The Quantum Blackwell Theorem and Minimum Error State Discrimination

Details The Quantum Blackwell Theorem and Minimum Error State Discrimination The Quantum Blackwell Theorem and Minimum Error State Discrimination

2009-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/0907.0866v4

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 2 eps figures. Couple of typos fixed and further references added

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A quantum analogue of the famous Blackwell Theorem in classical statistics has recently been proposed. Given two quantum channels A and B, a set of payoff functions have been proven to have values for B at least as high as they are for A if and only if there exists a quantum garbling channel E such that A=EB. When such a channel E exists, we can globally compare A and B in terms of their `noisiness'. We show that this method of channel noise comparison is equivalent to one obtained by considering the degradation of the distinguishability of states. Here, the channel A is said to be at least as noisy as the channel B if any ensemble of states, fed into each channel and possibly entangled with ancillae, emerges no more distinguishable from A than it does from channel B, where distinguishability is quantified by the minimum error discrimination probability. We also provide a novel application to eavesdropper detection in quantum cryptography.

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