Unambiguous comparison of the states of multiple quantum systems

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/29/009MaRDI QIDQ3158727zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Anthony Chefles, Erika Andersson, Igor Jex

Publication date 31 January 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402125, https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/6192/

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum computation (81P68)

Abstract: We consider N quantum systems initially prepared in pure states and address the problem of unambiguously comparing them. One may ask whether or not all $N$ systems are in the same state. Alternatively, one may ask whether or not the states of all N systems are different. We investigate the possibility of unambiguously obtaining this kind of information. It is found that some unambiguous comparison tasks are possible only when certain linear independence conditions are satisfied. We also obtain measurement strategies for certain comparison tasks which are optimal under a broad range of circumstances, in particular when the states are completely unknown. Such strategies, which we call universal comparison strategies, are found to have intriguing connections with the problem of quantifying the distinguishability of a set of quantum states and also with unresolved conjectures in linear algebra. We finally investigate a potential generalisation of unambiguous state comparison, which we term unambiguous overlap filtering.

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