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A note on the inner products of pure states and their antidistinguishability

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arxiv 2206.08313 v1 pith:4J5LSSPB submitted 2022-06-16 quant-ph

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A set of d quantum states is said to be antidistinguishable if there exists a d-outcome POVM that can perfectly identify which state was not measured. A conjecture by Havl\'i\v{c}ek and Barrett states that if a set of d pure states has small pair-wise inner products, then the set must be antidistinguishable. In this note we provide a certificate of antidistinguishability via semidefinite programming duality and use it to provide a counterexample to this conjecture when d = 4.

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