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arxiv: 0909.4166 · v1 · submitted 2009-09-23 · 🪐 quant-ph

The canonical phase measurement is pure

classification 🪐 quant-ph
keywords measurementcanonicalphasemeasurepurevaluedcannotconvex
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We show that the canonical phase measurement is pure in the sense that the corresponding positive operator valued measure (POVM) is extremal in the convex set of all POVMs. This means that the canonical phase measurement cannot be interpreted as a noisy measurement, even if it is not a projection valued measure.

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