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Quantum relative positioning in Hilbert space

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v3

Abstract

A new class of state transformations that are quantum mechanically prohibited is introduced. These can be seen as the generalization of the universal-NOT transformation which, for all pure inputs state of a given Hilbert space produces pure outputs whose projection on the original state is fixed to a value smaller than one. The case of not pure output states is also addressed. We give an application of these transformations in the context of separability criteria.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0502149,
  title  = {Quantum relative positioning in Hilbert space},
  author = {Vittorio Giovannetti and Rosario Fazio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0502149},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure; new material added: in particular we present an application of quantum movers in the context of separability criteria. Typos corrected. Phys. Rev. A, accepted for publication