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1/2010

Asymptotically optimal discrimination between multiple pure quantum states

Michael Nussbaum and Arleta Szkola

Abstract

We consider the decision problem between a finite number of states of a finite quantum system, when an arbitrary large number of copies of the system is available for measurements. We provide an upper bound on the asymptotic exponential decay of the averaged probability of rejecting the true state. It represents a generalized quantum Chernoff distance of a finite set of states. As our main result we prove that the bound is sharp in the case of pure states

Received:
Jan 11, 2010
Published:
Jan 11, 2010
MSC Codes:
81, 62
Keywords:
quantum state discrimination, quantum hypothesis testing, generalized quantum Chernoff distance

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2011 Repository Open Access
Michael Nussbaum and Arleta Szkoła

Asymptotically optimal discrimination between pure quantum states

In: Theory of quantum computation, communication, and cryptography : 5th conference, TQC 2010, Leeds, UK, April 13 - 15, 2010, revised selected papers / Wim van Dam... (eds.)
Berlin [u. a.] : Springer, 2011. - pp. 1-8
(Lecture notes in computer science ; 6519)