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Information - Disturbance Tradeoff in the Estimation of a Unitary Transformation

Quantum Physics 2011-01-28 v2

Abstract

We address the problem of the information-disturbance trade-off associated to the estimation of a quantum transformation, and show how the extraction of information about the a black box causes a perturbation of the corresponding input-output evolution. In the case of a black box performing a unitary transformation, randomly distributed according to the invariant measure, we give a complete solution of the problem, deriving the optimal trade-off curve and presenting an explicit construction of the optimal quantum network.

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@article{arxiv.1006.5665,
  title  = {Information - Disturbance Tradeoff in the Estimation of a Unitary Transformation},
  author = {Alessandro Bisio and Giulio Chiribella and Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano and Paolo Perinotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.5665},
  year   = {2011}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures