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View SchemaOperationally Invariant Measure of the Distance between Quantum States by Complementary Measurements
| Authors | Jinhyoung Lee, M. S. Kim, Caslav Brukner |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0303111 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303111 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.087902 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 087902 (2003) |
Abstract
We propose an operational measure of distance of two quantum states, which conversely tells us their closeness. This is defined as a sum of differences in partial knowledge over a complete set of mutually complementary measurements for the two states. It is shown that the measure is operationally invariant and it is equivalent to the Hilbert-Schmidt distance. The operational measure of distance provides a remarkable interpretation of the information distance between quantum states.
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