arXiv:quant-ph/0602057 · Physical Review A

Information-disturbance theorem for mutually unbiased observables

Takayuki Miyadera, Hideki Imai

Published Apr 20, 2006• 14 citations

Abstract

We derive a version of information-disturbance theorems for mutually unbiased observables. We show that the information gain by Eve inevitably makes the outcomes by Bob in the conjugate basis not only erroneous but random.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.73.042317

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