title: Optimal remote state preparation.
abstract: We prove that it is possible to remotely prepare an ensemble of noncommuting mixed states using communication equal to the Holevo information for this ensemble. This remote preparation scheme may be used to convert between different ensembles of mixed states in an asymptotically lossless way, analogous to concentration and dilution for entanglement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Centre for Advanced Computing--Algorithms and Cryptography, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia.
authors.forename: Dominic W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.forename: Barry C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Sanders