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Approximately Clean Quantum Probability Measures

Quantum Physics 2018-11-30 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

A quantum probability measure--or quantum measurement--is said to be clean if it cannot be irreversibly connected to any other quantum probability measure via a quantum channel. The notion of a clean quantum measure was introduced by Buscemi et al (2005) for finite-dimensional Hilbert space, and was studied subsequently by Kahn (2007) and Pellonp\"a\"a (2011). The present paper provides new descriptions of clean quantum probability measures in the case of finite-dimensional Hilbert space. For Hilbert spaces of infinite dimension, we introduce the notion of `approximately clean quantum probability measures' and characterise this property for measures whose range determines a finite-dimensional operator system.

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@article{arxiv.1811.11857,
  title  = {Approximately Clean Quantum Probability Measures},
  author = {Douglas Farenick and Remus Floricel and Sarah Plosker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.11857},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

14 pages; fixed/added some details not found in published version

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