Concepts and Criteria for Blind Quantum Source Separation

TL;DR

This paper explores the challenges and criteria for blind quantum source separation, focusing on entanglement, probabilistic measurements, and disentanglement principles in quantum information processing.

Contribution

It introduces an unentanglement criterion for qubit pairs and discusses the implications of quantum phenomena on BSS solutions.

Findings

Established an unentanglement criterion for qubit pairs.

Highlighted the importance of disentanglement over classical independence.

Demonstrated how quantum measurement probabilities relate to state coefficients.

Abstract

Blind Source Separation (BSS) is an active domain of Classical Information Processing. The development of Quantum Information Processing has made possible the appearance of Blind Quantum Source Separation (BQSS). This article discusses some consequences of the existence of the entanglement phenomenon, and of the probabilistic aspect of quantum measurements, upon BQSS solutions. It focuses on a pair of spins initially separately prepared in a pure state, and then with an undesired coupling between these spins. An unentanglement criterion is established for the state of an arbitrary qubit pair, expressed first with probability amplitudes and secondly with probabilities. It is stressed that the concept of statistical independence of the sources, widely used in classical BSS, should be used with care in BQSS, and possibly replaced by some disentanglement principle. It is shown that the coefficients of the development of any qubit pair pure state, over the states of the standard basis, can be expressed with the probabilities of results in the measurements of well-chosen spin components.