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Publications and source records attributed to Michael Nathanson.
Several new trace norm inequalities are established for 2n x 2n block matrices, in the special case where the four n x n blocks are diagonal. Some of the inequalities are non-commutative analogs of Hanner's inequality, others describe the behavior of the trace norm under re-ordering of diagonal entries of the blocks.
We examine the "Guessing Secrets" problem arising in internet routing, in which the goal is to discover two or more objects from a known finite set. We propose a quantum algorithm using O(1) calls to an O(logN) oracle. This improves upon the best known classical result, which uses O(logN) questions and requires an additional O(logN^3) steps to produce the answer. In showing the possibilities of this algorithm, we extend the types of questions and function oracles that the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm can be used to solve.
We give examples of qubit channels that require three input states in order to achieve the Holevo capacity.