Single-shot antidistinguishability of unitary operations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14609v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:17:27 GMT
• Title: Single-shot antidistinguishability of unitary operations
• Authors: Satyaki Manna, Anandamay Das Bhowmik,
• Abstract summary: We investigate the single-shot antidistinguishability of unitary operations.<n>For sets of three unitaries, we first prove that all maximally entangled states are equivalent in their performance as probe.<n>We also establish that union of two antidistinguishable sets of three qubit unitaries also forms a set of antidistinguishable unitaries.
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• Abstract: The notion of antidistinguishability captures the possibility of ruling out certain alternatives in a quantum experiment without identifying the actual outcome. Although extensively studied for quantum states, the antidistinguishability of quantum channels remains largely unexplored. In this work, we investigate the single-shot antidistinguishability of unitary operations. We analyse two scenarios: antidistinguishability with single-system probes and with entangled probes. For sets of three unitaries, we first prove that all maximally entangled states are equivalent in their performance as probe. In the qubit case, we further establish that maximally entangled probes are always sufficient: if a set of three qubit unitaries is antidistinguishable with either a single-system or non-maximally entangled probe, then it is also antidistinguishable with a maximally entangled one. However, in higher dimension, this equivalence fails. In \textit{dimension 3}, there exists a set of unitaries that are antidistinguishable with non-maximally entangled probe or single-system probe but not with maximally entangled probe. We also establish that union of two antidistinguishable sets of three qubit unitaries also forms a set of antidistinguishable unitaries. Lastly, we provide methods to construct antidistinguishable unitaries from non-antidistinguishable ones.

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