The unavoidable information flow to environment in quantum measurements

DOI10.1063/1.5029399MaRDI QIDQ4586493zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Erkka Theodor Haapasalo, Teiko Heinosaari, Takayuki Miyadera

Publication date 13 September 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08681

zbMATH Keywords

joint and succeeding measurements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator spaces and completely bounded maps (46L07) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: One of the basic lessons of quantum theory is that one cannot obtain information on an unknown quantum state without disturbing it. Hence, by performing a certain measurement, we limit the other possible measurements that can be effectively implemented on the original input state. It has been recently shown that one can implement sequentially any device, either channel or observable, which is compatible with the first measurement [T. Heinosaari and T. Miyadera: Phys. Rev. A Vol 91 (2015), 022110]. In this work we prove that this can be done, apart from some special cases, only when the succeeding device is implemented on a larger system than just the input system. This means that some part of the still available quantum information has been flown to the environment and cannot be gathered by accessing the input system only. We characterize the size of the post-measurement system by determining the class of measurements for the observable in question that allow the subsequent realization of any measurement process compatible with the said observable. We also study the class of measurements that allow the subsequent realization of any observable jointly measurable with the first one and show that these two classes coincide when the first observable is extreme.

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