Distinguishability of quantum states by separable operations

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1320-1330

  Duan, Runyao ^a,b   Feng, Yuan ^a,b   Xin, Yu ^a,b   Ying, Mingsheng ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Local distinguishability; Orthogonal Schmidt number; Quantum nonlocality; Separable operations; Unextendible product bases

Indexed keywords

MIXED CONVECTION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SET THEORY;

LOCAL DISTINGUISHABILITY; ORTHOGONAL SCHMIDT NUMBER; QUANTUM NONLOCALITY; SEPARABLE OPERATIONS; UNEXTENDIBLE PRODUCT BASES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 62749178554     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2008.2011524     Document Type: Article

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