Tasks and premises in quantum state determination

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/7/075302zbMATH Open1288.81007arXiv1308.5502OpenAlexW2092850756WikidataQ62561380 ScholiaQ62561380MaRDI QIDQ5404789FDOQ5404789

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

Publication date: 28 March 2014

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

Abstract: The purpose of quantum tomography is to determine an unknown quantum state from measurement outcome statistics. There are two obvious ways to generalize this setting. First, our task need not be the determination of any possible input state but only some input states, for instance pure states. Second, we may have some prior information, or premise, which guarantees that the input state belongs to some subset of states, for instance the set of states with rank less than half of the dimension of the Hilbert space. We investigate state determination under these two supplemental features, concentrating on the cases where the task and the premise are statements about the rank of the unknown state. We characterize the structure of quantum observables (POVMs) that are capable of fulfilling these type of determination tasks. After the general treatment we focus on the class of covariant phase space observables, thus providing physically relevant examples of observables both capable and incapable of performing these tasks. In this context, the effect of noise is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5502

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zbMATH Keywords

measurementquantum informationquantum mechanicsquantum statequantum tomographyHeisenberg uncertainty principleno-cloning theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50)

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