Quantum State Discrimination With Stabilizer Circuits

Abstract:The task of quantum state discrimination provides an operational characterization of distinguishability and plays a central role in quantum information science. Since the achievable success probability in quantum state discrimination depends both on the states being discriminated and on the allowed measurements, it is natural to study discrimination under physically motivated measurement constraints. Here, we investigate minimum-error quantum state discrimination under measurements implementable by both fixed and adaptive stabilizer circuits. Given arbitrary stabilizer-state ancillas, we show that fixed stabilizer circuits provide no additional discrimination power, whereas adaptive circuits do. Then, focusing on single-qubit systems, we derive analytical expressions for the success probability across both circuit classes when supplied with arbitrary (non-stabilizer) ancillas, showing that the performance gap between fixed and adaptive circuits persists. We further consider discrimination with non-stabilizerness incorporated directly into the measurement operators. Here, the optimization is formulated as a semidefinite program, and analytical bounds interpolating between the stabilizer and Helstrom limits for qubits are derived. Finally, we illustrate applications in quantum random access codes and bounds on unitary synthesis fidelity with a finite number of magic states.

arXiv:2607.27339 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2607.27339v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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