Shor's Conjecture Is True: Projective Measurements Suffice for Binary Accessible Information

arXiv:2609.19003 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-08-04 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-04

Updated: 2026-08-04

Terminology

• Hilbert Space — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Uhlmann's theorem for measured divergences
• Proof of the Orthogonal Measurement Conjecture for Qubit States
• On Shor's conjecture on the accessible information of quantum dichotomies

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