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arXiv:quant-ph/0012045 · Physical Review A

Communication of spin directions with product states and finite measurements

E. Bagán, M. Baig, R. Muñoz-Tapia

Published Jul 5, 2001• 27 citations
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Abstract

Total spin eigenstates can be used to intrinsically encode a direction, which can later be decoded by means of a quantum measurement. We study the optimal strategy that can be adopted if, as is likely in practical applications, only product states of N spins are available. We obtain the asymptotic behavior of the average fidelity, which provides a proof that the optimal states must be entangled. We also give a prescription for constructing finite measurements for general encoding eigenstates.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.64.022305

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Total spin eigenstates can be used to intrinsically encode a direction, which can later be decoded by means of a quantum measurement. We study the optimal strategy that can be adopted if, as is likely in practical applications, only product states of N spins are available. We obtain the asymptotic behavior of the average fidelity, which provides a proof that the optimal states must be entangled. We also give a prescription for constructing finite measurements for general encoding eigenstates.
For a system of N spins there are quantum states that can encode a direction in an intrinsic way. Information on this direction can later be decoded by means of a quantum measurement. We present here the optimal encoding and decoding procedure using the fidelity as a figure of merit. We compute the maximal fidelity and prove that it is directly related to the largest zeros of the Legendre and Jacobi polynomials. We show that this maximal fidelity approaches unity quadratically in 1/N.1/N.1/N. We also discuss this result in terms of the dimension of the encoding Hilbert space.
It is shown that the ensemble {P(alpha),|alpha|alpha;{*}}, where P(alpha) is a Gaussian distribution of finite variance and |alpha is a coherent state, can be better discriminated with an entangled measurement than with any local strategy supplemented by classical communication. Although this ensemble consists of products of quasiclassical states without any squeezing, it thus exhibits a purely quantum feature. This remarkable effect is demonstrated experimentally by implementing the optimal local strategy on coherent states of light together with a global strategy that yields a higher fidelity.
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We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for a sequence of quantum measurements to achieve the optimal performance in quantum hypothesis testing. We discuss what quantum measurement we should perform in order to attain the optimal exponent of the second error probability under the condition that the first error probability goes to 0. As an asymptotically optimal measurement, we propose a projection measurement characterized by the irreducible representation theory of the special linear group SL ( ). Especially, in the spin-1/2 system, it is realized by the simultaneous measurement of the total momentum and a momentum of a specified direction. As a by-product, we obtain another proof of quantum Stein's lemma. In addition, an asymptotically optimal measurement is constructed in the quantum Gaussian case, and it is physically meaningful.