How well can you know the edge of a quantum pyramid?

DOI10.1080/09500340903094601zbMATH Open1190.81016arXiv0905.0510OpenAlexW2104297038WikidataQ62097206 ScholiaQ62097206MaRDI QIDQ3568936FDOQ3568936

Authors: Berthold-Georg Englert, Jaroslav Řeháček 

Publication date: 16 June 2010

Published in: Journal of Modern Optics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a symmetric quantum communication scenario in which the signal states are edges of a quantum pyramid of arbitrary dimension and arbitrary shape, and all edge states are transmitted with the same probability. The receiver could employ different decoding strategies: he could minimize the error probability, or discriminate without ambiguity, or extract the accessible information. We state the optimal measurement scheme for each strategy. For large parameter ranges, the standard square-root measurement does not extract the information optimally.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0510

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum state discriminationaccessible informationunambiguous discriminationminimum-error measurement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantum coding (general) (81P70)

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• Optimum measurements for discrimination among symmetric quantum states and parameter estimation
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