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Recognizing how some states are built, from mixed states to singlets

Quantum Physics 2015-03-06 v2

Abstract

It is well known that different preparations of a mixed state cannot be distinguished by a measurement of that state. Yet we show that some other experiments let us make this distinction despite a very general belief that this would not be possible. Issues in quantum cryptography that prompted this work are only briefly mentioned in this letter.

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@article{arxiv.1406.3549,
  title  = {Recognizing how some states are built, from mixed states to singlets},
  author = {Charles Tresser and Enrique Pujals},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.3549},
  year   = {2015}
}

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This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial mistake in the proof

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