Parallel quantum channel discrimination and numerical ranges in tensor product subspaces

@misc{bilek2026parallel,
  title = {{Parallel quantum channel discrimination and numerical ranges in tensor product subspaces}},
  author = {Adam Bílek and Paulina Lewandowska and Ryszard Kukulski},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.20781},
  eprint = {2609.20781},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20781},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - Parallel quantum channel discrimination and numerical ranges in tensor product subspaces
AU  - Adam Bílek
AU  - Paulina Lewandowska
AU  - Ryszard Kukulski
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/17
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.20781
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20781
AB  - Quantum channel discrimination plays a crucial role in quantum information theory. Of particular interest is the case in which the channels can be discriminated perfectly. In this work, we focus on the perfect quantum channel discrimination task in a parallel scheme. We develop an SDP formulation combined with a bisection procedure to compute a quantum state for perfect discrimination in time linear in the number of copies. In addition, we obtain the minimal number of copies of quantum channels to achieve perfect discrimination. Thanks to that, we settle in the affirmative Conjecture 1 of Duan, Guo, Li and Li [arXiv:1605.02294, IEEE ISIT 2016], which characterizes the number of parallel uses needed to discriminate perfectly a distinguished family of operator subspaces. All our results are obtained using the notion and basic properties of the numerical range. In particular, the key fact that we prove and use is that the minimal angle of the numerical range of a tensor product of matrix subspaces equals the sum of the minimal angles of the numerical ranges of the individual subspaces.
ER  -