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If the system is known to be in one of two non-orthogonal quantum states, $|\psi_1\rangle$ or $|\psi_2\rangle$, it is not possible to discriminate them by a single measurement due to the unitarity constraint. In a regular Hermitian quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Yaroslav Balytskyi , Manohar Raavi , Anatoliy Pinchuk , Sang-Yoon Chang

The minimal Bures distance of a quantum state of a bipartite system AB to the set of classical states for subsystem A defines a geometric measure of quantum discord. When A is a qubit, we show that this geometric quantum discord is given in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Dominique Spehner , Miguel Orszag

Quantum mechanics can produce correlations that are stronger than classically allowed. This stronger-than-classical correlation is the "fuel" for quantum computing. In 1991 Schumacher forwarded a beautiful geometric approach, analogous to…

This paper treats the isometries of metric spaces of quantum states. We consider two metrics on the set all quantum states, namely the Bures metric and the one which comes from the trace-norm. We describe all the corresponding (nonlinear)…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Lajos Molnar , Werner Timmermann

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

The non-Hermitian skin effect is nonreciprocity-induced localization phenomena in which a macroscopic number of eigenstates accumulate anomalously at the boundary, accompanied by the extreme sensitivity to boundary conditions. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Kohei Kawabata

Bosonic Gaussian thermal states form a fundamental class of states in quantum information science. This paper explores the information geometry of these states, focusing on characterizing the distance between two nearby states and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Zixin Huang , Mark M. Wilde

Sensing and imaging are among the most important applications of quantum information science. To investigate their fundamental limits and the possibility of quantum enhancements, researchers have for decades relied on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Xiao-Ming Lu , Mankei Tsang

A novel link between monotone metric tensors and actions of suitable extensions of the unitary group on the manifold of faithful quantum states is presented here by means of three illustrative examples related with the Bures-Helstrom metric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Florio M. Ciaglia

In this thesis we study the problem of unambiguously discriminating two mixed quantum states. We first present reduction theorems for optimal unambiguous discrimination of two generic density matrices. We show that this problem can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Raynal

In quantum metrology, one of the major applications of quantum technologies, the ultimate precision of estimating an unknown parameter is often stated in terms of the Cram\'er-Rao bound. Yet, the latter is no longer guaranteed to carry an…

Inequalities of Mandelstam-Tamm and Margolus-Levitin type provide lower bounds on the time it takes for a quantum system to evolve from one state into another. Knowledge of such bounds, called quantum speed limits, is of utmost importance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-08 Ole Andersson , Hoshang Heydari

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

It is well established that unpolarized light is invariant with respect to any SU(2) polarization transformation. This requirement fully characterizes the set of density matrices representing unpolarized states. We introduce the degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Klimov , L. L. Sanchez-Soto , E. C. Yustas , J. Soderholm , G. Bjork

This post is the author's doctoral dissertation back in 1997. The dissertation covers following four kinds of problems: First, it studies achievable Cramer-Rao type bounds of various multi-parameter pure state models. Second, it relates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Keiji Matsumoto

The quantum state overlap is the textbook measure of the difference between two quantum states. Yet, it is inadequate to compare the complex configurations of many-body systems. The problem is inherited by the widely employed quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Davide Girolami , Fabio Anzà

In quantum metrology, it is widely believed that the quantum Cramer-Rao bound is attainable bound while it is not true. In order to clarify this point, we explain why the quantum Cramer-Rao bound cannot be attained geometrically. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 Masahito Hayashi , Sai Vinjanampathy , L. C. Kwek

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) are a class of neural networks that have been successfully employed as a variational ansatz for quantum many-body wave functions. Here, we develop an analytic method to study quantum many-body spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Xiao-Qi Sun , Tamra Nebabu , Xizhi Han , Michael O. Flynn , Xiao-Liang Qi

We generalize the approach by Braunstein and Caves [Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 3439 (1994)] to quantum multi-parameter estimation with general states. We derive a matrix bound of the classical Fisher information matrix due to each measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-10 Jing Yang , Shengshi Pang , Yiyu Zhou , Andrew N. Jordan

We derive an asymptotic lower bound on the Bayes risk when N identical quantum systems whose state depends on a vector of unknown parameters are jointly measured in an arbitrary way and the parameters of interest estimated on the basis of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Richard D. Gill