Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Experimental shot-by-shot estimation of quantum measurement accuracy

N. Fajar R. Annafianto, Ivan A. Burenkov, M. V. Jabir, Abdella Battou, Sergey V. Polyakov

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations

Abstract

We show the direct correspondence between Bayesian probabilities obtained by the adaptive quantum measurement and experimentally observed Kholmogorov probabilities. We demonstrate the single-“shot” accuracy estimation for every individual quantum measurement outcome using these Bayesian probabilities.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.ff2i.7

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