Optimum unambiguous discrimination between subsets of nonorthogonal quantum states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 323151-3231511

  Sun, Yuqing ^a   Bergou, János A ^a   Hillery, Mark ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

UNITARY TRANSFORMATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 4243618546     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.032315     Document Type: Article

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