Adaptive versus nonadaptive strategies for quantum channel discrimination

Aram W. Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, Debbie W. Leung, John Watrous

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Abstract

We provide a simple example that illustrates the advantage of adaptive over nonadaptive strategies for quantum channel discrimination. In particular, we give a pair of entanglement-breaking channels that can be perfectly discriminated by means of an adaptive strategy that requires just two channel evaluations, but for which no nonadaptive strategy can give a perfect discrimination using any finite number of channel evaluations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number032339
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume81
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 31 Mar 2010
Externally publishedYes

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