The Information Content of Systems in General Physical Theories

What kind of object is a quantum state? Is it an object that encodes an exponentially growing amount of information (in the size of the system) or more akin to a probability distribution? It turns out that these questions are sensitive to what we do with the information. For example, Holevo's b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ciarán M. Lee, Matty J. Hoban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2016-06-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06801v1