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Quantum measurement is one of the most fascinating and discussed phenomena in quantum physics, due to the impact on the system of the measurement action and the resulting interpretation issues. Scholars proposed weak measurements to amplify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Lorena Ballesteros Ferraz , Riccardo Muolo , Yves Caudano , Timoteo Carletti

Informationally complete measurements on a quantum system allow to estimate the expectation value of any arbitrary operator by just averaging functions of the experimental outcomes. We show that such kind of measurements can be achieved…

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

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

The paper reviews and discusses four ideas scattered in previous papers of the author. First, objective properties of quantum systems are not associated with observables but are defined by preparations. Second, measurable results of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Petr Hajicek

The usual concepts of topological physics, such as the Berry curvature, cannot be applied directly to non-Hermitian systems. We show that another object, the quantum metric, which often plays a secondary role in Hermitian systems, becomes a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 D. D. Solnyshkov , C. Leblanc , L. Bessonart , A. Nalitov , J. Ren , Q. Liao , F. Li , G. Malpuech

The rapid advancements in quantum computing (QC) and machine learning (ML) have sparked significant interest, driving extensive exploration of quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms to address a wide range of complex challenges. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Yi Lin , Shinjae Yoo

Among certification techniques, those based on the violation of Bell inequalities are appealing because they do not require assumptions on the underlying Hilbert space dimension and on the accuracy of calibration methods. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-20 Sebastian Wagner , Jean-Daniel Bancal , Nicolas Sangouard , Pavel Sekatski

This paper presents a new `partitional' approach to understanding or interpreting standard quantum mechanics (QM). The thesis is that the mathematics (not the physics) of QM is the Hilbert space version of the math of partitions on a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 David Ellerman

The existence of incompatibility is one of the most fundamental features of quantum theory, and can be found at the core of many of the theory's distinguishing features, such as Bell inequality violations and the no-broadcasting theorem. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Sergey N. Filippov , Teiko Heinosaari , Leevi Leppäjärvi

We discuss the distinction between the notion of partial observable and the notion of complete observable. Mixing up the two is frequently a source of confusion. The distinction bears on several issues related to observability, such as (i)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo Rovelli

To measure an observable of a quantum mechanical system leaves it in one of its eigenstates and the result of the measurement is one of its eigenvalues. This process is shown to be a computational resource. It allows one, in principle, to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Stefan Weigert

Until recently, a quantum instrument was defined to be a completely positive operation-valued measure from the set of states on a Hilbert space to itself. In the last few years, this definition has been generalized to such measures between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Stanley Gudder

Let $V=\mathbb{C}^N$, and $H$ (an observable) a Hermitian linear operator on $V$. Let $v_1,..., v_n$ be an orthonormal basis for $V$. Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a measurement apparatus prepared to measure a state of an observed system and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Tuyen Trung Truong

We generalize Lyapunov's convexity theorem for classical (scalar-valued) measures to quantum (operator-valued) measures. In particular, we show that the range of a nonatomic quantum probability measure is a weak*-closed convex set of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Sarah Plosker , Christopher Ramsey

We study the problem of separating the data produced by a given quantum measurement (on states from a memoryless source which is unknown except for its average state), described by a positive operator valued measure (POVM), into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas Winter

Measurement is an important scientific activity. In most of science, including classical physics, is may be understood as a way of finding out about the physical world and representing the results numerically. No-go theorems show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Richard Healey

The quantum theory of measurement has been a matter of debate for over eighty years. Most of the discussion has focused on theoretical issues with the consequence that operational prescriptions, which are integral to experimental physics,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-09-04 Stephen Boughn , Marcel Reginatto

In this work we investigate how to quantify the coherence of quantum measurements. First, we establish a resource theoretical framework to address the coherence of measurement and show that any statistical distance can be adopted to define…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Kyunghyun Baek , Adel Sohbi , Jaehak Lee , Jaewan Kim , Hyunchul Nha

We introduce a concept of a minimal sufficient positive-operator valued measure (POVM), which is the least redundant POVM among the POVMs that have the equivalent information about the measured quantum system. Assuming the system Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 Yui Kuramochi

Loss induced generalized measurements have been introduced years ago as a mean to implement generalized quantum measurements (POVM). Here the original idea is extended to a complete equivalence of lossy evolution and a certain widely used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Raam Uzdin