scholarly journals Adaptive estimation and discrimination of Holevo-Werner channels

Author(s):  
Thomas P. W. Cope ◽  
Stefano Pirandola

AbstractThe class of quantum states known as Werner states have several interesting properties, which often serve to illuminate unusual properties of quantum information. Closely related to these states are the Holevo- Werner channels whose Choi matrices are Werner states. Exploiting the fact that these channels are teleportation covariant, and therefore simulable by teleportation, we compute the ultimate precision in the adaptive estimation of their channel-defining parameter. Similarly, we bound the minimum error probability affecting the adaptive discrimination of any two of these channels. In this case, we prove an analytical formula for the quantum Chernoff bound which also has a direct counterpart for the class of depolarizing channels. Our work exploits previous methods established in [Pirandola and Lupo, PRL

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (9&10) ◽  
pp. 737-758
Author(s):  
Weien Chen ◽  
Yongzhi Cao ◽  
Hanpin Wang ◽  
Yuan Feng

Error probability is a popular and well-studied optimization criterion in discriminating non-orthogonal quantum states. It captures the threat from an adversary who can only query the actual state once. However, when the adversary is able to use a brute-force strategy to query the state, discrimination measurement with minimum error probability does not necessarily minimize the number of queries to get the actual state. In light of this, we take Massey's guesswork as the underlying optimization criterion and study the problem of minimum guesswork discrimination. We show that this problem can be reduced to a semidefinite programming problem. Necessary and sufficient conditions when a measurement achieves minimum guesswork are presented. We also reveal the relation between minimum guesswork and minimum error probability. We show that the two criteria generally disagree with each other, except for the special case with two states. Both upper and lower information-theoretic bounds on minimum guesswork are given. For geometrically uniform quantum states, we provide sufficient conditions when a measurement achieves minimum guesswork. Moreover, we give the necessary and sufficient condition under which making no measurement at all would be the optimal strategy.


Author(s):  
Yiwen Chu ◽  
Mikhail D. Lukin

A common theme in the implementation of quantum technologies involves addressing the seemingly contradictory needs for controllability and isolation from external effects. Undesirable effects of the environment must be minimized, while at the same time techniques and tools must be developed that enable interaction with the system in a controllable and well-defined manner. This chapter addresses several aspects of this theme with regard to a particularly promising candidate for developing applications in both metrology and quantum information, namely the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre in diamond. The chapter describes how the quantum states of NV centres can be manipulated, probed, and efficiently coupled with optical photons. It also discusses ways of tackling the challenges of controlling the optical properties of these emitters inside a complex solid state environment.


2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (13&14) ◽  
pp. 1125-1142
Author(s):  
Arpita Maitra ◽  
Bibhas Adhikari ◽  
Satyabrata Adhikari

Recently, dimensionality testing of a quantum state has received extensive attention (Ac{\'i}n et al. Phys. Rev. Letts. 2006, Scarani et al. Phys. Rev. Letts. 2006). Security proofs of existing quantum information processing protocols rely on the assumption about the dimension of quantum states in which logical bits are encoded. However, removing such assumption may cause security loophole. In the present paper, we show that this is indeed the case. We choose two players' quantum private query protocol by Yang et al. (Quant. Inf. Process. 2014) as an example and show how one player can gain an unfair advantage by changing the dimension of subsystem of a shared quantum system. To resist such attack we propose dimensionality testing in a different way. Our proposal is based on CHSH like game. As we exploit CHSH like game, it can be used to test if the states are product states for which the protocol becomes completely vulnerable.


Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Giovanni Chesi ◽  
Luca Malinverno ◽  
Alessia Allevi ◽  
Romualdo Santoro ◽  
Massimo Caccia ◽  
...  

The study of nonclassical properties of quantum states is a relevant topic for fundamental Quantum Optics and Quantum Information applications. In the mesoscopic domain, promising results have been obtained using photon-number-resolving detectors. Here we show recent results achieved with the class of Silicon Photomultipliers: by a proper analysis of the output signal, the nonclassicality of twin-beam states can be detected and exploited.


2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (06) ◽  
pp. 1550039 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Plastino ◽  
G. Bellomo ◽  
A. R. Plastino

We argue that the dimensionality of the space of quantum systems’ states should be considered as a legitimate resource for quantum information tasks. The assertion is supported by the fact that quantum states with discord-like capacities can be obtained from classically-correlated states in spaces of dimension large enough. We illustrate things with some simple examples that justify our claim.


2010 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Assalini ◽  
Gianfranco Cariolaro ◽  
Gianfranco Pierobon

Author(s):  
Daniel E. Jones ◽  
Brian T. Kirby ◽  
Gabriele Riccardi ◽  
Cristian Antonelli ◽  
Antonio Mecozzi ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 11384-11388
Author(s):  
Jie Zeng ◽  
Tiejun Lv ◽  
Ren Ping Liu ◽  
Xin Su ◽  
Norman C. Beaulieu ◽  
...  

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