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Neutron optical test of completeness of quantum root-mean-square errors

Quantum Physics 2021-07-07 v2

Abstract

One of the major problems in quantum physics has been to generalize the classical root-mean-square error to quantum measurements to obtain an error measure satisfying both soundness (to vanish for any accurate measurements) and completeness (to vanish only for accurate measurements). A noise-operator based error measure has been commonly used for this purpose, but it has turned out incomplete. Recently, Ozawa proposed a new definition for a noise-operator based error measure to be both sound and complete. Here, we present a neutron optical demonstration for the completeness of the new error measure for both projective (or sharp) as well as generalized (or unsharp) measurements.

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@article{arxiv.2009.06418,
  title  = {Neutron optical test of completeness of quantum root-mean-square errors},
  author = {Stephan Sponar and Armin Danner and Masanao Ozawa and Yuji Hasegawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.06418},
  year   = {2021}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures and Supplementary Information

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