Biomedical subjects

M A Ballester

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PubMed2006

Separable measurement estimation of density matrices and its fidelity gap with collective protocols.

We show that there exists a gap between the performance of separable and collective measurements in the qubit mixed-state estimation that persists in the large sample limit. We characterize the gap with sharp asymptotic bounds on mean fidelity. We present an adaptive protocol that attains the separable measurement bound. This protocol uses von Neumann measurements and can be easily implemented with current technology.

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PubMed2005

Purity estimation with separable measurements.

Given a large number N of copies of a qubit state of which we wish to estimate its purity, we prove that separable-measurement protocols can be as efficient as the optimal joint-measurement one if classical communication is used. This shows that the optimal estimation of the entanglement of a two-qubit state can also be achieved asymptotically with fully separable measurements. Thus, quantum memories provide no advantage in this situation. The relationship between our global Bayesian approach and the quantum Cramér-Rao bound is discussed.

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