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Discriminating an Arbitrary Number of Pure Quantum States by the Combined CPT\mathcal{CPT} and Hermitian Measurements

Abstract

If the system is known to be in one of two non-orthogonal quantum states, ψ1|\psi_1\rangle or ψ2|\psi_2\rangle, PT\mathcal{PT}-symmetric quantum mechanics can discriminate them, \textit{in principle}, by a single measurement. We extend this approach by combining PT\mathcal{PT}-symmetric and Hermitian measurements and show that it's possible to distinguish an arbitrary number of pure quantum states by an appropriate choice of the parameters of PT\mathcal{PT}-symmetric Hamiltonian.

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