Postselection
Template:Short description In probability theory, to postselect is to condition a probability space upon the occurrence of a given event. In symbols, once we postselect for an event , the probability of some other event changes from to the conditional probability .
For a discrete probability space, , and thus we require that be strictly positive in order for the postselection to be well-defined.
See also PostBQP, a complexity class defined with postselection. Using postselection it seems quantum Turing machines are much more powerful: Scott Aaronson proved[1][2] PostBQP is equal to PP.
Some quantum experiments[3] use post-selection after the experiment as a replacement for communication during the experiment, by post-selecting the communicated value into a constant.