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We discuss the disturbance by measurements which unambiguously discriminate between given candidate states. We prove that such an optimal measurement necessarily changes distinguishable states indistinguishable when the inconclusive outcome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Ryuitiro Kawakubo , Tatsuhiko Koike

There are fundamental limits to the accuracy with which one can determine the state of a quantum system. I give an overview of the main approaches to quantum state discrimination. Several strategies exist. In quantum hypothesis testing, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Anthony Chefles

A core principle of quantum theory is that non-orthogonal quantum states cannot be perfectly distinguished with single-shot measurements. However, it is possible to exclude a subset of non-orthogonal states without error in certain…

In pure-state tomography, the concept of unique determinedness (UD) -- the ability to uniquely determine pure states from measurement results -- is crucial. This study presents a new variational approach to examining UD, offering a robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Chao Zhang , Xuanran Zhu , Bei Zeng

The notion of antidistinguishability captures the possibility of ruling out certain alternatives in a quantum experiment without identifying the actual outcome. Although extensively studied for quantum states, the antidistinguishability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Satyaki Manna , Anandamay Das Bhowmik

The quantum analogue of the equality function, known as the quantum state identity problem, is the task of deciding whether $n$ unknown quantum states are equal or unequal, given the promise that all states are either pairwise orthogonal or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Harry Buhrman , Dmitry Grinko , Philip Verduyn Lunel , Jordi Weggemans

Pattern recognition is a central topic in Learning Theory with numerous applications such as voice and text recognition, image analysis, computer diagnosis. The statistical set-up in classification is the following: we are given an i.i.d.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 Madalin Guta , Wojciech Kotlowski

We consider the problem of a state determination for a two-level quantum system which can be in one of two nonorthogonal mixed states. It is proved that for the two independent identical systems the optimal combined measurement (which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Allahverdyan , D. B. Saakian

The problem of quantum state classification asks how accurately one can identify an unknown quantum state that is promised to be drawn from a known set of pure states. In this work, we introduce the notion of $k$-learnability, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Nathaniel Johnston , Benjamin Lovitz , Vincent Russo , Jamie Sikora

State discrimination is a useful test problem with which to clarify the power and limitations of different classes of measurement. We consider the problem of discriminating between given states of a bi-partite quantum system via sequential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Sarah Croke , Stephen M. Barnett , Graeme Weir

We investigate the optimal approximation to triple incompatible quantum measurements within the framework of statistical distance and joint measurability. According to the lower bound of the uncertainty inequality presented in [Physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Hui-Hui Qin , Shao-Ming Fei

We consider unambiguous discrimination of two separable bipartite states, one being pure and the other being a rank-2 mixed state. There is a gap between the optimal success probability under global measurements and the one achieved by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-21 Masato Koashi , Fumitaka Takenaga , Takashi Yamamoto , Nobuyuki Imoto

In this paper we consider the optimal discrimination of two mixed qubit states for a measurement that allows a fixed rate of inconclusive results(FRIR). Our strategy for the problem is to transform the FRIR of two qubit states into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Donghoon Ha , Younghun Kwon

The discrimination of quantum operations has long been an intriguing challenge, with theoretical research significantly advancing our understanding of the quantum features in discriminating quantum objects. This challenge is closely related…

Error probability is a popular and well-studied optimization criterion in discriminating non-orthogonal quantum states. It captures the threat from an adversary who can only query the actual state once. However, when the adversary is able…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 Weien Chen , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang , Yuan Feng

Dense coding with non-maximally entangled states has been investigated in many different scenarios. We revisit this problem for protocols adopting the standard encoding scheme. In this case, the set of possible classical messages cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Roger Alfredo Kögler , Leonardo Neves

We propose an optimal discrimination scheme for a case of four linearly independent nonorthogonal symmetric quantum states, based on linear optics only. The probability of discrimination is in agreement with the optimal probability for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Jiménez , X. Sánchez-Lozano , A. Delgado , C. Saavedra

We investigate a state discrimination problem which interpolates minimum-error and unambiguous discrimination by introducing a margin for the probability of error. We closely analyze discrimination of two pure states with general occurrence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Sugimoto , T. Hashimoto , M. Horibe , A. Hayashi

Quantum state discrimination is a central problem in quantum measurement theory, with applications spanning from quantum communication to computation. Typical measurement paradigms for state discrimination involve a minimum probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 M. T. DiMario , F. E. Becerra