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Pure state `really' informationally complete with rank-1 POVM

Quantum Physics 2017-11-22 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

What is the minimal number of elements in a rank-1 positive-operator-valued measure (POVM) which can uniquely determine any pure state in dd-dimensional Hilbert space Hd\mathcal{H}_d? The known result is that the number is no less than 3d23d-2. We show that this lower bound is not tight except for d=2d=2 or 4. Then we give an upper bound of 4d34d-3. For d=2d=2, many rank-1 POVMs with four elements can determine any pure states in H2\mathcal{H}_2. For d=3d=3, we show eight is the minimal number by construction. For d=4d=4, the minimal number is in the set of {10,11,12,13}\{10,11,12,13\}. We show that if this number is greater than 10, an unsettled open problem can be solved that three orthonormal bases can not distinguish all pure states in H4\mathcal{H}_4. For any dimension dd, we construct d+2k2d+2k-2 adaptive rank-1 positive operators for the reconstruction of any unknown pure state in Hd\mathcal{H}_d, where 1kd1\le k \le d.

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@article{arxiv.1711.07585,
  title  = {Pure state `really' informationally complete with rank-1 POVM},
  author = {Yu Wang and Yun Shang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07585},
  year   = {2017}
}