When quantum state tomography benefits from willful ignorance
arXiv:2106.11850 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ac0fff
Abstract
We show that quantum state tomography with perfect knowledge of the measurement apparatus proves to be, in some instances, inferior to strategies discarding all information about the measurement at hand, as in the case of data pattern tomography. In those scenarios, the larger uncertainty about the measurement is traded for the smaller uncertainty about the reconstructed signal. This effect is more pronounced for minimal or nearly minimal informationally complete measurement settings, which are of utmost practical importance.
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