Pure-state informationally complete and “really” complete measurements
- 12 November 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 70 (5) , 052107
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.70.052107
Abstract
I construct a positive-operator-valued measure (POVM) which has rank-1 elements and which is informationally complete for generic pure states in dimensions, thus confirming a conjecture made by Flammia, Silberfarb, and Caves (e-print quant-ph∕0404137). I show that if a rank-1 POVM is required to be informationally complete for all pure states in dimensions, it must have at least elements. I also show that, in a POVM which is informationally complete for all pure states in dimensions, for any vector there must be at least POVM elements which do not annihilate that vector.
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