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The "mean king's problem" with continuous variables

Quantum Physics 2007-10-17 v1

Abstract

We present the solution to the "mean king's problem" in the continuous variable setting. We show that in this setting, the outcome of a randomly-selected projective measurement of any linear combination of the canonical variables x and p can be ascertained with arbitrary precision. Moreover, we show that the solution is in turn a solution to an associated "conjunctive" version of the problem, unique to continuous variables, where the inference task is to ascertain all the joint outcomes of a simultaneous measurement of any number of linear combinations of x and p.

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@article{arxiv.0710.2952,
  title  = {The "mean king's problem" with continuous variables},
  author = {Alonso Botero and Yakir Aharonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.2952},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, no figures

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