Equation of Motion for Estimation Fidelity of Monitored Oscillating Qubits

Abstract

We study the convergence properties of state estimates of an oscillating qubit being monitored by a sequence of \textit{discrete}, unsharp measurements. Our method derives a differential equation determining the evolution of the estimation fidelity from a single incremental step. When the oscillation frequency $\Omega$ is precisely known, the estimation fidelity converges exponentially fast to unity. For imprecise knowledge of $\Omega$ we derive the asypmtotic estimation fidelity.

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