Optimal pointers for joint measurement of σxand σzvia homodyne detection

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/11/013MaRDI QIDQ3379381zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bas Janssens, Luc Bouten

Publication date 6 April 2006

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510086

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: We study a model of a two-level system (i.e. a qubit) in interaction with the electromagnetic field. By means of homodyne detection, one field-quadrature is observed continuously in time. Due to the interaction, information about the initial state of the qubit is transferred into the field, thus influencing the homodyne measurement results. We construct random variables (pointers) on the probability space of homodyne measurement outcomes having distributions close to the initial distributions of sigma-x and sigma-z. Using variational calculus, we find the pointers that are optimal. These optimal pointers are very close to hitting the bound imposed by Heisenberg's uncertainty relation on joint measurement of two non-commuting observables. We close the paper by giving the probability densities of the pointers.

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