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View SchemaFidelity and the communication of quantum information
| Authors | Stephen M. Barnett, Claire R. Gilson, Masahide Sasaki |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0107024 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0107024 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0305-4470/34/35/303 |
| Journal | J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34(35), 6755 (2001). |
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 {\it classical} information and the fidelity measures the retrieval of {\it quantum} information. We present the optimal measurement strategies for maximising the fidelity given a source that encodes information on the symmetric qubit-states.
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