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In the problem of quantum state discrimination, one has to determine by measurements the state of a quantum system, based on the a priori side information that the true state is one of two given and completely known states, rho or sigma. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Koenraad M. R. Audenaert , Milan Mosonyi , Frank Verstraete

A fundamental task in quantum information is to approximate a pure quantum state in terms of sparse states or, for a bipartite system, states of bounded Schmidt rank. The optimal deterministic approximation in each case is straightforward,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Aram W. Harrow , Angus Lowe , Freek Witteveen

We investigate the generic aspects of quantum coherence guided by the concentration of measure phenomenon. We find the average relative entropy of coherence of pure quantum states sampled randomly from the uniform Haar measure and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Uttam Singh , Lin Zhang , Arun Kumar Pati

Topological and geometrical properties of the set of mixed quantum states in the N-dimensional Hilbert space are analysed. Assuming that the corresponding classical dynamics takes place on the sphere we use the vector SU(2) coherent states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Karol Zyczkowski , Wojciech Slomczynski

We consider the problem of detecting the true quantum state among r possible ones, based on measurements performed on n of copies of a finite dimensional quantum system. It is known that the exponent for the rate of decrease of the averaged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 Michael Nussbaum

Distinguishability theory is developed for quantum interference of the squeezed vacuum states on unitary linear interferometers. It is found that the entanglement of photon pairs over the Schmidt modes is one of the sources of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Valery Shchesnovich

When it comes to discriminating between two quantum states, trace distance is one of the well-known metrics used in quantum computation and quantum information theory. While there are several quantum algorithms for calculating the trace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Sanchita Ghosh , Anumita Mukhopadhyay , Anindita Bera , Prasenjit Deb , Shibdas Roy

We establish three impossibility results regarding our knowledge of the quantum state of the universe. Suppose the universal quantum state is a typical unit vector in a high-dimensional subspace $\mathscr{H}_0$ of Hilbert space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Eddy Keming Chen , Roderich Tumulka

Mixed state ensembles such as the Bures-Hall and Hilbert-Schmidt measure are probability distributions that characterise the statistical properties of random density matrices and can be used to determine the typical features of mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Harry J. D. Miller

The notion of distinguishability between quantum states has shown to be fundamental in the frame of quantum information theory. In this paper we present a new distinguishability criterium by using a information theoretic quantity: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 A. P. Majtey , P. W. Lamberti , M. T. Martin , A. Plastino

It is well known that random bipartite pure states are typically maximally entangled within an arbitrarily small error. Showing that the marginals of random bipartite pure states are typically extremely close to the maximally mixed state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Kaifeng Bu , Uttam Singh , Lin Zhang , Junde Wu

The trace distance between two quantum states, $\rho$ and $\sigma$, is an operationally meaningful quantity in quantum information theory. However, in general it is difficult to compute, involving the diagonalization of $\rho - \sigma$. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Patrick J. Coles , M. Cerezo , Lukasz Cincio

In quantum information processing, {using a receiver device to differentiate between two nonorthogonal states leads to a quantum error probability. The minimum possible error is} known as the Helstrom bound. In this work we study and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Evaldo M. F. Curado , Sofiane Faci , Jean-Pierre Gazeau , Diego Noguera

Continuous-variable quantum systems are central to quantum technologies, with Gaussian states playing a key role due to their broad applicability and simple description via first and second moments. Distinguishing Gaussian states requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Javier Martínez-Cifuentes , Nicolás Quesada

In this paper, we present a general framework to solve a fundamental problem in Random Matrix Theory (RMT), i.e., the problem of describing the joint distribution of eigenvalues of the sum $\bsA+\bsB$ of two independent random Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Lin Zhang , Yixin Jiang , Junde Wu

A quantum ensemble $\{(p_x, \rho_x)\}$ is a set of quantum states each occurring randomly with a given probability. Quantum ensembles are necessary to describe situations with incomplete a priori information, such as the output of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-30 Ognyan Oreshkov , John Calsamiglia

Motivated by the recent discovery of a quantum Chernoff theorem for asymptotic state discrimination, we investigate the distinguishability of two bipartite mixed states under the constraint of local operations and classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-16 William Matthews , Andreas Winter

Given a positive integer k, it is natural to ask for a formula for the distance between a given density matrix (i.e., mixed quantum state) and the set of density matrices of rank at most k. This problem has already been solved when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Nathaniel Johnston , Chi-Kwong Li

Given some observable H of a finite-dimensional quantum system, we investigate the typical properties of random quantum state vectors that have a fixed expectation value with respect to H. Under some some conditions on the spectrum, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-03 Markus Mueller , David Gross , Jens Eisert

The typicality approach and the Hilbert space averaging method as its technical manifestation are important concepts of quantum statistical mechanics. Extensively used for expectation values we extend them in this paper to transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Nico Hahn , Thomas Guhr , Daniel Waltner