Quantum capacity is properly defined without encodings

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 3496-3501

  Barnum, Howard ^a   Smolin, John A ^b   Terhal, Barbara M ^c  

^a HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000596586     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.3496     Document Type: Article

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