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arXiv:quant-ph/0107024 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Fidelity and the communication of quantum information

Stephen M Barnett, Claire R Gilson, Masahide Sasaki

Published Aug 24, 2001• 14 citations
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Abstract

We compare and contrast the error probability and fidelity as measures of the quality of the receiver's measurement strategy for a quantum communications system. The error probability is a measure of the ability to retrieve classical information and the fidelity measures the retrieval of quantum information. We present the optimal measurement strategies for maximizing the fidelity given a source that encodes information on the symmetric qubit-states.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/34/35/303

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