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Path-Phase Information Complementarity for Interfering Particles through State-Discrimination

Quantum Physics 2009-03-26 v1

Abstract

We analyze the trade-off between the amounts of information obtainable on complementary properties of a qubit state by simultaneous measurements. We consider a "state discrimination" scenario wherein the same measurements are repeated, but the input states must be guessed in every run. We find a general complementarity relation for path-phase guesses by any generalized measurements in this scenario. The counterpart of this input-output mutual information (MI) reveals a hitherto unknown aspect of complementarity.

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@article{arxiv.0903.4256,
  title  = {Path-Phase Information Complementarity for Interfering Particles through State-Discrimination},
  author = {Noam Erez and Daniel Jacobs and Gershon Kurizki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4256},
  year   = {2009}
}

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