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arxiv: 1603.04271 · v2 · pith:LBZ564EAnew · submitted 2016-03-14 · 🪐 quant-ph · math-ph· math.MP

Saturation of repeated quantum measurements

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keywords measurementobservablerepeatedmeasurementsrepetitionssystemunsharpcharacterize
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We study sequential measurement scenarios where the system is repeatedly subjected to the same measurement process. We first provide examples of such repeated measurements where further repetitions of the measurement do not increase our knowledge on the system after some finite number of measurement steps. We also prove, however, that repeating the L\"uders measurement of an unsharp two-outcome observable never saturates in this sense, and we characterize the observable measured in the limit of infinitely many repetitions. Our result implies that a repeated measurement can be used to correct the inherent noise of an unsharp observable.

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