Pretty good measurement for bosonic Gaussian ensembles

DOI10.1142/S0219749924400100arXiv2303.04949WikidataQ129862469 ScholiaQ129862469MaRDI QIDQ6428898FDOQ6428898

Authors: Hemant Kumar Mishra, Ludovico Lami, Prabha Mandayam, Mark M. Wilde 

Publication date: 8 March 2023

Abstract: The pretty good measurement is a fundamental analytical tool in quantum information theory, giving a method for inferring the classical label that identifies a quantum state chosen probabilistically from an ensemble. Identifying and constructing the pretty good measurement for the class of bosonic Gaussian states is of immediate practical relevance in quantum information processing tasks. Holevo recently showed that the pretty good measurement of a Gaussian ensemble in a multimode bosonic system is a Gaussian measurement that attains the accessible information of the ensemble (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 66(9):5634-564, 2020). In this paper, we provide an alternate proof of Gaussianity of the pretty good measurement for a Gaussian ensemble of multimode bosonic states, with a focus on providing an explicit and efficiently computable Gaussian description of the measurement. These findings imply that the pretty good measurement is no longer merely an analytical tool for this case, but that it can also be implemented experimentally in quantum optics laboratories. We also compute an explicit form of the mean square error of the pretty good measurement, which is relevant when using it for parameter estimation.

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