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The discrimination of any pair of unknown quantum states is performed by devices processing three parts of inputs: copies of the pair of unknown states we want to discriminate are respectively stored in two program systems and copies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Bing He , János A. Bergou

Calculation of the quantum discord requires to find the minimum of the quantum conditional entropy $S(\rho^{AB}|\{\Pi^B_{k}\})$ over all measurements on the subsystem $B$. In this paper, we provide a simple relation for the conditional…

We consider the problem of determining the mixed quantum state of a large but finite number of identically prepared quantum systems from data obtained in a sequence of ideal (von Neumann) measurements, each performed on an individual copy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Franz Embacher , Heide Narnhofer

We investigate optimal discrimination between two projective single-qubit measurements in a scenario where the measurement can be performed only once. We consider general setting involving a tunable fraction of inconclusive outcomes and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 M. Mikova , M. Sedlak , I. Straka , M. Micuda , M. Ziman , M. Jezek , M. Dusek , J. Fiurasek

Strategies to optimally discriminate between quantum states are critical in quantum technologies. We present an experimental demonstration of minimum error discrimination between entangled states, encoded in the polarization of pairs of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yang Lu , Nick Coish , Rainer Kaltenbaek , Deny R. Hamel , Sarah Croke , Kevin J. Resch

Particle distinguishability is a significant challenge for quantum technologies, in particular photonics where the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect clearly demonstrates it is detrimental to quantum interference. We take a representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Stasja Stanisic , Peter S. Turner

We consider quantum state tomography with measurement procedures of the following type: First, we subject the quantum state we aim to identify to a know time evolution for a desired period of time. Afterwards we perform a measurement with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Michael Kech

We consider the problem of correctly classifying a given quantum two-level system (qubit) which is known to be in one of two equally probable quantum states. We assume that this task should be performed by a quantum machine which does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Marco Fanizza , Andrea Mari , Vittorio Giovannetti

Parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) are crucial in variational quantum algorithms. While it is commonly believed that the optimal PQC is solely used to reproduce the target state, we here reveal that the optimal PQC can also provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Jin-Min Liang , Shao-Ming Fei , Qiongyi He

We employ quantum state discrimination theory to establish the ultimate limit for spoofing detection in electromagnetic signals encoded with random quantum states. Our analysis yields an analytical expression for the optimal bound, which we…

Probabilistic quantum state transformations can be characterized by the degree of state separation they provide. This, in turn, sets limits on the success rate of these transformations. We consider optimum state separation of two known pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Emilio Bagan , Vadim Yerokhin , Andi Shehu , Edgar Feldman , Janos A. Bergou

We address a broad class of optimization problems of finding quantum measurements, which includes the problems of finding an optimal measurement in the Bayes criterion and a measurement maximizing the average success probability with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kenji Nakahira , Kentaro Kato , Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda

We propose a class of incompatibility measures for quantum observables based on quantifying the effect of a measurement of one observable on the statistics of the outcomes of another. Specifically, for a pair of observables $A$ and $B$ with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Prabha Mandayam , M. D. Srinivas

Quantum state tomography is an indispensable but costly part of many quantum experiments. Typically, it requires measurements to be carried in a number of different settings on a fixed experimental setup. The collected data is often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Jun Li , Shilin Huang , Zhihuang Luo , Keren Li , Dawei Lu , Bei Zeng

We consider the unambiguous discrimination between two unknown qudit states in $n$-dimensional ($n\geqslant2$) Hilbert space. By equivalence of unknown pure states to known mixed states and with the Jordan-basis method, we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Tao Zhou

An optimal estimator of quantum states based on a modified Kalman's Filter is proposed in this work. Such estimator acts after state measurement, allowing obtain an optimal estimation of quantum state resulting in the output of any quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Mario Mastriani

We consider the Unambiguous State Discrimination (USD) of two mixed quantum states. We study the rank and the spectrum of the elements of an optimal USD measurement. This naturally leads to a partial fourth reduction theorem. This theorem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-11 Philippe Raynal , Norbert Lütkenhaus

Two pure orthogonal quantum states can be perfectly distinguished by sequential local action of multiple pairs of parties. However, this process typically leads to the complete dissolution of entanglement in the states being discriminated.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Debarupa Saha , Priya Ghosh , Kornikar Sen , Chirag Srivastava , Ujjwal Sen

We study an optimized measurement which discriminates N mixed quantum states occurring with given prior robabilities. The measurement yields the maximum achievable confidence for each of the N conclusive outcomes, thereby keeping the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ulrike Herzog

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