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Optimum Unambiguous Discrimination Between Linearly Independent Symmetric States

Anthony Chefles, Stephen M. Barnett

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9807023

Abstract

The quantum formalism permits one to discriminate sometimes between any set of linearly-independent pure states with certainty. We obtain the maximum probability with which a set of equally-likely, symmetric, linearly-independent states can be discriminated. The form of this bound is examined for symmetric coherent states of a harmonic oscillator or field mode.

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