Publication details
Efficient compression of unknown quantum information
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Year of publication | 2010 |
Type | Article in Periodical |
Magazine / Source | Physical Review A |
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Web | http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1764 |
Field | Informatics |
Keywords | Quantum information; compression |
Description | We propose a scheme for an exact efficient transformation of a tensor product state of many identically prepared qubits into a state of a logarithmically small number of qubits. Using a quadratic number of elementary quantum gates we transform N identically prepared qubits into a state, which is nontrivial only on the first log(N+1) qubits. This procedure might be useful for quantum memories, as only a small portion of the original qubits has to be stored. Another possible application is in communicating a direction encoded in a set of quantum states, as the compressed state provides a high-effective method for such an encoding. |
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