A new approach to measurement in quantum tomography

TL;DR

This paper introduces a generalized approach to quantum measurement in tomography, treating every complex matrix as measurable, potentially enhancing the accuracy and flexibility of reconstructing quantum states.

Contribution

It proposes a novel method that considers all complex matrices as measurable operators, expanding the framework of stroboscopic quantum tomography.

Findings

Potential improvement in quantum state reconstruction accuracy

Broader class of measurable operators introduced

Enhanced flexibility in quantum measurement models

Abstract

In this article we propose a new approach to quantum measurement in reference to the stroboscopic tomography. Generally, in the stroboscopic approach it is assumed that the information about the quantum system is encoded in the mean values of certain Hermitian operators $Q_1, ..., Q_r$ and each of them can be measured more than once. The main goal of the stroboscopic tomography is to determine when one can reconstruct the initial density matrix $\rho(0)$ on the basis of the measurement results $\langle Q_i \rangle_{t_j}$. In this paper we propose to treat every complex matrix as a measurable operator. This generalized approach to quantum measurement may bring some improvement into the models of stroboscopic tomography.