POVM does not determine the post-measurement state

ID: povm-does-not-determine-the-post-measurement-state

A POVM fixes outcome probabilities, but a quantum instrument additionally fixes the conditional output state. For computational-basis effects , the operators leave the measured eigenstate as output, whereas reset every outcome to . Both have . Thus a specification of effects alone cannot select a unique joint state that retains the measured quantum system.

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