Derivation and physical interpretation of the optimum detection operators for coherent-state signals

Abstract
The optimum detection operators are derived for several linearly independent signal sets. The quantum minimax strategy is applied to the M-ary coherent state signals such as binary phase shift, ternary symmetric, ternary phase shift, and quadrature phase shift. It is shown that the detection process induces a kind of quantum interference between signal quantum states and measurement states. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

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