Quantum comparison machines with one-sided error

Abstract

It is always possible to decide, with one-sided error, whether two quantum states are the same under a specific unitary transformation. However we show here that it is impossible to do so if the transformation is anti-linear and non-singular. This result implies that unitary and anti-unitary operations exist on an unequal footing in quantum information theory.

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