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Quantum hypothesis testing and sufficient subalgebras

Quantum Physics 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

We introduce a new notion of a sufficient subalgebra for quantum states: a subalgebra is 2- sufficient for a pair of states {ρ0,ρ1}\{\rho_0,\rho_1\} if it contains all Bayes optimal tests of ρ0\rho_0 against ρ1\rho_1. In classical statistics, this corresponds to the usual definition of sufficiency. We show this correspondence in the quantum setting for some special cases. Furthermore, we show that sufficiency is equivalent to 2 - sufficiency, if the latter is required for {ρ0n,ρ1}\{\rho_0^{\otimes n},\rho_1^{\otimes}\}, for all nn.

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@article{arxiv.0810.4045,
  title  = {Quantum hypothesis testing and sufficient subalgebras},
  author = {Anna Jencova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.4045},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages

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