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View SchemaFeedback control for communication with non-orthogonal states
| Authors | Kurt Jacobs |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0601162 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0601162 |
| Journal | Quantum Information & Computation 7, 127 (2007) |
Abstract
Communicating classical information with a quantum system involves the receiver making a measurement on the system so as to distinguish as well as possible the alphabet of states used by the sender. We consider the situation in which this measurement takes an appreciable time. In this case the measurement must be described by a continuous measurement process. We consider a continuous implementation of the optimal measurement for distinguishing between two non-orthogonal states, and show that feedback control can be used during this measurement to increase the rate at which the information regarding the initial preparation is obtained. We show that while the maximum obtainable increase is modest, the effect is purely quantum mechanical in the sense that the enhancement is only possible when the initial states are non-orthogonal. We find further that the enhancement in the rate of information gain is achieved at the expense of reducing the total information which the measurement can extract in the long-time limit.
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