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Super fidelity and related metrics

  • Zhi-Hua Chen EMAIL logo , Zhihao Ma , Fu-Lin Zhang and Jing-Ling Chen
From the journal Open Physics

Abstract

We report a new metric of quantum states. This metric is built up from super-fidelity, which has a deep connection with the Uhlmann-Jozsa fidelity and plays an important role in quantum information processing. We find that the new metric possesses some interesting properties.

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Published Online: 2011-4-30
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