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A Class of Distance-Based Incompatibility Measures for Quantum Measurements


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1 Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India
2 Centre for Policy Studies, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004, India
 

We discuss a recently proposed class of incompatibility measures for quantum measurements, which is based on quantifying the effect of measurements of one observable on the statistics of the outcome of another. We summarize the properties of this class of measures, and present a tight upper bound for the incompatibility of any set of projective measurements in finite dimensions. We also discuss non-projective measurements, and give a non-trivial upper bound on the mutual incompatibility of a pair of Luders instruments. Using the example of incompatible observables that commute on a subspace, we elucidate how this class of measures goes beyond uncertainty relations in quantifying the mutual incompatibility of quantum measurements.

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Entropic Uncertainty Relation, Fidelity, Incompatibility, Maximal Disturbance.
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Authors

Prabha Mandayam
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India
M. D. Srinivas
Centre for Policy Studies, Mylapore, Chennai 600 004, India

Abstract


We discuss a recently proposed class of incompatibility measures for quantum measurements, which is based on quantifying the effect of measurements of one observable on the statistics of the outcome of another. We summarize the properties of this class of measures, and present a tight upper bound for the incompatibility of any set of projective measurements in finite dimensions. We also discuss non-projective measurements, and give a non-trivial upper bound on the mutual incompatibility of a pair of Luders instruments. Using the example of incompatible observables that commute on a subspace, we elucidate how this class of measures goes beyond uncertainty relations in quantifying the mutual incompatibility of quantum measurements.

Keywords


Entropic Uncertainty Relation, Fidelity, Incompatibility, Maximal Disturbance.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv109%2Fi11%2F1997-2001