The aim of this book is to develop "from the ground up" many of the major,
exciting, pre- and post-millenium developments in the general area of study
known as quantum Shannon theory. As such, we spend a significant amount of time
on quantum mechanics for quantum information theory (Part II), we give a
careful study of the important unit protocols of teleportation, super-dense
coding, and entanglement distribution (Part III), and we develop many of the
tools necessary for understanding information transmission or compression (Part
IV). Parts V and VI are the culmination of this book, where all of the tools
developed come into play for understanding many of the important results in
quantum Shannon theory.Comment: v8: 774 pages, 301 exercises, 81 figures, several corrections; this
draft, pre-publication copy is available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (see
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/), "Quantum Information
Theory, Second Edition" is available for purchase from Cambridge University
Pres