General Theory of Measurement with Two Copies of a Quantum State
Ariel Bendersky, Juan Pablo Paz, Marcelo Terra Cunha · Physical Review Letters · 2009
We analyze the results of the most general measurement on two copies of a quantum state. We show that by using two copies of a quantum state it is possible to achieve an exponential improvement with respect to known methods for quantum state tomography. We demonstrate that mu can label a set of outcomes of a measurement on two copies if and only if there is a family of maps C_{micro} such that the probability Prob(micro) is the fidelity of each map, i.e., Prob(micro) = Tr[rhoC_{micro}(rho)]. Here, the map C_{micro} must be completely positive after being composed with the transposition (these are called completely copositive, or CCP, maps) and must add up to the fully depolarizing map. This implies that a positive operator valued measure on two copies induces a measure on the set of CCP maps (i.e., a CCP map valued measure).