Theorem: Let {ρi,1≤i≤m} be a quantum state ensemble
consisting of linearly independent density operators
ρi with prior probabilities pi. Then the optimal measurement
is a von Neumann measurement with measurement operators
{Πi=PSi,1≤i≤m} where PSi is an orthogonal projection
onto an ri-dimensional subspace Si of H (*Hilbert space* of density operators) with ri=rank(ρi) and PSiPSj=δijPSi (orthonormality of operators).
This is a theorem in Quantum Information which solely uses Linear Algebra for states represented as density operators. For my case, each pi=14 and all the four ρi are linearly independent. Now do I find the PSi for each of the density matrix? Will it be just the sum of the projectors built from eigen-vectors of that density matrix? I did this but then found that the orthonormality is not followed because two of my density matrices have some common eigen-vectors (2 eigenvectors are common out of 4 for two such density matrices). How do we construct PSi for each ρi?