Lossless quantum data compression with exponential penalization: an operational interpretation of the quantum Rényi entropy

Based on the problem of quantum data compression in a lossless way, we present here an operational interpretation for the family of quantum Rényi entropies. In order to do this, we appeal to a very general quantum encoding scheme that satisfies a quantum version of the Kraft-McMillan inequality. The...

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Autores: Bellomo, Guido, Bosyk, Gustavo Martín, Holik, Federico Hernán, Zozor, Steeve
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/78694
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/78694
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Física
Quantum information
Qubits
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Sumario:Based on the problem of quantum data compression in a lossless way, we present here an operational interpretation for the family of quantum Rényi entropies. In order to do this, we appeal to a very general quantum encoding scheme that satisfies a quantum version of the Kraft-McMillan inequality. Then, in the standard situation, where one is intended to minimize the usual average length of the quantum codewords, we recover the known results, namely that the von Neumann entropy of the source bounds the average length of the optimal codes. Otherwise, we show that by invoking an exponential average length, related to an exponential penalization over large codewords, the quantum Rényi entropies arise as the natural quantities relating the optimal encoding schemes with the source description, playing an analogous role to that of von Neumann entropy.