Spectra and variance of quantum random variables

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2015.09.055MaRDI QIDQ891382zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Douglas Farenick, Michael J. Kozdron, Sarah Plosker

Publication date 17 November 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03213

zbMATH Keywords

variancepositive operator-valued measurequantum noisesmearingquantum probability measurequantum random variable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector-valued measures and integration (46G10) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Limit theorems for vector-valued random variables (infinite-dimensional case) (60B12)

Abstract: We study essentially bounded quantum random variables and show that the Gelfand spectrum of such a quantum random variable coincides with the hypoconvex hull of its essential range. Moreover, a notion of operator-valued variance is introduced, leading to a formulation of the moment problem in the context of quantum probability spaces in terms of operator-theoretic properties involving semi-invariant subspaces and spectral theory. As an application of quantum variance, new measures of random and inherent quantum noise are introduced for measurements of quantum systems, modifying some recent ideas of Polterovich.

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