Discriminating states: The quantum Chernoff bound

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Audenaert, K M R ^a   Calsamiglia, J ^b   Munoz Tapia R ^b   Bagan, E ^b   Masanes, Ll ^c   Acin, A ^d   Verstraete, F ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

CHERNOFF BOUND; QUANTUM STATES; SYMMETRIC DISTANCES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 34247203085     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.160501     Document Type: Article

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