Reliable quantum source compression

A quantum source-compression scheme has encoding and decoding quantum channels with compressed space ${\mathcal{K}}_n$ and rate ${\mathrm{limsup}}_n{n}^{-1}{\log }_2\dim {\mathcal{K}}_n$. For a pure-state source ensemble, average reliability means that the mean squared quantum fidelity after decoding tends to one. A stronger coherent criterion is $F_e({\pi }^{\otimes n},{\mathcal{D}}_n\circ {\mathcal{E}}_n)\to 1$, where entanglement fidelity also tests a purification reference. Encoding the quantum typical subspace achieves both criteria above $S(\pi )$. Schumacher's original quantum coding paper establishes quantum source coding.