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How many copies are needed for state discrimination?

Aram W. Harrow, Andreas Winter

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0606131

Abstract

Given a collection of states (rho1, ..., rhoN) with pairwise fidelities F(rhoi, rhoj) <= F < 1, we show the existence of a POVM that, given rhoiotimes n, will identify i with probability >= 1-epsilon, as long as n>=2(log N/eps)/log (1/F). This improves on previous results which were either dimension-dependent or required that i be drawn from a known distribution.

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