{
  "id": "quant-ph/0004045",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2000-04-10T15:56:40.000Z",
  "updated": "2000-04-10T15:56:40.000Z",
  "title": "Relative entropy in quantum information theory",
  "authors": [
    "Benjamin Schumacher",
    "Michael D. Westmoreland"
  ],
  "comment": "36 pages; submitted for proceedings of the AMS special session on Quantum Information and Computation (January, 2000)",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We review the properties of the quantum relative entropy function and discuss its application to problems of classical and quantum information transfer and to quantum data compression. We then outline further uses of relative entropy to quantify quantum entanglement and analyze its manipulation.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2000-04-10T15:56:40.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum information theory",
      "quantum relative entropy function",
      "quantum information transfer",
      "quantum data compression",
      "quantify quantum entanglement"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 36,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2000quant.ph..4045S"
    }
  }
}