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Optimal Unambiguous Discrimination And Quantum Nonlocality Without Entanglement: Locking And Unlocking By Post-Measurement Information

Donghoon Ha, Jeong San Kim

Published Dec 8, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract The phenomenon of nonlocality without entanglement(NLWE) arises in discriminating multi-party quantum separable states. Recently, it has been found that the post-measurement information about the prepared subensemble can lock or unlock NLWE in minimum-error discrimination of non-orthogonal separable states. Thus it is natrual to ask whether the availability of the post-measurement information can influence on the occurrence of NLWE even in other state-discrimination stratigies. Here, we show that the post-measurement information can be used to lock as well as unlock the occurence of NLWE in terms of optimal nambiguous discrimination. Our results can provide a useful application for hiding or sharing information based on non-orthogonal separable states.

DOI
10.21203/rs.3.rs-1136246/v1

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The phenomenon of nonlocality without entanglement (NLWE) arises in discriminating multi-party quantum separable states. Recently, it has been found that the post-measurement information about the prepared subensemble can lock or unlock NLWE in minimum-error discrimination of non-orthogonal separable states. Thus It is natural to ask whether the availability of the post-measurement information can influence on the occurrence of NLWE even in other state-discrimination strategies. Here, we show that the post-measurement information can be used to lock as well as unlock the occurrence of NLWE in terms of optimal unambiguous discrimination. Our results can provide a useful application for hiding or sharing information based on non-orthogonal separable states.
Nonlocality without entanglement(NLWE) is a nonlocal quantum phenomenon that arises in separable state discrimination. We show that the availability of the post-measurement information about the prepared subensemble can affect the occurrence of NLWE in discriminating non-orthogonal non-entangled states. We provide a two-qubit state ensemble consisting of four non-orthogonal separable pure states and show that the post-measurement information about the prepared subensemble can lock NLWE. We also provide another two-qubit state ensemble consisting of four non-orthogonal separable states and show that the post-measurement information can unlock NLWE. Our result can provide a useful method to share or hide information using non-orthogonal separable states.
Nonlocality without entanglement (NLWE) is a nonlocal quantum phenomenon that arises in separable state discrimination. We show that the availability of the postmeasurement information about the prepared subensemble can affect the occurrence of NLWE in discriminating non-orthogonal nonentangled states. We provide a two-qubit state ensemble consisting of four nonorthogonal separable pure states and show that the postmeasurement information about the prepared subensemble can annihilate NLWE. We also provide another two-qubit state ensemble consisting of four nonorthogonal separable states and show that the postmeasurement information can create NLWE. Our result can provide a useful method to share or hide information using nonorthogonal separable states.
A set of pairwise non-orthogonal quantum states cannot be perfectly discriminated, and this remains true even when one bit of classical partial information is available prior to the measurement. Contrary to the usual intuition that earlier information is at least as valuable as later information, we show that the same bit can be more useful when it arrives after the measurement. We present a framework for state discrimination in which the sender provides classical information in response to a request from the receiver, which we refer to as a query. In some cases, pairwise non-orthogonal states can be perfectly discriminated when the query is allowed to depend on the measurement outcome. We give a general method for finding the optimal strategy in this setting, which turns out to be the standard minimum-error discrimination problem for an auxiliary ensemble.
Nonlocality without entanglement(NLWE) is a nonlocal phenomenon that occurs in quantum state discrimination of multipartite separable states. Recently, it has been found that NLWE can depend on nonzero prior probabilities in minimum-error discrimination of nonorthogonal separable states. Here, we show that even in optimal unambiguous discrimination, NLWE can depend on nonzero prior probabilities. We further show that NLWE can occur regardless of nonzero prior probabilities, even if only one state can be locally discriminated without error. Our results provide new insights into classifying sets of multipartite quantum states in terms of quantum state discrimination.
Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental information processing task that serves as a key component in many applications while also carrying foundational significance. In this work, we consider minimum error discrimination of multi-copy states, where instead of preparing a single system we assume that multiple instances of the same state are prepared. Now the discrimination allows for measurements from multiple parties with different measurement strategies varying from global measurement strategy to ones restricted to different forms of local operations and classical communication strategies. By comparing the average success probabilities in quantum and classical cases, we find a qubit strategy that outperforms all the bit strategies. On the other hand, we show that the classical measurement strategy does not give benefit in qubit over bit. However, we find that there are other (qu)bit-like operational theories which can outperform the best qubit strategies even with a classical measurement strategy and we are able to identify instances of different theories where different measurement strategies are optimal. In this way, we are able to find instances of nonlocality without entanglement as well as provide general bounds for bit-like operational theories.