Cloning of a quantum measurement
Abstract
We analyze quantum algorithms for cloning of a quantum measurement. Our aim is to mimic two uses of a device performing an unknown von Neumann measurement with a single use of the device. When the unknown device has to be used before the bipartite state to be measured is available we talk about 1→2 learning of the measurement, otherwise the task is called 1→2 cloning of a measurement. We perform the optimization for both learning and cloning for arbitrary dimension d of the Hilbert space. For 1→2 cloning we also propose a simple quantum network that achieves the optimal fidelity. The optimal fidelity for 1→2 learning just slightly outperforms the estimate and prepare strategy in which one first estimates the unknown measurement and depending on the result suitably prepares the duplicate.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- October 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.042330
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1103.5709
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvA..84d2330B
- Keywords:
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- 03.67.Ac;
- 03.65.Ta;
- Quantum algorithms protocols and simulations;
- Foundations of quantum mechanics;
- measurement theory;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 1 figure