Pretty simple bounds on quantum state discrimination
Quantum Physics
2019-11-11 v2
Abstract
We show that the quantum measurement known as the pretty good measurement can be used to identify an unknown quantum state picked from any set of mixed states that have pairwise fidelities upper-bounded by a constant below 1, given copies of the unknown state, with high success probability in the worst case. If the unknown state is promised to be pure, there is an explicit measurement strategy which solves this worst-case quantum state discrimination problem with copies, where is the Gram matrix of the states.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.08312,
title = {Pretty simple bounds on quantum state discrimination},
author = {Ashley Montanaro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.08312},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
6 pages; v2: added a reference