Preferred Measurements: Optimality and Stability in Quantum Parameter Estimation

Details Preferred Measurements: Optimality and Stability in Quantum Parameter Estimation Preferred Measurements: Optimality and Stability in Quantum Parameter Estimation

2009-09-11

arxiv.org/abs/0909.2070v1

New J. Phys. 12 023010 (10pp) (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 2 figures, in submission. Substantial Extension and replacement of arXiv:0902.3260v1 in response to Referees' remarks

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/12/2/023010

We explore precision in a measurement process incorporating pure probe states, unitary dynamics and complete measurements via a simple formalism. The concept of `information complement' is introduced. It undermines measurement precision and its minimization reveals the system properties at an optimal point. Maximally precise measurements can exhibit independence from the true value of the estimated parameter, but demanding this severely restricts the type of viable probe and dynamics, including the requirement that the Hamiltonian be block-diagonal in a basis of preferred measurements. The curvature of the information complement near a globally optimal point provides a new quantification of measurement stability.

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