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Phys. Rev. A 78, 012315 (2008) [9 pages]

Coexistence of qubit effects

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Peter Stano1,*, Daniel Reitzner1, and Teiko Heinosaari1,2
1Research Center for Quantum Information, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 11 Bratislava, Slovakia
2Department of Physics, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland

Received 23 April 2008; published 10 July 2008

We characterize all coexistent pairs of qubit effects. This gives an exhaustive description of all pairs of events allowed, in principle, to occur in a single qubit measurement. The characterization consists of three disjoint conditions, which are easy to check for a given pair of effects. Known special cases are shown to follow from our general characterization theorem.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012315
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012315
PACS:
03.67.−a, 03.65.Ta

*peter.stano@savba.sk