Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2001-06-13
IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 48, pp. 599-610, Mar. 2002
Physics
Quantum Physics
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. LaTex, 50 pages
Scientific paper
Tight frames and rank-one quantum measurements are shown to be intimately related. In fact, the family of normalized tight frames for the space in which a quantum mechanical system lies is precisely the family of rank-one generalized quantum measurements (POVMs) on that space. Using this relationship, frame-theoretical analogues of various quantum-mechanical concepts and results are developed. The analogue of a least-squares quantum measurement is a tight frame that is closest in a least-squares sense to a given set of vectors. The least-squares tight frame is found for both the case in which the scaling of the frame is specified (constrained least-squares frame (CLSF)) and the case in which the scaling is free (unconstrained least-squares frame (ULSF)). The well-known canonical frame is shown to be proportional to the ULSF and to coincide with the CLSF with a certain scaling. Finally, the canonical frame vectors corresponding to a geometrically uniform vector set are shown to be geometrically uniform and to have the same symmetries as the original vector set.
Eldar Yonina C.
Forney David G. Jr.
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