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A Mini-Introduction To Information Theory

Edward Witten

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Abstract

This article consists of a very short introduction to classical and quantum information theory. Basic properties of the classical Shannon entropy and the quantum von Neumann entropy are described, along with related concepts such as classical and quantum relative entropy, conditional entropy, and mutual information. A few more detailed topics are considered in the quantum case.

arXiv comments
39 pp, various small improvements in this version
Journal reference
Rivista Nuovo Cimento (2020)
DOI
doi:10.1007/s40766-020-00004-5
Subjects
hep-thHigh Energy Physics, Theory quant-phQuantum Physics

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