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We tackle the dynamical description of the quantum measurement process, by explicitly addressing the interaction between the system under investigation with the measurement apparatus, the latter ultimately considered as macroscopic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 A. De Pasquale , C. Foti , A. Cuccoli , V. Giovannetti , P. Verrucchi

To mitigate dissipative effects from environmental interactions and efficiently stabilize quantum states, time-optimal control has emerged as an effective strategy for open quantum systems. This paper extends the framework by incorporating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yunyan Lee , Ian R. Petersen , Daoyi Dong

A quantum measurement can be described by a set of matrices, one for each possible outcome, which represents the positive operator-valued measure (POVM) of the sensor. Efficient protocols of POVM extraction for arbitrary sensors are…

In this paper we present a protocol for the implementation of a positive-operator-valued measure (POVM) on massive fermionic qubits. We present methods for implementing non-dispersive qubit transport, spin rotations and spin polarizing…

Here we propose an implementation of all possible Positive Operator Value Measures (POVMs) of two-photon polarization states. POVMs are the most general class of quantum measurements. Our setup requires linear optics, Bell State…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. E. Ahnert , M. C. Payne

We present a new method to measure the work $w$ performed on a driven quantum system and to sample its probability distribution $P(w)$. The method is based on a simple fact that remained unnoticed until now: Work on a quantum system can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Augusto J. Roncaglia , Federico Cerisola , Juan Pablo Paz

We discuss a possibility to build a programmable quantum measurement device (a "quantum multimeter"). That is, a device that would be able to perform various desired generalized, positive operator value measure (POVM) measurements depending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Miloslav Dusek , Vladimir Buzek

The expectation value <O> of an arbitrary operator O can be obtained via a universal measuring apparatus that is independent of O, by changing only the data-processing of the outcomes. Such a ``universal detector'' performs a joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. D'Ariano , P. Perinotti , M. F. Sacchi

Symmetric informationally complete positive operator valued measures (SIC-POVMs) are studied within the framework of the probability representation of quantum mechanics. A SIC-POVM is shown to be a special case of the probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-16 S. N. Filippov , V. I. Man'ko

We present a general formalism for giving a measure space paired with a separable Hilbert space a quantum version based on normalized positive operator-valued measure. The latter are built from families of density operators labelled by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jean Pierre Gazeau , Barbara Heller

It is a well-known fact that the optimal POVM for quantum state tomography is the symmetric, informationally complete, positive operator valued measure (SIC-POVM). We investigate the same problem only in the case when there are some a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Dénes Petz , László Ruppert

The spin-coherent-state positive-operator-valued-measure (POVM) is a fundamental measurement in quantum science, with applications including tomography, metrology, teleportation, benchmarking, and measurement of Husimi phase space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Ezad Shojaee , Christopher S. Jackson , Carlos A. Riofrio , Amir Kalev , Ivan H. Deutsch

This paper presents an overview of close parallels that exist between the theory of positive operator-valued measures (POVMs) associated with a separable Hilbert space and the theory of frames on that space, including its most important…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-08 Bill Moran , Stephen Howard , Doug Cochran

Recently foundational issues of applicability of the formalism of quantum mechanics (QM) to cognitive psychology, decision making, and psychophysics attracted a lot of interest. In particular, in \cite{DKBB} the possibility to use of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-30 Andrei Khrennikov , Irina Basieva

We discuss a generalization of POVM which is used in quantum-like modeling of mental processing.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Irina Basieva , Andrei Khrennikov

We introduce several notions of random positive operator valued measures (POVMs), and we prove that some of them are equivalent. We then study statistical properties of the effect operators for the canonical examples, obtaining limiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-27 Teiko Heinosaari , Maria Anastasia Jivulescu , Ion Nechita

Evaluating the amount of information obtained from non-orthogonal quantum states is an important topic in the field of quantum information. The commonly used evaluation method is Holevo bound, which only provides a loose upper bound for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 Wei Li , Shengmei Zhao

We show that a one-dimensional discrete time quantum walk can be used to implement a generalized measurement in terms of positive operator value measure (POVM) on a single qubit. More precisely, we show that for a single qubit any set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Pawel Kurzynski , Antoni Wojcik

Quantum theory combines density matrices, Born probabilities, tensor-product composites, positive-operator-valued measures (POVMs), and quantum channels. In a finite-dimensional causal operational theory, we prove that two postulates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Kenji Nakahira

We characterize the asymptotic performance of a class of positive operator valued measurements (POVMs) where the only task is to make measurements on independent and identically distributed quantum states on finite-dimensional systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 Janis Nötzel