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Construction of Positive-Operator Valued Measures via Wavefunctions of Physical Systems

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To facilitate state discrimination, we present a general approach to construct Positive-Operator Valued Measures consisting of infinite elements specified by continuous variables in wavefunctions of arbitrary solvable Hamiltonian.

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This work was supported in part by NSF of China (Grant No. 11171164).

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People’s Republic of China

    Xue-Hong Wang & Jun-Yi Guo

  2. Theoretical Physics Division, Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People’s Republic of China

    Yan Li & Hong-Yi Su

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Wang, XH., Li, Y., Su, HY. et al. Construction of Positive-Operator Valued Measures via Wavefunctions of Physical Systems. Int J Theor Phys 52, 1964–1969 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-012-1371-8

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