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Sequential methods for quantum hypothesis testing offer significant advantages over fixed-length approaches, which rely on a predefined number of state copies. Despite their potential, these methods remain underexplored for unambiguous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Jordi Pérez-Guijarro , Alba Pagès-Zamora , Javier R. Fonollosa

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory, which refers to a class of techniques to identify a specific quantum state through a positive operator-valued measure. In this work, we investigate how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hyunho Cha , Jungwoo Lee

The task of state discrimination for a set of mutually orthogonal pure states is trivial if one has access to the corresponding sharp (projection-valued) measurement, but what if we are restricted to an unsharp measurement? Given that any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Tom Bullock , Teiko Heinosaari

We give a lower bound on the probability of error in quantum state discrimination. The bound is a weighted sum of the pairwise fidelities of the states to be distinguished.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Ashley Montanaro

Using the necessary and sufficient conditions, minimum error discrimination among two sets of similarity transformed equiprobable quantum qudit states is investigated. In the case that the unitary operators are generating sets of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 M. A. Jafarizadeh , Y. Mazhari Khiavi , Y. Akbari Kourbolagh

The problem of quantum state filtering consists of determining whether an unknown quantum state, which is chosen from a known set of states, is either a particular, specified state, or not. We consider this problem for the case that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Janos A. Bergou , Ulrike Herzog , Mark Hillery

We show a geometric formulation for minimum-error discrimination of qubit states, that can be applied to arbitrary sets of qubit states given with arbitrary a priori probabilities. In particular, when qubit states are given with equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joonwoo Bae , Won-Young Hwang

The ability to uniquely identify a quantum state is integral to quantum science, but for non-orthogonal states, quantum mechanics precludes deterministic, error-free discrimination. However, using the non-deterministic protocol of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Megan Agnew , Eliot Bolduc , Kevin J. Resch , Sonja Franke-Arnold , Jonathan Leach

We consider a state discrimination problem which deals with settings of minimum-error and unambiguous discrimination systematically by introducing a margin for the probability of an incorrect guess. We analyze discrimination of three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 H. Sugimoto , Y. Taninaka , A. Hayashi

Two types of errors can occur when discriminating pairs of quantum states. Asymmetric state discrimination involves minimizing the probability of one type of error, subject to a constraint on the other. We give explicit expressions bounding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Jason L. Pereira , Leonardo Banchi , Stefano Pirandola

Roa et al. showed that quantum state discrimination between two nonorthogonal quantum states does not require quantum entanglement but quantum dissonance only. We find that quantum coherence can also be utilized for unambiguous quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 Sunho Kim , Longsuo Li , Asutosh Kumar , Chunhe Xiong , Sreetama Das , Ujjwal Sen , Arun Kumar Pati , Junde Wu

As quantum technologies advance, the ability to generate increasingly large quantum states has experienced rapid development. In this context, the verification and estimation of large entangled systems represents one of the main challenges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Joshua Morris , Valeria Saggio , Aleksandra Gočanin , Borivoje Dakić

We study an optimum measurement for quantum state discrimination, which maximizes the probability of correct results when the probability of inconclusive results is fixed at a given value. The measurement describes minimum-error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-26 Ulrike Herzog

In the changepoint problem, we determine when the distribution observed has changed to another one. We expand this problem to the quantum case where copies of an unknown pure state are being distributed. We study the fundamental case, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Daiki Akimoto , Masahito Hayashi

The discrimination of any pair of unknown quantum states is performed by devices processing three parts of inputs: copies of the pair of unknown states we want to discriminate are respectively stored in two program systems and copies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Bing He , János A. Bergou

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

This work investigates which sets of quantum states give rise to the highest achievable success probability in minimum-error state discrimination if multiple copies of the unknown state are given. Specifically, we consider uniformly…

Quantum state elimination measurements tell us what states a quantum system does not have. This is different from state discrimination, where one tries to determine what the state of a quantum system is, rather than what it is not. Apart…

In this paper, we consider the problem of unambiguous discrimination between a set of mixed quantum states. We first divide the density matrix of each mixed state into two parts by the fact that it comes from ensemble of pure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chi Zhang , Yuan Feng , Ming Sheng Ying

We address the problem of distinguishing among a finite collection of quantum states, when the states are not entirely known. For completely specified states, necessary and sufficient conditions on a quantum measurement minimizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Noam Elron , Yonina C. Eldar