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How Continuous Quantum Measurements in Finite Dimensions Are Actually Discrete

Giulio Chiribella, Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, Dirk Schlingemann

Physical Review Letters · 2007 · 52 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

We show that in finite dimensions a quantum measurement with a continuous set of outcomes can be always realized as a continuous random choice of measurements with a finite number of outcomes.

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