Wootters' distance revisited: a new distinguishability criterium

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2004-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0408082v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

15 pages, 3 figures, changed content, added reference for last section

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjd/e2005-00005-1

The notion of distinguishability between quantum states has shown to be fundamental in the frame of quantum information theory. In this paper we present a new distinguishability criterium by using a information theoretic quantity: the Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD). This quantity has several interesting properties, both from a conceptual and a formal point of view. Previous to define this distinguishability criterium, we review some of the most frequently used distances defined over quantum mechanics' Hilbert space. In this point our main claim is that the JSD can be taken as a unifying distance between quantum states.

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