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Measurement incompatibility cannot be stochastically distilled

Quantum Physics 2024-11-27 v2

Abstract

We show that the incompatibility of a set of measurements cannot be increased by subjecting them to a filter, namely, by combining them with a device that post-selects the incoming states on a fixed outcome of a stochastic transformation. This result holds for several measures of incompatibility, such as those based on robustness and convex weight. Expanding these ideas to Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering experiments, we are able to solve the problem of the maximum steerability obtained with respect to the most general local filters in a way that allows for an explicit calculation of the filter operation. Moreover, our results generalize to nonphysical maps, i.e., positive but not completely positive linear maps.

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@article{arxiv.2308.02252,
  title  = {Measurement incompatibility cannot be stochastically distilled},
  author = {Huan-Yu Ku and Chung-Yun Hsieh and Costantino Budroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02252},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages, 1 figure, comments welcome

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