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The field of quantum metrology seeks to apply quantum techniques and/or resources to classical sensing approaches with the goal of enhancing the precision in the estimation of a parameter beyond what can be achieved with classical…

We study two-state discrimination in chaotic quantum systems. Assuming that one of two $N$-qubit pure states has been randomly selected, the probability to correctly identify the selected state from an optimally chosen experiment involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Joaquim Telles de Miranda , Tobias Micklitz

We elucidate the Bures metric in quantum state space near a rank-changing point of the density matrix and show contrasting behavior for two-level ($N=2$) systems versus higher-level systems. Due to the smooth pure-state boundary for $N=2$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yu-Huan Huang , Xu-Yang Hou , Guo Hao , Chih-Chun Chien

In order to characterize quantum states within the context of information geometry, we propose a generalization of the Gaussian model, which we called the Hermite-Gaussian model. We obtain the Fisher-Rao metric and the scalar curvature for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Marcelo Losada , Ignacio S. Gomez , Federico Holik

It is a central fact in quantum mechanics that non-orthogonal states cannot be distinguished perfectly. This property ensures the security of quantum key distribution. It is therefore an important task in quantum communication to design and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Lorcan O. Conlon , Falk Eilenberger , Ping Koy Lam , Syed M. Assad

Thermometry is a fundamental parameter estimation problem which is crucial in the development process of natural sciences. One way to solve this problem is to the extensive used local thermometry theory, which makes use of the classical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Xuan Rao , Huan Zhang , Liqing Huang , Mengmeng Luo , Yuetao Chen , Qiang Ma , Shaoyan Gao

We study how useful random states are for quantum metrology, i.e., surpass the classical limits imposed on precision in the canonical phase estimation scenario. First, we prove that random pure states drawn from the Hilbert space of…

Uncertainty relations (URs) like the Heisenberg-Robertson or the time-energy UR are often considered to be hallmarks of quantum theory. Here, a simple derivation of these URs is presented based on a single classical inequality from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Florian Fröwis , Roman Schmied , Nicolas Gisin

Distinguishing physical processes is one of the fundamental problems in quantum physics. Although distinguishability of quantum preparations and quantum channels have been studied considerably, distinguishability of quantum measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Chandan Datta , Tanmoy Biswas , Debashis Saha , Remigiusz Augusiak

We investigate the ability of a quantum measurement device to discriminate two states or, generically, two hypothesis. In full generality, the measurement can be performed a number $n$ of times, and arbitrary pre-processing of the states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Christoph Hirche , Masahito Hayashi , Emilio Bagan , John Calsamiglia

We consider two different optimized measurement strategies for the discrimination of nonorthogonal quantum states. The first is conclusive discrimination with a minimum probability of inferring an erroneous result, and the second is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ulrike Herzog , Janos A. Bergou

We study the interior of a Schwarzschild Black-Hole (B-H) using Relativistic Quantum Geometry described in \cite{rb} and \cite{rb1}. We found discrete energy levels for a scalar field from a polynomial condition for Heun Confluent functions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-16 Juan Ignacio Musmarra , Mauricio Bellini , Mariano Anabitarte

We investigate the performance of discrimination strategy in the comparison task of known quantum states. In the discrimination strategy, one infers whether or not two quantum systems are in the same state on the basis of the outcomes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 A. Hayashi , T. Hashimoto , M. Horibe

Quantum metrology explores quantum effects to improve the measurement accuracy of some physical quantities beyond the classical limit. However, due to the interaction between the system and the environment, the decoherence can significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Cheng-Ge Liu , Cong-Wei Lu , Na-Na Zhang , Qing Ai

Quantum entanglement does not necessarily imply Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering. We identify a \emph{boundary mechanism} that closes this gap when an entangled state meets the boundary of the trusted state space in a nondegenerate way. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yu-Xuan Zhang , Jing-Ling Chen

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) reveals local geometric properties and associated topological information of quantum states. Here a generalization of the QGT to mixed quantum states at finite temperatures based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Zheng Zhou , Xu-Yang Hou , Xin Wang , Jia-Chen Tang , Hao Guo , Chih-Chun Chien

A core problem in communications is the optimal discrimination of binary-phase-shift-keyed (BPSK) signals. A longstanding goal has been to reach the fundamental quantum limit, known as the Helstrom bound, for BPSK signals encoded in…

Particle distinguishability is a significant challenge for quantum technologies, in particular photonics where the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect clearly demonstrates it is detrimental to quantum interference. We take a representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Stasja Stanisic , Peter S. Turner

Geometric quantum mechanics, through its differential-geometric underpinning, provides additional tools of analysis and interpretation that bring quantum mechanics closer to classical mechanics: state spaces in both are equipped with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Fabio Anza , James P. Crutchfield

We demonstrate how to discriminate two non-orthogonal, entangled quantum state which are slightly different from each other by using pseudo-Hermitian system. The positive definite metric operator which makes the pseudo-Hermitian systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ananya Ghatak , Bhabani Prasad Mandal