Maximal trace distance between isoenergetic bosonic Gaussian states

DOI10.1063/1.4998512zbMATH Open1377.81017arXiv1706.05807OpenAlexW3098004539MaRDI QIDQ4600237FDOQ4600237

Authors: T. J. Volkoff 

Publication date: 8 January 2018

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We locate the set of pairs $(h{o}_1,h{o}_2)$ of Gaussian states of a single mode electromagnetic field that exhibit maximal trace distance subject to the energy constraint $langle{a}^{dagger}aangl{e}_{h{o}_1}=langle{a}^{dagger}aangl{e}_{h{o}_2}=E$. Any such pair allows to achieve the minimum possible error in the task of binary distinguishability of two single mode, isoenergetic Gaussian quantum signals. In particular, we show that the logarithm of the minimal error probability for distinguishing two maximally trace distant, isoenergetic Gaussian states scales as $-E^2$, less than the achievable scaling of the minimal error probability for distinguishing, e.g., a pair of isoenergetic Heisenberg-Weyl coherent states with energy $E$ or a pair of isoenergetic quadrature squeezed states with energy $E$. For the case of a field consisting of $M>1$ modes, we locate the set of pairs of maximally trace distant isoenergetic, isocovariant Gaussian states. These results have basic applications in the theory of continuous variable quantum communications with Gaussian states of light.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05807

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zbMATH Keywords

state discrimination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Coherent states (81R30) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50)

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