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Recall the classical hypothesis testing setting with two convex sets of probability distributions P and Q. One receives either n i.i.d. samples from a distribution p in P or from a distribution q in Q and wants to decide from which set the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Aram W. Harrow , James R. Lee , Yuval Peres

Determining the presence of a potential optical source in the interest region is important for an imaging system and can be achieved by using hypothesis testing. The previous studies assume that the potential source is completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Jian-Dong Zhang , Kexin Zhang , Lili Hou , Shuai Wang

We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for a sequence of quantum measurements to achieve the optimal performance in quantum hypothesis testing. Using an information-spectrum method, we discuss what quantum measurement we should…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahito Hayashi

The trade-off between the two types of errors in binary state discrimination may be quantified in the asymptotics by various error exponents. In the case of simple i.i.d. hypotheses, each of these exponents is equal to a divergence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Milán Mosonyi , Zsombor Szilágyi , Mihály Weiner

The discrimination of non-orthogonal quantum states with reduced or without errors is a fundamental task in quantum measurement theory. In this work, we investigate a quantum measurement strategy capable of discriminating two coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Christoffer Wittmann , Ulrik L. Andersen , Gerd Leuchs

We revisit the basic problem of quantum state certification: given copies of unknown mixed state $\rho\in\mathbb{C}^{d\times d}$ and the description of a mixed state $\sigma$, decide whether $\sigma = \rho$ or $\|\sigma -…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Sitan Chen , Jerry Li , Ryan O'Donnell

In the asymptotic theory of quantum hypothesis testing, the minimal error probability of the first kind jumps sharply from zero to one when the error exponent of the second kind passes by the point of the relative entropy of the two states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 Ke Li

In quantum computing, knowing the symmetries a given system or state obeys or disobeys is often useful. For example, Hamiltonian symmetries may limit allowed state transitions or simplify learning parameters in machine learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Margarite L. LaBorde , Soorya Rethinasamy , Mark M. Wilde

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

A discrimination problem consists of $N$ linearly independent pure quantum states $\Phi=\{\ket{\phi_i}\}$ and the corresponding occurrence probabilities $\eta=\{\eta_i\}$. To any such problem we associate, up to a permutation over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Seyed Arash Ghoreishi , Seyed Javad Akhtarshenas , Mohsen Sarbishaei

In the problem of quantum state discrimination, one has to determine by measurements the state of a quantum system, based on the a priori side information that the true state is one of two given and completely known states, rho or sigma. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Koenraad M. R. Audenaert , Milan Mosonyi , Frank Verstraete

The single-letter characterisation of the entanglement-assisted capacity of a quantum channel is one of the seminal results of quantum information theory. In this paper, we consider a modified communication scenario in which the receiver is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Kaiyuan Ji , Bartosz Regula , Mark M. Wilde

The discrimination of quantum states is a central problem in quantum information science and technology. Meanwhile, partial post-selection has emerged as a valuable tool for quantum state engineering. In this work, we bring these two areas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Qipeng Qian , Christos N. Gagatsos

We study the problem of discriminating between non-orthogonal quantum states with least probability of error. We demonstrate that this problem can be simplified if we solve for the error itself rather than solving directly for the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kieran Hunter

The optimal error exponents of binary composite i.i.d. state discrimination are trivially bounded by the worst-case pairwise exponents of discriminating individual elements of the sets representing the two hypotheses, and in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Péter E. Frenkel , Milán Mosonyi , Péter Vrana , Mihály Weiner

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

Quantum hypothesis testing concerns the discrimination between quantum states. This paper introduces a novel lower bound for asymmetric quantum hypothesis testing that is based on the Nussbaum-Szko{\l}a mapping. The lower bound provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Jorge Lizarribar-Carrillo , Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar , Tobias Koch

Quantum hypothesis testing (QHT) has been traditionally studied from the information-theoretic perspective, wherein one is interested in the optimal decay rate of error probabilities as a function of the number of samples of an unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Hao-Chung Cheng , Nilanjana Datta , Nana Liu , Theshani Nuradha , Robert Salzmann , Mark M. Wilde

Minimum error state discrimination between two mixed states \rho and \sigma can be aided by the receipt of "classical side information" specifying which states from some convex decompositions of \rho and \sigma apply in each run. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-22 Matthew F. Pusey , Terry Rudolph

We present the first experimental demonstration of the maximum confidence measurement strategy for quantum state discrimination. Applying this strategy to an arbitrary set of states assigns to each input state a measurement outcome which,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter J. Mosley , Sarah Croke , Ian A. Walmsley , Stephen M. Barnett