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Protecting an unknown qubit state by weak measurement

Quantum Physics 2024-05-31 v5

Abstract

The problem of combating de-coherence by weak measurements has already been studied for the amplitude damping channel and for specific input states. We generalize this to a large four-parameter family of qubit channels and for the average fidelity over all pure states. As a by-product we classify all the qubit channels which have one invariant pure state and show that the parameter manifold of these channels is isomorphic to S2×S1×S1S^2\times S^1\times S^1 and contains many interesting subclasses of channels. The figure of merit that we use is the average input-output fidelity which we show can be increased up to 3030 percents in some cases, by tuning of the weak measurement parameter.

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@article{arxiv.2003.01341,
  title  = {Protecting an unknown qubit state by weak measurement},
  author = {Ozra Heibati and Azam Mani and Esfandiar Faizi and Vahid Karimipour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.01341},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages, Substantial revision, one author added

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