%0 Journal Article
%T Minimum error discrimination problem for pure qubit states
%A Boris F Samsonov
%J Physics
%D 2009
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.052305
%X The necessary and sufficient conditions for minimization of the generalized rate error for discriminating among $N$ pure qubit states are reformulated in terms of Bloch vectors representing the states. For the direct optimization problem an algorithmic solution to these conditions is indicated. A solution to the inverse optimization problem is given. General results are widely illustrated by particular cases of equiprobable states and $N=2,3,4$ pure qubit states given with different prior probabilities.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0637v2