Information capacity of a quantum observable

  • Authors:
  • A. S. Holevo

  • Affiliations:
  • Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  • Venue:
  • Problems of Information Transmission
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we consider the classical capacities of quantum-classical channels corresponding to measurement of observables. Special attention is paid to the case of continuous observables. We give formulas for unassisted and entanglement-assisted classical capacities C and C ea and consider some explicitly solvable cases, which give simple examples of entanglement-breaking channels with C C ea. We also elaborate on the ensemble-observable duality to show that C ea for the measurement channel is related to the 驴-quantity for the dual ensemble in the same way as C is related to the accessible information. This provides both accessible information and the 驴-quantity for quantum ensembles dual to our examples.