{
  "id": "1008.0843",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2010-08-04T18:52:37.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-08-04T18:52:37.000Z",
  "title": "Minimum-error discrimination of entangled quantum states",
  "authors": [
    "Yang Lu",
    "Nick Coish",
    "Rainer Kaltenbaek",
    "Deny R. Hamel",
    "Sarah Croke",
    "Kevin J. Resch"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 4 figures",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Strategies to optimally discriminate between quantum states are critical in quantum technologies. We present an experimental demonstration of minimum error discrimination between entangled states, encoded in the polarization of pairs of photons. Although the optimal measurement involves projecting onto entangled states, we use a result of Walgate et al. to design an optical implementation employing only local polarization measurements and feed-forward, which performs at the Helstrom bound. Our scheme can achieve perfect discrimination of orthogonal states and minimum error discrimination of non-orthogonal states. Our experimental results show a definite advantage over schemes not using feed-forward.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2010-08-04T18:52:37.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.67.-a",
      "03.65.Ta",
      "42.50.Dv"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "entangled quantum states",
      "minimum-error discrimination",
      "minimum error discrimination",
      "achieve perfect discrimination",
      "entangled states"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.82.042340",
      "journal": "Physical Review A",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Oct",
      "volume": 82,
      "number": 4,
      "pages": "042340"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010PhRvA..82d2340L"
    }
  }
}