Power of sequential protocols in hidden quantum channel discrimination
Quantum Physics
2023-04-06 v1
Abstract
In many natural and engineered systems, unknown quantum channels act on a subsystem that cannot be directly controlled and measured, but is instead learned through a controllable subsystem that weakly interacts with it. We study quantum channel discrimination (QCD) under these restrictions, which we call hidden system QCD (HQCD). We find that sequential protocols achieve perfect discrimination and saturate the Heisenberg limit. In contrast, depth-1 parallel and multi-shot protocols cannot solve HQCD. This suggests that sequential protocols are superior in experimentally realistic situations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2304.02053,
title = {Power of sequential protocols in hidden quantum channel discrimination},
author = {Sho Sugiura and Arkopal Dutt and William J. Munro and Sina Zeytinoğlu and Isaac L. Chuang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02053},
year = {2023}
}
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18pages, 10figures