Information gain versus coupling strength in quantum measurements

Xuanmin Zhu, Yuxiang Zhang, Quanhui Liu, Shengjun Wu

Published 2012-03-10, updated 2012-05-05Version 2

We investigate the relationship between the information gain and the interaction strength between the quantum system and the measuring device. A strategy is proposed to calculate the information gain of the measuring device as the coupling strength is a variable. For qubit systems, we prove that the information gain increases monotonically with the coupling strength. It is obtained that the information gain of the projective measurement along the x-direction reduces with the increasing of the measurement strength along the z-direction, and a complementarity of information gain in the measurements along those two directions is presented.