Geometrical description of quantal state determination
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 14 (12) , 3241-3245
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/14/12/019
Abstract
Under the assumption that every quantal measurement may give data about the post-measurement state of the inspected ensemble, the problem of the state determination is reconsidered. It is shown that orthogonal decomposition of the set of complex, n*n, Hermitian matrices into the commutative subsets allows operators to be found such that post-measurement information on these observables allows a partial (in some cases total) determination of the pre-measurement state to be effected.Keywords
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