All Entangled States are Useful for Channel Discrimination

Marco Piani and John Watrous
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250501 – Published 24 June 2009

Abstract

We prove that every entangled state is useful as a resource for the problem of minimum-error channel discrimination. More specifically, given a single copy of an arbitrary bipartite entangled state, it holds that there is an instance of a quantum channel discrimination task for which this state allows for a correct discrimination with strictly higher probability than every separable state.

  • Received 20 January 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.250501

©2009 American Physical Society

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Marco Piani1 and John Watrous2

  • 1Institute for Quantum Computing & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
  • 2Institute for Quantum Computing & School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada

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Vol. 102, Iss. 25 — 26 June 2009

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