We study our first cryptographic tasks: secure encryption of a quantum state. We describe the classical one-time pad and present its quantum extension, the quantum one-time pad, which achieves perfectly secure quantum encryption. Before studying this task, we extend the mathematical formalism introduced in Chapter 1 by studying density matrices, general measurements on quantum states, and the partial trace operation.
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