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Local asymptotic normality for qubit states

arXiv:quant-ph/0512075 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.73.052108

Abstract

We consider n identically prepared qubits and study the asymptotic properties of the joint state ρ^{\otimes n}. We show that for all individual states ρsituated in a local neighborhood of size 1/\sqrt{n} of a fixed state ρ^0, the joint state converges to a displaced thermal equilibrium state of a quantum harmonic oscillator. The precise meaning of the convergence is that there exist physical transformations T_{n} (trace preserving quantum channels) which map the qubits states asymptotically close to their corresponding oscillator state, uniformly over all states in the local neighborhood. A few consequences of the main result are derived. We show that the optimal joint measurement in the Bayesian set-up is also optimal within the pointwise approach. Moreover, this measurement converges to the heterodyne measurement which is the optimal joint measurement of position and momentum for the quantum oscillator. A problem of local state discrimination is solved using local asymptotic normality.

16 pages, 3 figures, published version

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