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This quarter we will be focusing on Quantum Information Theory.

Place: TBA

Schedule

Papers

General Background

From Classical to Quantum Shannon Theory - A thorough and up-to-date (2012) free textbook by Mark Wilde.

Video lectures by Thomas Cover on classical information theory.

Nielson and Chuang, Quantum Computing and Quantum Information: Part III

Quantum Information Theory

"The Wilde book reviews a lot of them, but here are some good papers. The last one is a real classic." - Aram

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0606225 The mother of all protocols: Restructuring quantum information's family tree Anura Abeyesinghe, Igor Devetak, Patrick Hayden, Andreas Winter

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0407049 Aspects of generic entanglement Patrick Hayden, Debbie W. Leung, Andreas Winter

http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4994 Weak Decoupling Duality and Quantum Identification Patrick Hayden, Andreas Winter

http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5537 Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem Charles H. Bennett, Igor Devetak, Aram W. Harrow, Peter W. Shor, Andreas Winter

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512247 Quantum state merging and negative information Michal Horodecki, Jonathan Oppenheim, Andreas Winter

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0012127 (just the appendix) Strong Converse for Identification via Quantum Channels R. Ahlswede, A. Winter

http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3019 Post-selection technique for quantum channels with applications to quantum cryptography Matthias Christandl, Robert Koenig, Renato Renner

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703069 Symmetry implies independence Renato Renner

http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1338 The operational meaning of min- and max-entropy Robert Koenig, Renato Renner, Christian Schaffner

http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0281 A Generalization of Quantum Stein's Lemma Fernando G.S.L. Brandao, Martin B. Plenio

http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4925 Hastings' additivity counterexample via Dvoretzky's theorem Guillaume Aubrun, Stanislaw Szarek, Elisabeth Werner

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309110 Secure key from bound entanglement Karol Horodecki, Michal Horodecki, Pawel Horodecki, Jonathan Oppenheim

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3007 From Low-Distortion Norm Embeddings to Explicit Uncertainty Relations and Efficient Information Locking Omar Fawzi, Patrick Hayden, Pranab Sen

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9604024 Mixed State Entanglement and Quantum Error Correction Charles H. Bennett, David P. DiVincenzo, John A. Smolin, William K. Wootters

Organizers

Organizer(1): Isaac Crosson

Organizer(2): Kamil Michnicki

Faculty Advisor: Aram Harrow