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Quantum Incompatibility in Collective Measurements
Authors: Claudio Carmeli, Teiko Heinosaari, Daniel Reitzner, Jussi Schultz, Alessandro Toigo
Publisher: MDPI AG
Publication year: 2016
Journal: Mathematics
Article number: 54
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Number of pages: 18
ISSN: 2227-7390
eISSN: 2227-7390
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/math4030054
We study the compatibility (or joint measurability) of quantum observables in a setting where the experimenter has access to multiple copies of a given quantum system, rather than performing the experiments on each individual copy separately. We introduce the index of incompatibility as a quantifier of incompatibility in this multi-copy setting, as well as the notion of the compatibility stack representing various compatibility relations present in a given set of observables. We then prove a general structure theorem for multi-copy joint observables and use it to prove that all abstract compatibility stacks with three vertices have realizations in terms of quantum observables.
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