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Positive Operator Value Measures (POVMs) are the most general class of quantum measurements. We propose a setup in which all possible POVMs of a single photon polarization state (corresponding to all possible sets of two-dimensional Kraus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. E. Ahnert , M. C. Payne

We report an experimental implementation of a single-qubit generalised measurement scenario(POVM) based on a quantum walk model. The qubit is encoded in a single-photon polarisation. The photon performs a quantum walk on an array of optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Yuan-yuan Zhao , Neng-kun Yu , Pawe Kurzynski , Guo-yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Generalized quantum measurements are an important extension of projective or von Neumann measurements, in that they can be used to describe any measurement that can be implemented on a quantum system. We describe how to realize two…

We describe a method to perform any generalized purity-preserving measurement of a qubit with techniques tailored to superconducting systems. First, we consider two methods for realizing a two-outcome partial projection: using a thresholded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Justin Dressel , Todd A. Brun , Alexander N. Korotkov

Informationally overcomplete measurements find important applications in quantum tomography and quantum state estimation. The most popular are maximal sets of mutually unbiased bases, for which trace relations between measurement operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Katarzyna Siudzińska

Generalized quantum measurements (POVMs or POMs) are important for optimally extracting information for quantum communication and computation. The standard realization via the Neumark extension requires extensive resources in the form of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erika Andersson , Daniel K. L. Oi

We obtain a formal characterization of the compatibility or otherwise of a set of positive-operator-valued measures (POVMs) via their Naimark extensions. We show that a set of POVMs is jointly measurable if and only if there exists a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Arindam Mitra , Sibasish Ghosh , Prabha Mandayam

Informationally complete (IC) positive operator-valued measures (POVMs) are generalized quantum measurements that offer advantages over the standard computational basis readout of qubits. For instance, IC-POVMs enable efficient extraction…

In many a traditional physics textbook, a quantum measurement is defined as a projective measurement represented by a Hermitian operator. In quantum information theory, however, the concept of a measurement is dealt with in complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Ravi Kunjwal , Chris Heunen , Tobias Fritz

We study the distinguishability norms associated to families of locally restricted POVMs on multipartite systems. These norms (introduced by Matthews, Wehner and Winter) quantify how quantum measurements, subject to locality constraints,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Guillaume Aubrun , Cécilia Lancien

It is a crucial feature of quantum mechanics that not all measurements are compatible with each other. However, if measurements suffer from noise they may lose their incompatibility. Here, we consider the effect of white noise and determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Martin J. Renner

We give a complete characterization for pure quantum measurements, i.e., for POVMs which are extremals in the convex set of all POVMs. Such measurements are free from classical noise. The characterization is valid both in discrete and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

A bipartite Bell inequality is derived which is maximally violated on the two-qubit state space if measurements describable by positive operator valued measure (POVM) elements are allowed rather than restricting the possible measurements to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Vértesi , E. Bene

Quantum measurements can be incompatible, i.e., they can fail to be jointly measurable. Recently, a weaker notion of joint-measurability, called partial joint-measurability, was proposed by Masini et al. in [Quantum 8, 1574 (2024)]. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Edwin Peter Lobo , Maria Balanzó-Juandó , Stefano Pironio

We present a generalized POVM formalism for the calculation of quantum optics networks of arbitrary complexity and apply it in a detailed analysis of the Franson-Bell experiment. Our analysis suggests that when it comes to observations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-23 George Jaroszkiewicz

We propose quantum devices that can realize probabilistically different projective measurements on a qubit. The desired measurement basis is selected by the quantum state of a program register. First we analyze the phase-covariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaromir Fiurasek , Miloslav Dusek

Complete measurement of a quantum observable (POVM) is a measurement of the maximally refined version of the POVM. Complete measurements give information on multiplicities of measurement outcomes and can be viewed as state preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

The goal of comparison is to reveal the difference of compared objects as fast and reliably as possible. In this paper we formulate and investigate the unambiguous comparison of unknown quantum measurements represented by non-degenerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mario Ziman , Teiko Heinosaari , Michal Sedlak

We consider measurements, described by a positive-operator-valued measure (POVM), whose outcome probabilities determine an arbitrary pure state of a D-dimensional quantum system. We call such a measurement a pure-state informationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven T. Flammia , Andrew Silberfarb , Carlton M. Caves

We overcome one of Bell's objections to `quantum measurement' by generalizing the definition to include systems outside the laboratory. According to this definition a {\sl generalized quantum measurement} takes place when the value of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ting Yu , Ian C. Percival