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arxiv quant-ph/0102116 v1 pith:NRNQHPQY submitted 2001-02-22 quant-ph

Serge Massar , Graeme Mitchison , Stefano Pironio This is my paper · ORCID
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We show that it is not possible to discriminate two close transparencies without a certain number of photons being absorbed. We extend this to the discrimination of patterns of transparency (images).

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