Sub- and super-fidelity as bounds for quantum fidelity

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 103-130

  Miszczak, Jaroslaw Adam ^a   PuchaŁa, Zbigniew ^a   Horodecki, Pawel ^b,c   Uhlmann, Armin ^d   Zyczkowski, Karol ^e,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED INFORMATICS   (Poland)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c National Quantum Information Centre of Gdansk   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bures distance; Distances in state space; Quantum fidelity; Quantum states

Indexed keywords

BURES DISTANCE; CONCAVE FUNCTION; DISTANCE IN STATE SPACE; QUANTUM FIDELITY; QUANTUM STATE; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SIMPLE++; STATE-SPACE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; TWO-STATE;

EID: 56849129362     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26421/qic9.1-2-7     Document Type: Article

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