Optimal weak value measurements: Pure states

We apply the notion of \emph{optimality} of measurements for state determination(tomography) as originally given by Wootters and Fields to \emph{weak value tomography} of \emph{pure states}. They defined measurements to be optimal if they 'minimised' the effects of statistical errors. For...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2017-02
Main Authors: Dass, N D Hari, R Rajath Krishna, Samantaray, Sai Smruti
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Eigenvectors
Hilbert space
Optimization
Tomography
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Summary:We apply the notion of \emph{optimality} of measurements for state determination(tomography) as originally given by Wootters and Fields to \emph{weak value tomography} of \emph{pure states}. They defined measurements to be optimal if they 'minimised' the effects of statistical errors. For technical reasons they actually maximised the state averaged information, precisely quantified as the negative logarithm of 'error volume'. In this paper we optimise both the state averaged information as well as error volumes. We prove, for Hilbert spaces of arbitrary (finite) dimensionality, that varieties of weak value measurements are optimal when the post-selected bases are \emph{mutually unbiased} with respect to the eigenvectors of the observable being measured. We prove a number of important results about the geometry of state spaces when expressed through the weak values as coordinates. We derive an expression for the Ka\"ehler potential for the N-dimensional case with the help of which we give an exact treatment of the arbitrary-spin case.
ISSN:2331-8422