Table 1 Summary of the four overlap estimation strategies
From: Experimental benchmarking of quantum state overlap estimation strategies with photonic systems
 | TT | TP | SCM | OST |
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Measurement | \({\hat{\sigma }}_{i},\,{\hat{\sigma }}_{i}\) | \(\,{\hat{\sigma }}_{i},|\widetilde{\phi }\rangle \langle \widetilde{\phi }|\) | \({\hat{E}}_{-}=|{\Psi }_{-}{{\rangle }}{{\langle }}{\Psi }_{-}|\) | HOMI, PPNRD |
Estimator \(\widetilde{c}\) | \({|\langle \widetilde{\psi }|\widetilde{\phi }\rangle |}^{2}\) | k/N | 1 − 2k/N | (1 − 2k/N)/Γ |
v(c, N) | 4κc(1 − c)/N | (2κ + 1)c(1 − c)/N | (1 − c2)/N | (3 − Γc)(1 − Γ2 c2)/2NΓ2 |