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Equation of Motion for Estimation Fidelity of Monitored Oscillating Qubits

Quantum Physics 2017-05-31 v1

Abstract

We study the convergence properties of state estimates of an oscillating qubit being monitored by a sequence of \textit{discrete}, unsharp measurements. Our method derives a differential equation determining the evolution of the estimation fidelity from a single incremental step. When the oscillation frequency Ω\Omega is precisely known, the estimation fidelity converges exponentially fast to unity. For imprecise knowledge of Ω\Omega we derive the asypmtotic estimation fidelity.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10348,
  title  = {Equation of Motion for Estimation Fidelity of Monitored Oscillating Qubits},
  author = {Humairah Bassa and Lajos Diósi and Thomas Konrad and Hermann Uys},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10348},
  year   = {2017}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures