Published April 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Testing for a pure state with local operations and classical communication

  • 1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California 94556 (United States)

Description

We examine the problem of using local operations and classical communication (LOCC) to distinguish a known pure state from an unknown (possibly mixed) state, bounding the error probability from above and below. We study the asymptotic rate of detecting multiple copies of the pure state and show that, if the overlap of the two states is great enough, then they can be distinguished asymptotically as well with LOCC as with global measurements; otherwise, the maximal Schmidt coefficient of the pure state is sufficient to determine the asymptotic error rate.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal Volume
51
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 042102-042102.13
ISSN
0022-2488
CODEN
JMAPAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41072133
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; COMMUNICATIONS; ERRORS; MIXED STATE; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; STABILITY; STATISTICS
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRODYNAMICS; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATHEMATICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY

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