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Extended necessary condition for local operations and classical communication: Tight bound for all measurements
We give a necessary condition that a separable measurement can be implemented
by local quantum operations and classical communication (LOCC) in any finite
number of rounds of communication, generalizing and strengthening a result
obtained previously. That earlier result involved a bound that is tight when
the number of measurement operators defining the measurement is relatively
small. The present results generalize that bound to one that is tight for any
finite number of measurement operators, and we also provide an extension which
holds when that number is infinite. We apply these results to the famous
example on a  system known as "domino states", which were the first
demonstration of nonlocality without entanglement. Our new necessary condition
provides an additional way of showing that these states cannot be perfectly
distinguished by (finite-round) LOCC. It directly shows that this conclusion
also holds for their cousins, the rotated domino states. This illustrates the
usefulness of the present results, since our earlier necessary condition, which
these results generalize, is not strong enough to reach a conclusion about the
domino states.Comment: 6 pages, no figures, comments welcome. Version 2 fixes some issues
  with the case of an infinite number of measurement operators. Version 3 has a
  minor change to the title and an added footnote about the fact that using an
  enlarged Hilbert space is not helpfu
Transparency and Innuendo: An Alternative to Reactive Over-Disclosure
Lassman examines the tension between transparency and other public health interests in the context of the FDA\u27s proposed Drug Watch web site. He argues that although the FDA proposal seeks to achieve a laudable goal--the prompt communication of important useful safety information about drug products to physicians and patients-- it fails to properly balance transparency and other legitimate public health interests
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