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arXiv:1512.03652 · Physical Review A

Direct state reconstruction with coupling-deformed pointer observables

Xuanmin Zhu, Yu-Xiang Zhang, Shengjun Wu

Published Jun 2, 2016• 17 citations
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Abstract

Direct state tomography (DST) using weak measurements has received wide attention. Based on the concept of coupling-deformed pointer observables presented by Zhang et al. [Y.-X. Zhang, S. Wu, and Z.-B. Chen, Phys. Rev. A 93, 032128 (2016)], a modified direct state tomography (MDST) is proposed, examined, and compared with other typical state tomography schemes. MDST has exact validity for measurements of any strength. We identify the strength needed to attain the highest efficiency level of MDST by using statistical theory. MDST is much more efficient than DST in the sense that far fewer samples are needed to reach DST's level of reconstruction accuracy. Moreover, MDST has no inherent bias when compared to DST.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.93.062304

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Compared with the conventional quantum state tomography (QST), the direct state tomography (DST) using weak value is easily manipulated in experiments. However, the efficiency of the DST is lower than that of the conventional QST, especially for high-dimensional systems. For a pure state, the DST is revised to improve the efficiency. In the revised DST, the real or imaginary parts of the weak values can be obtained by measuring only one system observable. We constructed a hybrid DST by combining the original DST and the revised DST. By using the appropriate measurement strength, the efficiency of the hybrid DST is significantly larger than that of the conventional QST, especially for high-dimensional systems. The state reconstruction strategy investigated in this paper may be useful in actual experiments.
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While the novel applications of weak values have recently attracted wide attention, weak measurement, the usual way to extract weak values, suffers from risky approximations and severe quantum noises. In this paper, we show that the weak-value information can be obtained exactly in strong measurement with postselections, via measuring the coupling-deformed pointer observables, i.e., the observables selected according to the coupling strength. With this approach, we keep all the advantages claimed by weak-measurement schemes and at the same time solve some widely criticized problems thereof, such as the questionable universality, systematical bias, and drastic inefficiency.
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