When quantum state tomography benefits from willful ignorance

We show that quantum state tomography with perfect knowledge of the measurement apparatus proves to be, in some instances, inferior to strategies discarding all information about the measurement at hand, as in the case of data pattern tomography. In those scenarios, the larger uncertainty about the...

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Autores: Motka, Libor, Paúr, Martin, Řeháček, Jaroslav, Hradil, Zdeněk, Sánchez Soto, Luis Lorenzo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/4409
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/4409
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:535
Detector tomography
Óptica (Física)
2209.19 Óptica Física
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Sumario:We show that quantum state tomography with perfect knowledge of the measurement apparatus proves to be, in some instances, inferior to strategies discarding all information about the measurement at hand, as in the case of data pattern tomography. In those scenarios, the larger uncertainty about the measurement is traded for the smaller uncertainty about the reconstructed signal. This effect is more pronounced for minimal or nearly minimal informationally complete measurement settings, which are of utmost practical importance.