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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

Device-independent certification of quantum states enables the characterization of states within a device under minimal physical assumptions. A major problem in this regard is to certify quantum states using minimal resources. Aiming to…

In the present paper I formulate a framework that accommodates many unambiguous discrimination problems. I show that the prior information about any type of constituent (state, channel, or observable) allows us to reformulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Michal Sedlák

The problem of optimally discriminating between two completely unknown qubit states is generalized by allowing an error margin. It is visualized as a device---the programmable discriminator---with one data and two program ports, each fed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-11 G. Sentís , E. Bagan , J. Calsamiglia , R. Muñoz-Tapia

It is known that unambiguous discrimination among non-orthogonal but linearly independent quantum states is possible with a certain probability of success. Here, we consider a variant of that problem. Instead of discriminating among all of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuqing Sun , Janos A. Bergou , Mark Hillery

Quantum fidelity is a measure to quantify the closeness of two quantum states. In an operational sense, it is defined as the minimal overlap between the probability distributions of measurement outcomes and the minimum is taken over all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Changhun Oh , Changhyoup Lee , Leonardo Banchi , Su-Yong Lee , Carsten Rockstuhl , Hyunseok Jeong

In almost all quantum applications, one of the key steps is to verify that the fidelity of the prepared quantum state meets expectations. In this Letter, we propose a new approach solving this problem using machine-learning techniques.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Xiaoqian Zhang , Maolin Luo , Zhaodi Wen , Qin Feng , Shengshi Pang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaoqi Zhou

We first present a generalized criterion for maximally entangled states of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and in theory to arbitrary-number qubits. By this criterion, some known highly entangled multi-qubit states are examined and a new genuine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Xinwei Zha , Chenzhi Yuan , Yanpeng Zhang

Using the known necessary and sufficient conditions for minimum error discrimination (MED), first it is shown that a Helstrom family of ensembles is equivalent to these conditions and then by a convex combination of the initial states (the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. A. Jafarizadeh , R. Sufiani , Y. Mazhari

We investigate the optimal approximation to triple incompatible quantum measurements within the framework of statistical distance and joint measurability. According to the lower bound of the uncertainty inequality presented in [Physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Hui-Hui Qin , Shao-Ming Fei

We propose quantum devices that can realize probabilistically different projective measurements on a qubit. The desired measurement basis is selected by the quantum state of a program register. First we analyze the phase-covariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaromir Fiurasek , Miloslav Dusek

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…

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 introduce a reliable compressive procedure to uniquely characterize any given low-rank quantum measurement using a minimal set of probe states that is based solely on data collected from the unknown measurement itself. The procedure is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 I. Gianani , Y. S. Teo , V. Cimini , H. Jeong , G. Leuchs , M. Barbieri , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

Quantum tomography is a fundamental technique for characterizing, benchmarking, and verifying quantum states and devices. It plays a crucial role in advancing quantum technologies and deepening our understanding of quantum mechanics.…

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 initially consider a quantum system consisting of two qubits, which can be in one of two nonorthogonal states, \Psi_0 or \Psi_1. We distribute the qubits to two parties, Alice and Bob. They each measure their qubit and then compare their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jihane Mimih , Mark Hillery

Using quantum measurements to extract information from states is a matter of routine in quantum science and technologies. A recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040202 (2024)] reported the finding that the symmetric structures of a state can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Zhao-Yi Zhou , Da-Jian Zhang

Fidelity is arguably the most popular figure of merit in quantum sciences. However, many of its properties are still unknown. In this work, we resolve the open problem of maximizing average fidelity over arbitrary finite ensembles of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 A. Afham , Richard Kueng , Chris Ferrie

The Measurement Based Quantum Computation (MBQC) model achieves universal quantum computation by employing projective single qubit measurements with classical feedforward on a highly entangled multipartite cluster state. Rapid advances in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Swapnil Nitin Shah