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Sending classical information via noisy quantum channels

Physical Review A · 1997 · Vol. 56(1) · pp. 131–138

Benjamin Schumacher✉(Kenyon College)Michael Westmoreland(Denison University)

Abstract

This paper extends previous results about the classical information capacity of a noiseless quantum-mechanical communication channel to situations in which the final signal states are mixed states, that is, to channels with noise.

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