Realization of a minimal disturbance quantum measurement.
We report the first experimental realization of an "optimal" quantum device able to perform a minimal disturbance measurement on polarization encoded qubits saturating the theoretical boundary established between the classical knowledge acquired of any input state, i.e., a "classical guess," and the fidelity of the same state after disturbance due to measurement. The device has been physically realized by means of a linear optical qubit manipulation, postselection measurement, and a classical feed-forward process.
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Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Via Panisperna 89/A, Compendio del Viminale, Roma 00184, Italy.
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De Martini
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