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How well can a quantum measurement pin down an unknown state?

Jatin Ghai, Arindam Mitra

June 2, 2026

Some quantum measurements are powerful enough to fully identify an unknown quantum state from their statistics alone — but not all IC measurements are equally good at this. This work introduces a rigorous way to score that power for qubit measurements, shows that the symmetric SIC measurement is the best among minimal options, and proves that a channel's ability to preserve this power is directly tied to how much coherence it always outputs — connecting two seemingly separate quantum resources.
Published as Informational completeness of qubit measurements and IC preservability of qubit channels: Characterization and Quantification arXiv:2606.03964
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