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On coexistence and joint measurability of rank-1 quantum observables

Quantum Physics 2015-06-16 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that a rank-1 quantum observable (POVM) M is jointly measurable with a quantum observable M' exactly when M' is a smearing of M. If M is extreme, rank-1 and discrete then M and M' are coexistent if and only if they are jointly measurable.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3154,
  title  = {On coexistence and joint measurability of rank-1 quantum observables},
  author = {Juha-Pekka Pellonpää},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3154},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Theorem 2 of v1 and Example 1 of v2 are incorrect