• DocumentCode
    2237560
  • Title

    Three approaches to the quantitative definition of information in an individual pure quantum state

  • Author

    Vitanyi, Paul

  • Author_Institution
    Amsterdam Univ., Netherlands
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    263
  • Lastpage
    270
  • Abstract
    In analogy of classical Kolmogorov complexity we develop a theory of the algorithmic information in bits contained in any one of continuously many pure quantum states: quantum Kolmogorov complexity. Classical Kolmogorov complexity coincides with the new quantum Kolmogorov complexity restricted to the classical domain. Quantum Kolmogorov complexity is upper bounded and can be effectively approximated from above. With high probability a quantum object is incompressible. There are two alternative approaches possible: to define the complexity as the length of the shortest qubit program that effectively describes the object, and to use classical descriptions with computable real parameters
  • Keywords
    Turing machines; computational complexity; algorithmic information; classical Kolmogorov complexity; computable real parameters; continuously many pure quantum states; individual pure quantum state; quantitative definition; quantum Kolmogorov complexity; shortest qubit program; Computational modeling; Electrical capacitance tomography; Length measurement; Quantum computing; Quantum mechanics; Turing machines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Complexity, 2000. Proceedings. 15th Annual IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Florence
  • ISSN
    1093-0159
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0674-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCC.2000.856757
  • Filename
    856757