scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Quantum state discrimination and its applications

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This review serves to strengthen the link between results in quantum state discrimination and quantum information applications, by showing the ways in which the fundamental results are exploited in applications and vice versa.
Abstract
Quantum state discrimination underlies various applications in quantum information processing tasks. It essentially describes the distinguishability of quantum systems in different states, and the general process of extracting classical information from quantum systems. It is also useful in quantum information applications, such as the characterization of mutual information in cryptographic protocols, or as a technique for deriving fundamental theorems on quantum foundations. It has deep connections to physical principles such as relativistic causality. Quantum state discrimination traces a long history of several decades, starting with the early attempts to formalize information processing of physical systems such as optical communication with photons. Nevertheless, in most cases, the problems of finding optimal strategies of quantum state discrimination remain unsolved, and related applications are valid in some limited cases only. The present review aims to provide an overview on quantum state discrimination, covering some recent progress, and addressing applications in some selected areas. This review serves to strengthen the link between results in quantum state discrimination and quantum information applications, by showing the ways in which the fundamental results are exploited in applications and vice versa.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Measures and applications of quantum correlations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give an overview of the current quest for a proper understanding and characterisation of the frontier between classical and quantum correlations in composite states, focusing on various approaches to define and quantify general QCs, based on different yet interlinked physical perspectives, and comment on the operational significance of the ensuing measures for quantum technology tasks such as information encoding, distribution, discrimination and metrology.
Journal ArticleDOI

Measures and applications of quantum correlations

TL;DR: This work gives an overview of the current quest for a proper understanding and characterisation of the frontier between classical and quantum correlations (QCs) in composite states, and focuses on various approaches to define and quantify general QCs, based on different yet interlinked physical perspectives.
Journal ArticleDOI

General Resource Theories in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond: Operational Characterization via Discrimination Tasks

TL;DR: This work finds that discrimination tasks provide a unified operational description for quantification and manipulation of resources by showing that the family of robustness measures can be understood as the maximum advantage provided by any physical resource in several different discrimination tasks, as well as establishing that such discrimination problems can fully characterize the allowed transformations within the given resource theory.
Journal ArticleDOI

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and no-go theorems in quantum information

TL;DR: In this paper, a modified formulation of NHQM based on the geometry of Hilbert spaces was developed, which is consistent with the conventional quantum mechanics for Hermitian systems, including parity-time symmetric and pseudo-Hermitian cases.
Journal ArticleDOI

Quantum secret sharing via local operations and classical communication.

TL;DR: A standard (2, n)-threshold quantum secret sharing scheme (called LOCC-QSS scheme), which solves the open question of distinguishability of orthogonal multipartite entangled states in d-qudit system by restricted local operations and classical communication.
References
More filters
Book

Convex Optimization

TL;DR: In this article, the focus is on recognizing convex optimization problems and then finding the most appropriate technique for solving them, and a comprehensive introduction to the subject is given. But the focus of this book is not on the optimization problem itself, but on the problem of finding the appropriate technique to solve it.
Journal ArticleDOI

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

TL;DR: Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that one is led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.
Journal ArticleDOI

On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that even without such a separability or locality requirement, no hidden variable interpretation of quantum mechanics is possible and that such an interpretation has a grossly nonlocal structure, which is characteristic of any such theory which reproduces exactly the quantum mechanical predictions.
Journal ArticleDOI

Quantum cryptography based on Bell's theorem.

TL;DR: Practical application of the generalized Bells theorem in the so-called key distribution process in cryptography is reported, based on the Bohms version of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen gedanken experiment andBells theorem is used to test for eavesdropping.
Journal ArticleDOI

A single quantum cannot be cloned

TL;DR: In this article, the linearity of quantum mechanics has been shown to prevent the replication of a photon of definite polarization in the presence of an excited atom, and the authors show that this conclusion holds for all quantum systems.