Quantum state smoothing cannot be assumed classical even when the filtering and retrofiltering are classical

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12970v1
• Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 12:25:41 GMT
• Title: Quantum state smoothing cannot be assumed classical even when the filtering and retrofiltering are classical
• Authors: Kiarn T. Laverick, Prahlad Warszawski, Areeya Chantasri and Howard M. Wiseman
• Abstract summary: State smoothing is a technique to estimate a state at a particular time, conditioned on information obtained both before (past) and after (future) that time. We show that there is an implicit assumption underlying this technique: that if all the information were known to the observer, the true system state would be one of the diagonal basis states.
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• Abstract: State smoothing is a technique to estimate a state at a particular time, conditioned on information obtained both before (past) and after (future) that time. For a classical system, the smoothed state is a normalized product of the $\textit{filtered state}$ (a state conditioned only on the past measurement information and the initial preparation) and the $\textit{retrofiltered effect}$ (depending only on the future measurement information). For the quantum case, whilst there are well-established analogues of the filtered state ($\rho_{\rm F}$) and retrofiltered effect ($\hat E_{\rm R}$), their product does not, in general, provide a valid quantum state for smoothing. However, this procedure does seem to work when $\rho_{\rm F}$ and $\hat E_{\rm R}$ are mutually diagonalizable. This fact has been used to obtain smoothed quantum states -- more pure than the filtered states -- in a number of experiments on continuously monitored quantum systems, in cavity QED and atomic systems. In this paper we show that there is an implicit assumption underlying this technique: that if all the information were known to the observer, the true system state would be one of the diagonal basis states. This assumption does not necessarily hold, as the missing information is quantum information. It could be known to the observer only if it were turned into a classical measurement record, but then its nature depends on the choice of measurement. We show by a simple model that, depending on that measurement choice, the smoothed quantum state can: agree with that from the classical method; disagree with it but still be co-diagonal with it; or not even be co-diagonal with it. That is, just because filtering and retrofiltering appear classical does not mean classical smoothing theory is applicable in quantum experiments.

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