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In the information age, our daily lives are becoming increasingly digitalized, and they are stored in magnetic memories, processed by computers, and transmitted via optical fibers and electromagnetic waves. Yet our world is quantum in nature. Therefore, a natural question is how to store, process and transmit the information encoded in qubits. These questions are addressed by quantum information theory. Quantum computation, as introduced in the previous chapter, explores how to process quantum information. Quantum communication is another important branch of quantum information science, where quantum entanglement has been successfully exploited to achieve quantum teleportation for transferring quantum information.
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Wu, B. (2023). Quantum Communication. In: Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7626-1_10
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