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Quantum measurements on finite dimensional systems: relabeling and mixing

Quantum Physics 2012-10-23 v2

Abstract

Concentrating on finite dimensional systems, we show that one can limit to extremal rank-1 POVMs if two simple procedures of mixing and relabeling are permitted. We demonstrate that any finite outcome POVM can be obtained from extremal rank-1 POVMs with these two procedures. In particular, extremal POVMs with higher rank are just relabelings of extremal rank-1 POVMs and their structure is therefore clarified.

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@article{arxiv.1104.4886,
  title  = {Quantum measurements on finite dimensional systems: relabeling and mixing},
  author = {Erkka Haapasalo and Teiko Heinosaari and Juha-Pekka Pellonpää},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.4886},
  year   = {2012}
}

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one new section in v2