A Note on the Hierarchy of Quantum Measurement Incompatibilities

Entropy (Basel). 2020 Jan 30;22(2):161. doi: 10.3390/e22020161.

Abstract

The quantum measurement incompatibility is a distinctive feature of quantum mechanics. We investigate the incompatibility of a set of general measurements and classify the incompatibility by the hierarchy of compatibilities of its subsets. By using the approach of adding noises to measurement operators, we present a complete classification of the incompatibility of a given measurement assemblage with n members. Detailed examples are given for the incompatibility of unbiased qubit measurements based on a semidefinite program.

Keywords: hierarchy of incompatibilities; quntum measurements; semidefinite program.