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arxiv 1805.11965 v5 pith:DKAHZTX3 submitted 2018-05-30 hep-th quant-ph

A Mini-Introduction To Information Theory

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This article consists of a very short introduction to classical and quantum information theory. Basic properties of the classical Shannon entropy and the quantum von Neumann entropy are described, along with related concepts such as classical and quantum relative entropy, conditional entropy, and mutual information. A few more detailed topics are considered in the quantum case.

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