用相对熵最小变化原理统一量子测量构造,发现新测量族并揭示其热力学意义。
Unifying quantum measurement constructions via a relative-entropy minimum change principle
- 基于量子相对熵定义最小变化原则,建立最优测量的闭式解
- 导出软最小热测量新族,其为熵正则化半定规划的最优解
- 统一了优良测量与费米-狄拉克热测量,适用于量子统计推断
最小变化原理为经典概率中的贝叶斯逆通道提供了信息论表征,并被提议扩展至量子信息理论。本文利用量子相对熵,研究量子统计推断中的最小变化原则。考虑基于经典到量子制备通道的前向过程和基于量子到经典测量通道的反向过程,建立了该原则下最优测量的闭式表征,且可通过仅含一个无约束厄米变量的对偶形式求解。该视角可统一若干著名测量,包括优良测量和费米-狄拉克热测量,并由此发现一类新测量,称为软最小热测量。进一步证明软最小热测量是熵正则化半定优化问题的最优解,表明其在测量中扮演的角色类似于统计力学中的热态。最后,证明了相对熵最小变化原则的可加性,并研究了费米-狄拉克热测量在量子假设检验中的性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The minimum change principle provides an information-theoretic characterization of the Bayes reversal channel in classical probability theory and has recently been proposed as a framework for extending Bayes' rule to quantum information theory. Using quantum relative entropy, we investigate a minimum change principle for the setting of quantum statistical inference. Specifically, we consider a forward process based on a classical-to-quantum preparation channel and a reverse process based on a quantum-to-classical measurement channel. We establish a closed-form characterization of measurements that are optimal for this principle, and this optimal measurement can be found via a dual formulation involving a single unconstrained Hermitian variable. This perspective allows us to recover some notable measurements within the same framework, including pretty good measurements and Fermi-Dirac thermal measurements, and we use it to discover a novel family that we call softmin thermal measurements. We further show that softmin thermal measurements arise as optimal solutions to entropy-regularized semidefinite optimization problems, demonstrating that they play a role for measurements analogous to that of thermal states in statistical mechanics. Finally, we prove an additivity property for the relative-entropy minimum change principle and investigate the performance of Fermi-Dirac thermal measurements for quantum hypothesis testing.
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