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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180404 (2004) [4 pages]

How Quantum Correlations Enhance Prediction of Complementary Measurements

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Radim Filip1, Miroslav Gavenda1, Jan Soubusta2,1, Antonín Černoch1, and Miloslav Dušek1
1Department of Optics, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 50, 772 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
2Joint Laboratory of Optics of Palacký University and Institute of Physics of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 17. listopadu 50A, 772 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Received 15 June 2004; published 27 October 2004

If there are correlations between two qubits, then the results of the measurement on one of them can help to predict measurement results on the other one. It is an interesting question as to what can be predicted about the results of two complementary projective measurements on the first qubit. To quantify these predictions the complementary knowledge excesses are used. A nontrivial constraint restricting them is derived. For any mixed state and for arbitrary measurements the knowledge excesses are bounded by a factor depending only on the maximal violation of Bell's inequalities. This result is experimentally verified on two-photon Werner states prepared by means of spontaneous parametric down-conversion.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.180404
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.180404
PACS:
03.65.–w, 03.67.–a