On Quantum State Observability and Measurement
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We consider the problem of determining the state of a quantum system given one or more readings of the expectation value of an observable. The system is assumed to be a finite dimensional quantum control system for which we can influence the dynamics by generating all the unitary evolutions in a Lie group. We investigate to what extent, by an appropriate sequence of evolutions and measurements, we can obtain information on the initial state of the system. We present a system theoretic viewpoint of this problem in that we study the {\it observability} of the system. In this context, we characterize the equivalence classes of indistinguishable states and propose algorithms for state identification.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0307127,
title = {On Quantum State Observability and Measurement},
author = {Domenico D'Alessandro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0307127},
year = {2009}
}