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View SchemaThere exist non orthogonal quantum measurements that are perfectly repeatable
| Authors | F. Buscemi, G. M. D'Ariano, P. Perinotti |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0310041 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310041 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.070403 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett 92, 070403 (2004) |
Abstract
We show that, contrarily to the widespread belief, in quantum mechanics repeatable measurements are not necessarily described by orthogonal projectors--the customary paradigm of "observable". Nonorthogonal repeatability, however, occurs only for infinite dimensions. We also show that when a non orthogonal repeatable measurement is performed, the measured system retains some "memory" of the number of times that the measurement has been performed.
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