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While the exact separability probability of 8/33 for two-qubit states under the Hilbert-Schmidt measure has been reported by Huong and Khoi [\href{https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad8493}{J.Phys.A:Math.Theor.{\bf57}, 445304(2024)}],…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Lin Zhang , Xiaohan Jiang , Bing Xie

The notion of distance in Hilbert space is relevant in many scenarios. In particular, distances between quantum states play a central role in quantum information theory. An appropriate measure of distance is the quantum Jensen Shannon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 A. P. Majtey , A. Borras , M. Casas , P. W. Lamberti , A. Plastino

In this article we extend results from our previous work [Bendersky, de la Torre, Senno, Figueira and Ac\'in, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230406 (2016)] by providing a protocol to distinguish in finite time and with arbitrarily high success…

A natural measure in the space of density matrices describing N-dimensional quantum systems is proposed. We study the probability P that a quantum state chosen randomly with respect to the natural measure is not entangled (is separable). We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karol Zyczkowski , Pawel Horodecki , Anna Sanpera , Maciej Lewenstein

The goal of this paper is to calculate exactly the average of uncertainty-product of two bounded observables and to establish its typicality over the whole set of finite dimensional quantum pure states. Here we use the uniform ensembles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Lin Zhang , Jiamei Wang

Probability distributions play a central role in quantum mechanics, and even more so in quantum optics with its rich diversity of theoretically conceivable and experimentally accessible quantum states of light. Quantifiers that compare two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Soumyabrata Paul , V. Balakrishnan , S. Ramanan , S. Lakshmibala

We study the problem of testing identity of a collection of unknown quantum states given sample access to this collection, each state appearing with some known probability. We show that for a collection of $d$-dimensional quantum states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Marco Fanizza , Raffaele Salvia , Vittorio Giovannetti

Hilbert-Schmidt distance is one of the prominent distance measures in quantum information theory which finds applications in diverse problems, such as construction of entanglement witnesses, quantum algorithms in machine learning, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Santosh Kumar

We demonstrate an optical receiver that achieves the quantum Chernoff bound for discriminating coherent states from thermal states in the multi-copy scenario. In contrast, we find that repeated use of the receiver approaching the Helstrom…

We analyse the problem of finding sets of quantum states that can be deterministically discriminated. From a geometric point of view this problem is equivalent to that of embedding a simplex of points whose distances are maximal with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-09 D. Markham , J. A. Miszczak , Z. Puchala , K. Zyczkowski

The minimum error probability for distinguishing between two quantum states is bounded by the Helstrom limit, derived under the assumption that measurement strategies are restricted to positive operator-valued measurements. We explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Swati Choudhary , Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Ujjwal Sen

We provide a general steady-state diffusion approximation result which bounds the Wasserstein distance between the reversible measure $\mu$ of a diffusion process and the measure $\nu$ of an approximating Markov chain. Our result is…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Thomas Bonis

The distinguishability between two quantum states can be defined in terms of their trace distance. The operational meaning of this definition involves a maximization over measurement projectors. Here we introduce an alternative definition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Adrian A. Budini , Ruynet L. de Matos Filho , Marcelo F. Santos

We consider a quantum version of the famous low-rank approximation problem. Specifically, we consider the distance $D(\rho,\sigma)$ between two normalized quantum states, $\rho$ and $\sigma$, where the rank of $\sigma$ is constrained to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Nic Ezzell , Zoë Holmes , Patrick J. Coles

We study the discrimination of N mixed quantum states in an optimal measurement that maximizes the probability of correct results while the probability of inconclusive results is fixed at a given value. After considering the discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ulrike Herzog

Compact expressions for the average subentropy and coherence are obtained for random mixed states that are generated via various probability measures. Surprisingly, our results show that the average subentropy of random mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Lin Zhang , Uttam Singh , Arun Kumar Pati

We report on experimental measurement of the Hilbert-Schmidt distance between two two-qubit states by many-particle interference. We demonstrate that our three-step method for measuring distances in Hilbert space is far less complex than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Vojtěch Trávníček , Karol Bartkiewicz , Antonín Černoch , Karel Lemr

This paper, mostly expository in nature, surveys four measures of distinguishability for quantum-mechanical states. This is done from the point of view of the cryptographer with a particular eye on applications in quantum cryptography. Each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher A. Fuchs , Jeroen van de Graaf

We consider the task of distinguishing whether a quantum system is prepared in a state from one of several sets of quantum states. Assuming their convexity and stability under tensor product, we prove that the optimal error exponent for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Kun Fang , Masahito Hayashi

We consider a problem in random matrix theory that is inspired by quantum information theory: determining the largest eigenvalue of a sum of p random product states in (C^d)^{otimes k}, where k and p/d^k are fixed while d grows. When k=1,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 Andris Ambainis , Aram W. Harrow , Matthew B. Hastings