Finitely Repeated Adversarial Quantum Hypothesis Testing

Abstract

We formulate a passive quantum detector based on a quantum hypothesis testing framework under the setting of finite sample size. In particular, we exploit the fundamental limits of performance of the passive quantum detector asymptotically. Under the assumption that the attacker adopts separable optimal strategies, we derive that the worst-case average error bound converges to zero exponentially in terms of the number of repeated observations, which serves as a variation of quantum Sanov's theorem. We illustrate the general decaying results of miss rate numerically, depicting that the `naive' detector manages to achieve a miss rate and a false alarm rate both exponentially decaying to zero given infinitely many quantum states, although the miss rate decays to zero at a much slower rate than a quantum non-adversarial counterpart. Finally we adopt our formulations upon a case study of detection with quantum radars.