Probing quantum state space: does one have to learn everything to learn something?

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2016.0866MaRDI QIDQ4647212zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Claudio Carmeli, Teiko Heinosaari, J. Schultz, Alessandro Toigo

Publication date 4 January 2019

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04388

zbMATH Keywords

fidelityquantum tomographyvon Neumann entropyquantum measurementpurity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: Determining the state of a quantum system is a consuming procedure. For this reason, whenever one is interested only in some particular property of a state, it would be desirable to design a measurement setup that reveals this property with as little effort as possible. Here we investigate whether, in order to successfully complete a given task of this kind, one needs an informationally complete measurement, or if something less demanding would suffice. The first alternative means that in order to complete the task, one needs a measurement which fully determines the state. We formulate the task as a membership problem related to a partitioning of the quantum state space and, in doing so, connect it to the geometry of the state space. For a general membership problem we prove various sufficient criteria that force informational completeness, and we explicitly treat several physically relevant examples. For the specific cases that do not require informational completeness, we also determine bounds on the minimal number of measurement outcomes needed to ensure success in the task.

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