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Contextual advantages across two-state discrimination strategies

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Kieran Flatt *
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Joonwoo Bae
DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/ae5a53delete
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Quantum state discrimination, alongside its other applications, has recently found use as a tool for witnessing generalised contextuality. In this article, we derive noncontextuality inequalities for both conclusive and inconclusive outcomes across various guessing strategies. For minimum-error discrimination, the advantage is in terms of the confidences of individual outcomes, while for unambiguous state discrimination, it is in terms of the average guessing probability. For maximum-confidence discrimination, we show that contextual advantages occur not only for the confidence but also their average, the guessing probability, as well as the inconclusive outcome rate. Our results show that contextual advantages are observed across all two-state discrimination schemes and figures of merit. We envisage that various quantum information applications based on state discrimination may offer advantages over noncontextual theories.
Keywords:
Quantum state discrimination
Contextuality
Noncontextuality inequalities
Guessing strategies
Quantum information applications
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New Journal of Physics cover
New Journal of Physics
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korea advanced institute of science and technology
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