This data relates to the paper:

"Optimal simultaneous measurements of incompatible observables of a single photon"
by 
Adetunmise Dada, Will McCutcheon, Erika Andersson, Jonathan Crickmore, Ittoop Puthoor, Brian Gerardot
Alex McMillan, John Rarity, and Ruth Oulton 



Organisation and description of column labels in data file:


theta	:	angle between the equivalent polarization- or qubit-state vectors a and b	Fig. 1
			
<A> theor.	:	"expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of A (theory)"	Fig. 6
			
<A>	:	"expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of A (experiment)"	Fig. 6
			
<A>err	:	"experimental error on the expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of A"	Fig. 6
			
<B> theor.	:	"expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of B (theory)"	Fig. 6
			
<B>	:	"expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of B (experiment)"	Fig. 6
			
<B>err	:	"experimental error on the expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of B"	Fig. 6
			
<C> theor.	:	"expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of C (theory)"	
			
<C>	:	"expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of C (experiment)"	"Eq. 11, Fig. 6"
			
<C>err	:	"experimental error on the expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of C"	Fig. 6
			
<D> theor.	:	"expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of D(theory)"	Fig. 6
			
<D>	:	"expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of D (experiment)"	"Eq. 11, Fig. 6"
			
<D>err	:	"experimental error on the expectation value for individual ""sharp"" measurement of D"	Fig. 6
			
<AJ> theor.	:	expectation value for joint measurement observable A_j (theory)	Fig. 6
			
<AJ>	:	expectation value for joint measurement observable A_j (experiment)	Fig. 6
			
<AJ>err	:	experimental error on joint measurement observable A_j 	Fig. 6
			
<BJ> theor.	:	expectation value for joint measurement observable B_j (theory)	Fig. 6
			
<BJ>	:	expectation value for joint measurement observable B_j (experiment)	Fig. 6
			
<BJ>err	:	experimental error on joint measurement observable B_j 	Fig. 6
			
alpha theor.	:	alpha (theory)	"Eqs. 2, 10, 13, Fig. 4"
			
alpha	:	alpha (experiment)	"Eqs. 2, 10, 13,Fig. 4"
			
alpha err	:	experimental error on alpha 	
			
beta theor.	:	beta (theory)	"Eqs. 2, 10, 13"
			
beta	:	beta (experiment)	"Eqs. 2, 10, 13"
			
beta err	:	experimental error on beta 	
			
contr.var.prod.eq28	:	joint measurement sharpness (experiment)	"Eq. 11,  Fig. 3"
			
contr.var.prod.eq28 err	:	experimental error on joint measurement sharpness	Fig. 4
			
varA*varB	:	product of variance on A with variance on B	Fig. 4
			
varA*varB err	:	experimental error in the estimation of the product of variance on A with variance on B	Fig. 4
			
varAJ*varBJ theor.	:	product of variance on A_j with variance on B_j (theory)	Fig. 4
			
varAJ*varBJ	:	product of variance on A_j with variance on B_j (experiment)	Fig. 4
			
varAJ*varBJ err	:	experimental error in the estimation of the product of variance on A_j with variance on B_j	Fig. 4
			
varAJ	:	variance of A_j (experiment)	
			
varAJerr	:	experimental error in the estimation of the variance of A_j	
			
varBJ	:	variance of B_j (experiment)	
			
varBJerr	:	experimental error in the estimation of the variance of B_j	
			
varA	:	variance of A (experiment)	
			
varAerr	:	experimental error in the estimation of the variance of A	
			
varB	:	variance of B (experiment)	
			
varBerr	:	experimental error in the estimation of the variance of B	
			
varC	:	variance of C (experiment)	
			
varCerr	:	experimental error in the estimation of the variance of C	
			
varD	:	variance of D (experiment)	
			
varDerr	:	experimental error in the estimation of the variance of D	
			
varAj theor.	:	variance of A (experiment)	
			
varBj theor.	:	variance of B (experiment)	
			
varA theor.	:	variance of A (experiment)	
			
varB theor.	:	variance of B (experiment)	
			
			








Adetunmise Dada