Quantum state discrimination and selected applications
- 1 October 2007
- conference paper
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
- Vol. 84 (1) , 012001
Abstract
Determining the state of a quantum system is a central task in quantum information processing since it encompasses the read-out problem. Very often the optimized state discrimination strategy is a generalized measurement (Positive Operator Valued Measure, POVM). Therefore, we begin with a brief introduction to the theory of generalized measurements and illustrate the power of the concept on examples relevant to applications in quantum cryptography.Keywords
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