Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2007-07-26
Phys. Rev. A 77, 012313 (2008)
Physics
Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.012313
We formulate the accuracy of quantum measurement for a qubit system in terms of a 3 by 3 matrix. This matrix, which we refer to as the accuracy matrix, can be calculated from a positive operator-valued measure (POVM) corresponding to the quantum measurement. Based on the accuracy matrix, we derive new trade-off relations between the measurement accuracy of two or three noncommuting observables of a qubit system. These trade-off relations offer a quantitative information-theoretic representation of Bohr's principle of complementarity. They can be interpreted as the uncertainty relations between measurement errors in simultaneous measurements, and also as the trade-off relations between the measurement error and back-action of measurement. A no-cloning inequality is derived from the trade-off relations. Furthermore, our formulation and the obtained results can be applied to analyze quantum state tomography. We also show that the accuracy matrix is closely related to the maximum-likelihood estimation and the Fisher information matrix for a finite number of samples; the accuracy matrix tells us how accurately we can estimate the probability distributions of observables of an unknown state by quantum measurement.
Sagawa Takahiro
Ueda Masahito
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