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IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

On a sequential measurement of M-ary orthogonal quantum signal. Approach to implementing an optimum receiver

Masashi Kato, K. Yamazaki

Published Nov 27, 2002• 0 citations
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Abstract

We clarify whether the sequential measurement can attain the minimum error probability obtained by combined measurement for an M-ary orthogonal quantum signal. As the results, we show that the sequential measurement can attain the minimum error probability only for binary orthogonal signal but can not for more than a ternary one.
DOI
10.1109/isit.1998.708957

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