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We establish a relationship between the correlations in a many-qubit mixed state and the minimum circuit depth needed for its preparation. If the mutual information between two subsystems exceeds the mutual information between one of those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Max McGinley , Samuel J. Garratt

The quantum relative entropy is frequently used as a distance, or distinguishability measure between two quantum states. In this paper we study the relation between this measure and a number of other measures used for that purpose,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. M. R. Audenaert , J. Eisert

The estimation of the density matrix of a $k$-level quantum system is studied when the parametrization is given by the real and imaginary part of the entries and they are estimated by independent measurements. It is established that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Petz , K. M. Hangos , A. Magyar

Quantum state discrimination underlies various applications in quantum information processing tasks. It essentially describes the distinguishability of quantum systems in different states, and the general process of extracting classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Joonwoo Bae , Leong-Chuan Kwek

We introduce a hierarchy of conditions necessarily satisfied by any distribution P(ab) representing the probabilities for two separate observers to obtain outcomes a and b when making local measurements on a shared quantum state. Each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 Miguel Navascues , Stefano Pironio , Antonio Acin

Bounds analogous to entropic uncertainty relations allow one to design practical tests to detect quantum entanglement by a collective measurement performed on several copies of the state analyzed. This approach, initially worked out for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Łukasz Rudnicki , Zbigniew Puchała , Paweł Horodecki , Karol Życzkowski

We describe an optimized, self-correcting procedure for the Bayesian inference of pure quantum states. By analyzing the history of measurement outcomes at each step, the procedure returns the most likely pure state, as well as the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

This paper gives a survey about quantum estimation. We also describes the relation between the quantum central limit theorem and the asymptotic bound of mean square error in quantum state estimation.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-18 Masahito Hayashi

We study the entanglement of a multipartite quantum state. An inequality between the bipartite concurrence and the multipartite concurrence is obtained. More effective lower and upper bounds of the multipartite concurrence are obtained. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ming Li , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

Hypothesis testing is a fundamental issue in statistical inference and has been a crucial element in the development of information sciences. The Chernoff bound gives the minimal Bayesian error probability when discriminating two hypotheses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Calsamiglia , R. Munoz-Tapia , Ll. Masanes , A. Acin , E. Bagan

Quantum fidelity is one of the most important measures of similarity between mixed quantum states. However, the usual formulation is cumbersome and hard to understand when encountering the first time. This work shows in a novel, elegant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Adrian Müller

Quantification of quantum entanglement plays a crucial role in the study of quantum information tasks. We present analytical lower bounds for both concurrence and 2-concurrence based on the correlation matrices of bipartite quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Zhi-Bo Chen , Shao-Ming Fei

We introduce sequential analysis in quantum information processing, by focusing on the fundamental task of quantum hypothesis testing. In particular our goal is to discriminate between two arbitrary quantum states with a prescribed error…

Multiple-copy state discrimination is a fundamental task in quantum information processing. If there are two, pure, non-orthogonal states then both local and collective schemes are known to reach the Helstrom bound, the maximum probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Kieran Flatt , Stephen M. Barnett , Sarah Croke

Variational quantum time evolution allows us to simulate the time dynamics of quantum systems with near-term compatible quantum circuits. Due to the variational nature of this method the accuracy of the simulation is a priori unknown. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Christa Zoufal , David Sutter , Stefan Woerner

We investigate the discrimination of pure-mixed (quantum filtering) and mixed-mixed states and compare their optimal success probability with the one for discriminating other pairs of pure states superposed by the vectors included in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 Jin-Hua Zhang , Fu-Lin Zhang , Zhi-Xi Wang , Hui Yang , Shao-Ming Fei

Quantum state discrimination, alongside its other applications, has recently found use as a tool for witnessing generalised contextuality. In this article, we derive noncontextuality inequalities for both conclusive and inconclusive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Kieran Flatt , Joonwoo Bae

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental information processing task that serves as a building block for numerous applications and provides implications at the foundational level. In this work, we consider minimum error discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Tim Achenbach , Leevi Leppäjärvi , Hanwool Lee , Teiko Heinosaari

When used in quantum state estimation, projections onto mutually unbiased bases have the ability to maximize information extraction per measurement and to minimize redundancy. We present the first experimental demonstration of quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Robert B. A. Adamson , Aephraim M. Steinberg

We consider decision problems on finite sets of hypotheses represented by pairwise different shift-invariant states on a quantum spin chain. The decision in favor of one of the hypotheses is based on outputs of generalized measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael Nussbaum , Arleta Szkola