PIRSA:08080056

Priors for quantum states & processes

Zyczkowski, K. (2008). Priors for quantum states & processes. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/08080056

Zyczkowski, Karol. Priors for quantum states & processes. Perimeter Institute, Aug. 29, 2008, https://pirsa.org/08080056 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:08080056,
            doi = {10.48660/08080056},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/08080056},
            author = {Zyczkowski, Karol},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Priors for quantum states \& processes},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2008},
            month = {aug},
            note = {PIRSA:08080056 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Karol Zyczkowski Jagiellonian University

DOI 10.48660/08080056
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Talk Type Conference

Abstract

As became apparent during Koenraad\'s talk, there are some important subleties to concepts like \'flat prior\' and \'uniform distribution\'... especially over probability simplices and quantum state spaces. This is a key problem for Bayesian approaches. Perhaps we\'re more interested in Jeffreys priors, Bures priors, or even something induced by the Chernoff bound! I\'d like to start a discussion of the known useful distributions over quantum states & processes, and I nominate Karol Zyckowski to lead it off.