Dynamical quantum tomography

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Abstract: We consider quantum state tomography with measurement procedures of the following type: First, we subject the quantum state we aim to identify to a know time evolution for a desired period of time. Afterwards we perform a measurement with a fixed measurement set-up. This procedure can then be repeated for other periods of time, the measurement set-up however remains unaltered. Given an n-dimensional system with suitable unitary dynamics, we show that any two states can be discriminated by performing a measurement with a set-up that has n outcomes at n+1 points in time. Furthermore, we consider scenarios where prior information restricts the set of states to a subset of lower dimensionality. Given an n-dimensional system with suitable unitary dynamics and a semi-algebraic subset mathcalR of its state space, we show that any two states of the subset can be discriminated by performing a measurement with a set-up that has n outcomes at l steps of the time evolution if (n−1)lge2dimmathcalR. In addition, by going beyond unitary dynamics, we show that one can in fact reduce to a set-up with the minimal number of two outcomes.












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