Minimum-error discrimination between subsets of linearly dependent quantum states
arXiv:quant-ph/0112171 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.65.050305
Abstract
A measurement strategy is developed for a new kind of hypothesis testing. It assigns, with minimum probability of error, the state of a quantum system to one or the other of two complementary subsets of a set of N given non-orthogonal quantum states occurring with given a priori probabilities. A general analytical solution is obtained for N states that are restricted to a two-dimensional subspace of the Hilbert space of the system. The result for the special case of three arbitrary but linearly dependent states is applied to a variety of sets of three states that are symmetric and equally probable. It is found that, in this case, the minimum error probability for distinguishing one of the states from the other two is only about half as large as the minimum error probability for distinguishing all three states individually.
Representation improved and generalized, references added. Accepted as a Rapid Communication in Phys. Rev. A
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