Reversible transformations from pure to mixed states and the unique measure of information

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 9-

  Horodecki, Michał ^a   Horodecki, Paweł ^a   Oppenheim, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 85037210966     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.062104     Document Type: Article

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