Entropy and geometry of quantum states

DOI10.1142/S0219749918500326zbMATH Open1396.81022arXiv1609.07279MaRDI QIDQ4584435FDOQ4584435

Authors: Kumar Shivam, Anirudh Reddy, Joseph Samuel, Supurna Sinha 

Publication date: 3 September 2018

Published in: International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compare the roles of the Bures-Helstrom (BH) and Bogoliubov-Kubo-Mori (BKM) metrics in the subject of quantum information geometry. We note that there are two limits involved in state discrimination, which we call the "thermodynamic" limit (of $N$, the number of realizations going to infinity) and the infinitesimal limit (of the separation of states tending to zero). We show that these two limits do not commute in the quantum case. Taking the infinitesimal limit first leads to the BH metric and the corresponding Cram'er-Rao bound, which is widely accepted in this subject. Taking limits in the opposite order leads to the BKM metric, which results in a weaker Cram'er-Rao bound. This lack of commutation of limits is a purely quantum phenomenon arising from quantum entanglement. We can exploit this phenomenon to gain a quantum advantage in state discrimination and get around the limitation imposed by the Bures-Helstrom Cram'er-Rao (BHCR) bound. We propose a technologically feasible experiment with cold atoms to demonstrate the quantum advantage in the simple case of two qubits.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07279

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zbMATH Keywords

metricquantum measurementdistinguishability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

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