Quantum state tomography using successive measurements

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/23/235301zbMATH Open1246.81039arXiv1204.6094OpenAlexW3099084261MaRDI QIDQ2895743

P. A. Mello, A. Kalev

Publication date: 4 July 2012

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

Abstract: We describe a quantum state tomography scheme which is applicable to a system described in a Hilbert space of arbitrary finite dimensionality and is constructed from sequences of two measurements. The scheme consists of measuring the various pairs of projectors onto two bases --which have no mutually orthogonal vectors--, the two members of each pair being measured in succession. We show that this scheme implies measuring the joint quasi-probability of any pair of non-degenerate observables having the two bases as their respective eigenbases. The model Hamiltonian underlying the scheme makes use of two meters initially prepared in an arbitrary given quantum state, following the ideas that were introduced by von Neumann in his theory of measurement.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6094

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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