Minimal covariant observables identifying all pure states

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2013.04.002MaRDI QIDQ401685zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Claudio Carmeli, Teiko Heinosaari, Alessandro Toigo

Publication date 27 August 2014

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4355

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50)

Abstract: It has been recently shown that an observable that identifies all pure states of a d-dimensional quantum system has minimally 4d-4 outcomes or slightly less (the exact number depending on the dimension d). However, no simple construction of this type of observable with minimal number of outcomes is known. In this work we investigate the possibility to have a covariant observable that identifies all pure states and has minimal number of outcomes for this purpose. It is shown that the existence of these kind of observables depends on the dimension of the Hilbert space. The fact that these kind of observables fail to exist in some dimensions indicates that the dual pair of observables -- pure states lacks the symmetry that the dual pair of observables -- states has.

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