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We consider group-covariant positive operator valued measures (POVMs) on a finite dimensional quantum system. Following Neumark's theorem a POVM can be implemented by an orthogonal measurement on a larger system. Accordingly, our goal is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Thomas Decker , Dominik Janzing , Martin Roetteler

While quantum state tomography (QST) remains the gold standard for benchmarking and verifying quantum devices, it requires an exponentially large number of measurements and classical computational resources for generic quantum many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Zhen Qin , Casey Jameson , Alireza Goldar , Michael B. Wakin , Zhexuan Gong , Zhihui Zhu

We introduce and implement a technique to extend the quantum computational power of cluster states by replacing some projective measurements with generalized quantum measurements (POVMs). As an experimental demonstration we fully realize an…

Quantum process tomography (QPT) is crucial for advancing quantum technologies, including quantum computers, quantum networks and quantum sensors. Shadow process tomography (SPT) utilizes the Choi isomorphism to map QPT to shadow state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Haigang Wang , Kan He

Manipulation of qudits in optical tables is a difficult and nonscalable task. The use of integrated optical circuits opens new possibilities for the generation, manipulation, and characterization of high dimensional states besides the ease…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 W. R. Cardoso , D. F. Barros , M. R. Barros , S. Pádua

Constructing an integrated large-scale qubit system of realistic size requires addressing the challenge of physical crowding among qubits. This constraint poses an issue of coarse-grained (CG) measurement, wherein information from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Donghun Jung , Young-Wook Cho , Yosep Kim , Junghyun Lee

In this paper we provide a consistent framework to address the notorious decomposition of the single-photon total angular momentum (TAM) into a spin (SAM) and an orbital (OAM) component. In particular, we find that the canonical SAM and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Mario Motta , Giacomo Guarnieri , Ludovico Lanz , Beatrix Hiesmayr

We propose an estimation method for quantum measurement tomography (QMT) based on semidefinite programming (SDP), and discuss how it may be employed to detect experimental imperfections, such as shot noise and/or faulty preparation of the…

It is well-known in quantum information theory that a positive operator valued measure (POVM) is the most general kind of quantum measurement. Mathematically, a quantum probability is a normalised POVM, namely a function on certain subsets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Kyler S. Johnson , Michael J. Kozdron

Quantum computers solve ever more complex tasks using steadily growing system sizes. Characterizing these quantum systems is vital, yet becoming increasingly challenging. The gold-standard is quantum state tomography (QST), capable of fully…

We characterize the extremal points of the convex set of quantum measurements that are covariant under a finite-dimensional projective representation of a compact group, with action of the group on the measurement probability space which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Chiribella , G. M. D'Ariano

According to a well-known principle of quantum physics, the statistics of the outcomes of any quantum experiment are governed by a Positive Operator-Valued Measure (POVM). In particular, for experiments designed to measure a specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Sheldon Goldstein , Roderich Tumulka , Nino Zanghì

An implementation of the positive operator valued measure (POVM) is given. By using this POVM one can realize the probabilistic teleportation of an unknown two-particle state.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Feng-Li Yan , Ting Gao , You-Cheng Li

We investigate the relationship between projective measurements and positive operator-valued measures (POVMs) in the task of quantum steering. A longstanding open problem in the field has been whether POVMs are more powerful than projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Yujie Zhang , Eric Chitambar

We introduce positive operator-valued measure (POVM) generated by the projective unitary representation of a direct product of locally compact Abelian group $G$ with its dual $\hat G$. The method is based upon the Pontryagin duality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Grigori Amosov

We show that measuring any two quantum states by a random POVM, under a suitable definition of randomness, gives probability distributions having total variation distance at least a universal constant times the Frobenius distance between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pranab Sen

Generalized quantum measurements play a crucial role in quantum mechanics, and symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measurements (SIC POVMs) provide a powerful and flexible framework for extracting information from…

A generic unital positive operator-valued measure (POVM), which transforms a given stationary pure state to an arbitrary statistical state with perfect decoherence, is presented. This allows one to operationally realize thermalization as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-09 Sumiyoshi Abe , Yuichi Itto , Mamoru Matsunaga

The most general type of measurement in quantum physics is modeled by a positive operator-valued measure (POVM). Mathematically, a POVM is a generalization of a measure, whose values are not real numbers, but positive operators on a Hilbert…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Frank Roumen

Each platonic solid defines a single-qubit positive operator valued measure (POVM) by interpreting its vertices as points on the Bloch sphere. We construct simple circuits for implementing this kind of measurements and other simple types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Decker , Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth