Preferred measurements: optimality and stability in quantum parameter estimation

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/12/2/023010MaRDI QIDQ2980760zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabriel A. Durkin

Publication date 3 May 2017

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2070

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: We explore precision in a measurement process incorporating pure probe states, unitary dynamics and complete measurements via a simple formalism. The concept of `information complement' is introduced. It undermines measurement precision and its minimization reveals the system properties at an optimal point. Maximally precise measurements can exhibit independence from the true value of the estimated parameter, but demanding this severely restricts the type of viable probe and dynamics, including the requirement that the Hamiltonian be block-diagonal in a basis of preferred measurements. The curvature of the information complement near a globally optimal point provides a new quantification of measurement stability.

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