1301.1094 (Giulio Chiribella et al.)

Confusability graphs for symmetric sets of quantum states    [PDF]

Giulio Chiribella, Yuxiang Yang

For a set of quantum states generated by the action of a group, we consider the graph obtained by considering two group elements adjacent whenever the corresponding states are non-orthogonal. We analyze the structure of the connected components of the graph and show two applications to the optimal estimation of an unknown group action and to the search for decoherence free subspaces of quantum channels with symmetry.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1094