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Clean positive operator valued measures for qubits and similar cases

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v2

Abstract

In a recent paper, Buscemi and al. defined a notion of clean positive operator valued measures (POVMs). We here characterize which POVMs are clean in some class that we call quasi-qubit POVMs, namely POVMs whose elements are all rank-one or full-rank. We give an algorithm to check whether a given quasi-qubit POVM satisfies to this condition. We describe explicitely all the POVMs that are clean for the qubit. On the way we give a sufficient condition for a general POVM to be clean.

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0603117,
  title  = {Clean positive operator valued measures for qubits and similar cases},
  author = {Jonas Kahn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0603117},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, Much of a sequel to quant-ph/0505095 Rewriting of the article deeply improving (I hope) the presentation. Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics A

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