The solution to the frame quantum detection problem (Q2326865)

The authors give a complete solution to the frame quantum detection problem and discuss the problem in two cases: the quantum injectivity problem and the quantum state estimation problem. First they discuss the problem for the real and the complex finite dimensional case: They give two complete classifications of the sets of vectors which solve the injectivity problem and construct them. They also show that the Parseval frames which give injectivity are dense in the Parseval frames. They classify all frames for which the state estimation problem is solvable, and when it not solvable they give the best approximation to a solution. For the infinite dimensional case they give necessary and sufficient conditions for a frame to solve the state estimation problem for all measurements in \(\ell_1\) and show that there is no injective frame for which the state estimation problem is solvable for all measurements in \(\ell_2\). When the state estimation problem does not have an exact solution, the best approximation to a solution is obtained.