English
Related papers

Related papers: Unambiguous discrimination between quantum mixed s…

200 papers

We address the problem of unambiguously identifying the state of a probe qudit with the state of one of d reference qudits. The reference states are assumed pure and linearly independent but we have no knowledge of them. The state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ulrike Herzog , Janos A. Bergou

Two types of errors can occur when discriminating pairs of quantum states. Asymmetric state discrimination involves minimizing the probability of one type of error, subject to a constraint on the other. We give explicit expressions bounding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Jason L. Pereira , Leonardo Banchi , Stefano Pirandola

Entanglement is at the heart of most quantum information tasks, and therefore considerable effort has been made to find methods of deciding the entanglement content of a given bipartite quantum state. Here, we prove a fundamental limitation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Claudio Carmeli , Teiko Heinosaari , Antti Karlsson , Jussi Schultz , Alessandro Toigo

We construct a device that can unambiguously discriminate between two unknown quantum states. The unknown states are provided as inputs, or programs, for the program registers and a third system, which is guaranteed to be prepared in one of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Janos Bergou , Mark Hillery

Quantum state discrimination, alongside its other applications, has recently found use as a tool for witnessing generalised contextuality. In this article, we derive noncontextuality inequalities for both conclusive and inconclusive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Kieran Flatt , Joonwoo Bae

Heterogeneous bipartite quantum pure states, composed of two subsystems with a different number of levels, cannot have both reductions maximally mixed. In this work, we demonstrate existence of a wide range of highly entangled states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-06 D. Goyeneche , J. Bielawski , K. Życzkowski

One advantage of quantum algorithms over classical computation is the possibility to spread out, process, analyse and extract information in multipartite configurations in coherent superpositions of classical states. This will be discussed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl Svozil

If the system is known to be in one of two non-orthogonal quantum states, $|\psi_1\rangle$ or $|\psi_2\rangle$, it is not possible to discriminate them by a single measurement due to the unitarity constraint. In a regular Hermitian quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Yaroslav Balytskyi , Manohar Raavi , Anatoliy Pinchuk , Sang-Yoon Chang

Quantum indistinguishability of non-orthogonal quantum states is a valuable resource in quantum information applications such as cryptography and randomness generation. In this article, we present a sequential state-discrimination scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Lemieux Wang , Hanwool Lee , Joonwoo Bae , Kieran Flatt

Quantum information is nonlocal in the sense that local measurements on a composite quantum system, prepared in one of many mutually orthogonal states, may not reveal in which state the system was prepared. It is shown that in the many copy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

The (im)possibility of local distinguishability of orthogonal multipartite quantum states still remains an intriguing question. Beyond $\mathbb{C}^{3}\otimes\mathbb{C}^{3}$, the problem remains unsolved even for maximally entangled states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Tanmay Singal , Ramij Rahman , Sibasish Ghosh , Guruprasad Kar

We consider multipartite quantum state discrimination and show that the minimum-error discrimination by separable measurements is closely related to the concept of entanglement witness. Based on the properties of entanglement witness, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Donghoon Ha , Jeong San Kim

Discrimination task is treated in the case of only partial prior information from measurements of unknown states. The construction of the optimal discrimination device and estimation of unknown states is performed simultaneously. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Miroslav Jezek

In quantum information technology, crucial information is regularly encoded in different quantum states. To extract information, the identification of one state from the others is inevitable. However, if the states are non-orthogonal and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Lu-Ji Wang , Jia-Yi Lin , Shengjun Wu

We relate the the distinguishability of quantum states with their robustness of the entanglement, where the robustness of any resource quantifies how tolerant it is to noise. In particular, we identify upper and lower bounds on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Debarupa Saha , Kornikar Sen , Chirag Srivastava , Ujjwal Sen

Intrinsic randomness is generated when a quantum state is measured in any basis in which it is not diagonal. In an adversarial scenario, we quantify this randomness by the probability that a correlated eavesdropper could correctly guess the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Fionnuala Curran

If the system is known to be in one of two non-orthogonal quantum states, $|\psi_1\rangle$ or $|\psi_2\rangle$, $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics can discriminate them, \textit{in principle}, by a single measurement. We extend this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Yaroslav Balytskyi , Sang-Yoon Chang , Anatoliy Pinchuk , Manohar Raavi

Properties of entangled states based on nonorthogonal states are clarified. Especially, it is shown that they can have complete degree of entanglement.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Osamu Hirota , Masahide Sasaki

We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the partial transposition of bipartite harmonic quantum states to be nonnegative. The conditions are formulated as an infinite series of inequalities for the moments of the state under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Shchukin , W. Vogel

We consider deeply the relation between the orthogonality and the distinguishability of a set of arbitrary states (including multi-partite states). It is shown that if a set of arbitrary states can be distinguished by local operations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping Xing Chen , Cheng Zu Li