I am reading Samuel L. Braunstein, Arun K. Pati, Quantum information cannot be completely hidden in correlations: implications for the black-hole information paradox. I am puzzling over the derivation in Section Perfect hiding processes.
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The authors have already assumed from the outset that only the ancilla A and thus its orthornomal basis Ak's depend on ψ. Does it not already imply their conclusion "any information about |ψ⟩ that is encoded globally is in fact encoded entirely within the ancilla. No information about |ψ⟩ is encoded in system-ancilla correlations (nor, in fact, in system-system correlations)."? There is a statement preceding it stating that "We may swap |ψ⟩ with any other state in the ancilla using purely ancilla-local operations". But I do not see how and why this is necessary. Moreover, what would it be like to have "system-ancilla correlations"? Would it be for |k⟩ to depend on |ψ⟩?
- Does Equation (3) of the paper
α∗β⟨Al(ψ)|Ak(ψ⊥)⟩+β∗α⟨Al(ψ⊥)|Ak(ψ)⟩=0
come from the following requirements?
⟨Al(α|ψ⟩+β|ψ⊥⟩)|Ak(α|ψ⟩+β|ψ⊥⟩)⟩=0,
⟨Al(|ψ⟩)|Ak(|ψ⟩)⟩=⟨Al(|ψ⊥⟩)|Ak(|ψ⊥⟩)⟩=0.
If so, what is the rigorous rationale for Equations (3.1),(3.2)?