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Programming the Kennedy Receiver for Capacity Maximization versus Minimizing One-shot Error Probability

Quantum Physics 2024-07-22 v3 Signal Processing Computation

Abstract

We find the capacity attained by the Kennedy receiver for coherent-state BPSK when the symbol prior p and pre-detection displacement are optimized. The optimal displacement is different than what minimizes error probability for single-shot BPSK state discrimination.

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@article{arxiv.2002.09275,
  title  = {Programming the Kennedy Receiver for Capacity Maximization versus Minimizing One-shot Error Probability},
  author = {Rahul Bhadani and Michael Grace and Ivan B. Djordjevic and Jonathan Sprinkle and Saikat Guha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09275},
  year   = {2024}
}

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