Distributed Quantum Hypothesis Testing Against Product States Under Zero-Rate Communication Constraints
Sreejith Sreekumar, Mario Berta, Christoph Hirche, Hao–Chung Cheng · 2025
The trade-offs between error probabilities in quantum hypothesis testing are by now well-understood in the centralized setting, but much less is known for distributed settings. Here, we study a distributed binary hypothesis testing problem to infer a bipartite quantum state shared between two remote parties, where one of these parties communicates to the tester at zero-rate, while the other party communicates to the tester at zero-rate or higher. As our main contribution, we derive an efficiently computable single-letter formula for the Stein's exponent of this problem, when the state under the alternative is product. As a key tool for proving the converse direction of our results, we develop a quantum version of the blowing-up lemma which may be of independent interest.