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An alternative quantum fidelity for mixed states of qudits

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We give an alternative definition of quantum fidelity for two density operators on qudits in terms of the Hilbert-Schmidt inner product between them and their purity. It can be regarded as the well-defined operator fidelity for the two operators and satisfies all Jozsa's four axioms up to a normalization factor. One desire property is that it is not computationally demanding.

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@article{arxiv.0807.1781,
  title  = {An alternative quantum fidelity for mixed states of qudits},
  author = {Xiaoguang Wang and Chang-Shui Yu and X. X. Yi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1781},
  year   = {2009}
}

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