Quantum State Discrimination as Bayesian Experimental Design
Quantum Physics
2020-06-30 v2
Abstract
We show that quantum state discrimination sits neatly in the framework of Bayesian experimental design. In this setting, the two main branches of quantum state discrimination (minimal error and maximal confidence) simply correspond to two different utility functions. This view allows straightforward extensions and mixing of different discrimination tasks by examining the utility functions, and to describe multi-objective discrimination tasks. In addition, the probability of success and the total confidence are resource monotones quantifying the usefulness of measurements. We give general conditions under which utility functions lead to resource monotones in the resource theory of quantum measurement.
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@article{arxiv.1906.09737,
title = {Quantum State Discrimination as Bayesian Experimental Design},
author = {Thomas Guff and Yuval R. Sanders and Nathan A. McMahon and Alexei Gilchrist},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09737},
year = {2020}
}
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13 pages, 1 figure