Coherent information

Coherent information is an entropy measure used in quantum information theory. It is a property of a quantum state ρ and a quantum channel ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {N}}}$; intuitively, it attempts to describe how much of the quantum information in the state will remain after the state goes through the channel. In this sense, it is intuitively similar to the mutual information of classical information theory. The coherent information is written ${\displaystyle I(\rho ,{\mathcal {N}})}$.