Shannon theory for quantum systems and beyond: information compression for fermions

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Main Authors: Perinotti, Paolo, Tosini, Alessandro, Vaglini, Leonardo
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author Perinotti, Paolo
Tosini, Alessandro
Vaglini, Leonardo
author_facet Perinotti, Paolo
Tosini, Alessandro
Vaglini, Leonardo
contents We address the task of compression of fermionic quantum information. Due to the parity superselection rule, differently from the case of encoding of quantum information in qubit states, part of the information carried by fermionic systems is encoded in their delocalised correlations. As a consequence, reliability of a compression protocol must be assessed in a way that necessarily accounts also for the preservation of correlations. This implies that input/output fidelity is not a satisfactory figure of merit for fermionic compression schemes. We then discuss various aspects regarding the assessment of reliability of an encoding scheme, and show that entanglement fidelity in the fermionic case is capable of evaluating the preservation of correlations, thus revealing itself strictly stronger than input/output fidelity, unlike the qubit case. We then introduce a fermionic version of the source coding theorem showing that, as in the quantum case, the von Neumann entropy is the minimal rate for which a fermionic compression scheme exists, that is reliable according to the entanglement fidelity criterion.
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spellingShingle Shannon theory for quantum systems and beyond: information compression for fermions
Perinotti, Paolo
Tosini, Alessandro
Vaglini, Leonardo
Quantum Physics
We address the task of compression of fermionic quantum information. Due to the parity superselection rule, differently from the case of encoding of quantum information in qubit states, part of the information carried by fermionic systems is encoded in their delocalised correlations. As a consequence, reliability of a compression protocol must be assessed in a way that necessarily accounts also for the preservation of correlations. This implies that input/output fidelity is not a satisfactory figure of merit for fermionic compression schemes. We then discuss various aspects regarding the assessment of reliability of an encoding scheme, and show that entanglement fidelity in the fermionic case is capable of evaluating the preservation of correlations, thus revealing itself strictly stronger than input/output fidelity, unlike the qubit case. We then introduce a fermionic version of the source coding theorem showing that, as in the quantum case, the von Neumann entropy is the minimal rate for which a fermionic compression scheme exists, that is reliable according to the entanglement fidelity criterion.
title Shannon theory for quantum systems and beyond: information compression for fermions
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04964