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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.180501
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- EU project SOLID
- EU project SQUTEC
- MPI program
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)
- EPSRC [EP/G009821/1]
- EPSRC [EP/G009821/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G009821/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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An important task for quantum-information processing is optimal discrimination between two nonorthogonal quantum states, which until now has been realized only optically. Here, we present and compare experimental realizations of optimal quantum measurements for distinguishing between two nonorthogonal quantum states encoded in a single N-14 nuclear spin at a nitrogen-vacancy defect in diamond. Implemented measurement schemes are the minimum-error measurement (known as Helstrom measurement), unambiguous state discrimination using a standard projective measurement, and optimal unambiguous state discrimination [known as Ivanovic-Dieks-Peres (IDP) measurement], which utilizes a three-dimensional Hilbert space. This allows us to benchmark the IDP measurement against the standard projective measurements. Measurement efficiencies are found to be above 80% for all schemes and reach a value of 90% for the IDP measurement.
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