Timeline for Can you distinguish between $|0\rangle, |1\rangle$, and $\frac{1}{\sqrt 2} (|0\rangle + |1\rangle)$?
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| Jun 15, 2023 at 18:51 | answer | added | James | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 28, 2023 at 19:22 | comment | added | user1936752 |
So what is the correct procedure to maximize the probability of success in finding exactly which of the three numbers were received and not just the case of X or not X which is what Mike and Ike and the accepted answer handle?
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| May 27, 2023 at 19:26 | vote | accept | Viliam Búr | ||
| May 27, 2023 at 16:25 | history | edited | Daniele Cuomo |
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| May 27, 2023 at 0:07 | comment | added | Mark Spinelli | p. 92 of Nielsen and Chuang gives a Positive Operator Valued Measurement (POVM) to distinguish $|0\rangle$ from $|+\rangle=\frac{1}{\sqrt 2}(|0\rangle+|1\rangle)$. | |
| May 26, 2023 at 23:57 | history | edited | Mark Spinelli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 26, 2023 at 22:50 | answer | added | Joseph Geipel | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 26, 2023 at 21:46 | comment | added | Craig Gidney | IIRC this exact case is explained as an example somewhere in Mike & Ike when talking about POVMs. | |
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| S May 26, 2023 at 20:28 | history | asked | Viliam Búr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |