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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

In the task of discriminating between nonorthogonal quantum states from multiple copies, the key parameters are the error probability and the resources (number of copies) used. Previous studies have considered the task of minimizing the…

Quantum hypothesis testing (QHT) concerns the statistical inference of unknown quantum states. In the general setting of composite hypotheses, the goal of QHT is to determine whether an unknown quantum state belongs to one or another of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Matteo Zecchin , Osvaldo Simeone , Aaditya Ramdas

We consider sequential hypothesis testing between two quantum states using adaptive and non-adaptive strategies. In this setting, samples of an unknown state are requested sequentially and a decision to either continue or to accept one of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Yonglong Li , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Marco Tomamichel

We consider a quantum system that is being continuously monitored, giving rise to a measurement signal. From such a stream of data, information needs to be inferred about the underlying system's dynamics. Here we focus on hypothesis testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Giulio Gasbarri , Matias Bilkis , Elisabet Roda-Salichs , John Calsamiglia

There are fundamental limits to the accuracy with which one can determine the state of a quantum system. I give an overview of the main approaches to quantum state discrimination. Several strategies exist. In quantum hypothesis testing, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Anthony Chefles

We consider the problem of deciding whether a given state preparation, i.e., a source of quantum states, is accurate, namely produces states close to a target one within a prescribed threshold. We show that, when multiple measurements need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Weichao Liang , Francesco Ticozzi , Giuseppe Vallone

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental information processing task that serves as a building block for numerous applications and provides implications at the foundational level. In this work, we consider minimum error discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Tim Achenbach , Leevi Leppäjärvi , Hanwool Lee , Teiko Heinosaari

State discrimination is a useful test problem with which to clarify the power and limitations of different classes of measurement. We consider the problem of discriminating between given states of a bi-partite quantum system via sequential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Sarah Croke , Stephen M. Barnett , Graeme Weir

We investigate an advantage for information processing of ordering a set of states over making a global quantum processing with a fixed number of copies of coherent states. Suppose Alice has $N$ copies of one of two quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Esteban Martínez-Vargas

A key concept of quantum information theory is that accessing information encoded in a quantum system requires us to discriminate between several possible states the system could be in. A natural generalization of this problem, namely,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Tathagata Gupta , Shayeef Murshid , Vincent Russo , Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

Sequential quantum information processing may lie in the peaceful coexistence of no-go theorems on quantum operations, such as the no-cloning theorem, the monogamy of correlations, and the no-signalling principle. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Hanwool Lee , Kieran Flatt , Joonwoo Bae

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

This expository article gives an overview of the theory of hypothesis testing of quantum states in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. Optimal measurement strategy for testing binary quantum hypotheses, which result in minimum error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 J. Prabhu Tej , Syed Raunaq Ahmed , A. R. Usha Devi , A. K. Rajagopal

This paper investigates symmetric composite binary quantum hypothesis testing (QHT), where the goal is to determine which of two uncertainty sets contains an unknown quantum state. While asymptotic error exponents for this problem are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jacob Paul Simpson , Efstratios Palias , Sharu Theresa Jose

We study sequential state discrimination measurements performed on the same qubit by subsequent observers. Specifically, we focus on the case when the observers perform a kind of a minimum-error type state discriminating measurement where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Dov Fields , Árpad Várga , János A. Bergou

We investigate how to determine whether the states of a set of quantum systems are identical or not. This paper treats both error-free comparison, and comparison where errors in the result are allowed. Error-free comparison means that we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Igor Jex , Erika Andersson , Anthony Chefles

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

We study quantum state testing where the goal is to test whether $\rho=\rho_0\in\mathbb{C}^{d\times d}$ or $\|\rho-\rho_0\|_1>\varepsilon$, given $n$ copies of $\rho$ and a known state description $\rho_0$. In practice, not all measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Yuhan Liu , Jayadev Acharya

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental primitive in quantum statistics where one has to correctly identify the state of a system that is in one of two possible known states. A programmable discrimination machine performs this task…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Sentís , E. Bagan , J. Calsamiglia , R. Munoz-Tapia
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