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Volume 104, Number 5, December 2013
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| Article Number | 50008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/104/50008 | |
| Published online | 03 January 2014 | |
Quantum-mechanical retrodiction through an extended mean king problem
1 Center for Quantum Information and Control, MSC07–4220, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA
2 Department of Physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology - Haifa 32000, Israel
Received: 14 October 2013
Accepted: 5 December 2013
The mean king problem is a conditional retrodiction problem. In this problem Alice prepares a two prime-dimensional particles state and avails one of the particles to the king who measures its state in one of mutually unbiased bases of his choice. The king tells Alice his choice of basis after she completes a control measurement on his particle. Conditioned on this knowledge, she now infers the state observed by the king by utilizing the outcome of her control measurement. In the extended mean king problem, studied in this paper, the king does not tell Alice his measurement basis, but instead both the king and Alice repeat their measurements. Proper ordering of these allows Alice to deduce both the basis used by the king and the outcome of his first measurement, with the king reticent throughout, i.e., this protocol effects a (almost) complete retrodiction of the king's first measurement.
PACS: 03.65.Ta – Foundations of quantum mechanics; measurement theory / 03.67.Hk – Quantum communication
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