Some Entanglement Survives Most Measurements
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| author | Gonzales, Alvin Dilley, Daniel Byrd, Mark |
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| contents | To prepare quantum states and extract information, it is often assumed that one can perform a perfectly projective measurement. Such measurements can achieve an uncorrelated system and environment state. However, perfectly projective measurements can be difficult or impossible to perform in practice. We investigate the limitations of repeated non-projective measurements in preparing a quantum system. For an $n$-qubit system initially entangled with its environment and subsequently prepared with measurements, using a sequence of weak measurements, we show that some entanglement remains unless one of the measurement operators becomes perfectly projective through an extreme limiting process. Removing initial (unentangled) correlations between a system and its environment and the scenario where measurement outcomes are not tracked are also discussed. We present results for $n$-qubit and $n$-dimensional input states. |
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| spellingShingle | Some Entanglement Survives Most Measurements Gonzales, Alvin Dilley, Daniel Byrd, Mark Quantum Physics To prepare quantum states and extract information, it is often assumed that one can perform a perfectly projective measurement. Such measurements can achieve an uncorrelated system and environment state. However, perfectly projective measurements can be difficult or impossible to perform in practice. We investigate the limitations of repeated non-projective measurements in preparing a quantum system. For an $n$-qubit system initially entangled with its environment and subsequently prepared with measurements, using a sequence of weak measurements, we show that some entanglement remains unless one of the measurement operators becomes perfectly projective through an extreme limiting process. Removing initial (unentangled) correlations between a system and its environment and the scenario where measurement outcomes are not tracked are also discussed. We present results for $n$-qubit and $n$-dimensional input states. |
| title | Some Entanglement Survives Most Measurements |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06880 |