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Joint measurement of two unsharp observables of a qubit

Quantum Physics 2008-09-17 v2

Abstract

We present a single inequality as the necessary and sufficient condition for two unsharp observables of a two-level system to be jointly measurable in a single apparatus and construct explicitly the joint observables. A complementarity inequality arising from the condition of joint measurement, which generalizes Englert's duality inequality, is derived as the trade-off between the unsharpnesses of two jointly measurable observables.

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@article{arxiv.0805.1538,
  title  = {Joint measurement of two unsharp observables of a qubit},
  author = {Sixia Yu and Naile Liu and Li Li and C. H. Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.1538},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages 3 figures