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IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Two quantum analogues of the large deviation Cramer-Rao inequality

R. Nagaoka

Published Dec 17, 2002• 2 citations
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Abstract

Considers a family of probability distributions smoothly parametrized by a single parameter /spl Theta/ ranging over an open set /spl Theta/ in R. Under some regularity conditions, large deviation Cramer-Rao inequality holds. Two types of quantum Fisher information is introduced in the analysis.>
DOI
10.1109/isit.1994.394870

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