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Unconventional receivers enable reduction of error rates in optical communication systems below the standard quantum limit (SQL) by implementing discrimination strategies for constellation symbols that go beyond the canonical measurement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 L. Kunz , M. T. DiMario , F. E. Becerra , K. Banaszek

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

By combining the Minkowski inequality and the quantum Chernoff bound, we derive easy-to-compute upper bounds for the error probability affecting the optimal discrimination of Gaussian states. In particular, these bounds are useful when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-27 Stefano Pirandola , Seth Lloyd

We consider the discrimination of two pure quantum states with three allowed outcomes: a correct guess, an incorrect guess, and a non-guess. To find an optimum measurement procedure, we define a tunable cost that penalizes the incorrect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Justin Dressel , Todd A. Brun , Alexander N. Korotkov

Bosonic quantum error correction enables hardware-efficient protection of quantum information by encoding logical qubits in harmonic oscillators. Bosonic grid states, such as Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states, are particularly…

The problem of measuring a time-varying phase, even when the statistics of the variation is known, is considerably harder than that of measuring a constant phase. In particular, the usual bounds on accuracy - such as the $1/(4\bar{n})$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Kiarn T. Laverick , Howard M. Wiseman , Hossien T. Dinani , Dominic W. Berry

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 discuss the ultimate precision bounds on the multiparameter estimation of single- and two-mode pure Gaussian states. By leveraging on previous approaches that focused on the estimation of a complex displacement only, we derive the Holevo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Gabriele Bressanini , Marco G. Genoni , M. S. Kim , Matteo G. A. Paris

We study the computational phase transition in a multi-frequency group synchronization problem, where pairwise relative measurements of group elements are observed across multiple frequency channels and corrupted by Gaussian noise. Using…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Zhangsong Li

Tracking a randomly varying optical phase is a key task in metrology, with applications in optical communication. The best precision for optical phase tracking has till now been limited by the quantum vacuum fluctuations of coherent light.…

One of the fundamental tenets of quantum mechanics is that non-orthogonal states cannot be distinguished perfectly. When distinguishing multiple copies of a mixed quantum state, a collective measurement, which generates entanglement between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Lorcan Conlon , Jin Ming Koh , Biveen Shajilal , Jasminder Sidhu , Ping Koy Lam , Syed M. Assad

Error probability is a popular and well-studied optimization criterion in discriminating non-orthogonal quantum states. It captures the threat from an adversary who can only query the actual state once. However, when the adversary is able…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 Weien Chen , Yongzhi Cao , Hanpin Wang , Yuan Feng

We study the problem of calibrating a quantum receiver for optical coherent states when transmitted on a quantum optical channel with variable transmissivity, a common model for long-distance optical-fiber and free/deep-space optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Matias Bilkis , Matteo Rosati , John Calsamiglia

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

In this letter, first, we investigate the security of a continuous-variable quantum cryptographic scheme with a postselection process against individual beam splitting attack. It is shown that the scheme can be secure in the presence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ryo Namiki , Takuya Hirano

Methods borrowed from the world of quantum information processing have lately been used to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of quantum detectors. Here we analyze the use of stabilizer quantum error-correction codes for the purpose of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 Roee Ozeri

Heisenberg scaling characterizes the ultimate precision of parameter estimation enabled by quantum mechanics, which represents an important quantum advantage of both theoretical and technological interest. Here, we study the attainability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Masahito Hayashi , Zi-Wen Liu , Haidong Yuan

This paper concerns the problem of 1-bit compressed sensing, where the goal is to estimate a sparse signal from a few of its binary measurements. We study a non-convex sparsity-constrained program and present a novel and concise analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Jie Shen

Quantum detectors provide information about quantum systems by establishing correlations between certain properties of those systems and a set of macroscopically distinct states of the corresponding measurement devices. A natural question…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Ognyan Oreshkov , John Calsamiglia , Ramon Munoz-Tapia , Emili Bagan

We present an experimental implementation of optimum measurements for quantum state discrimination. Optimum maximum-confidence discrimination and optimum unambiguous discrimination of two mixed single-photon polarization states were…