Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2011-04-19
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210404 (2011)
Physics
Quantum Physics
(v1) 11 pages, 1 table, 4 figures. (v2) See also the closely related work: arXiv:1104.4695 (v3) method extended to continuous
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.210404
Quantum tomography is the main method used to assess the quality of quantum information processing devices, but its complexity presents a major obstacle for the characterization of even moderately large systems. The number of experimental settings required to extract complete information about a device grows exponentially with its size, and so does the running time for processing the data generated by these experiments. Part of the problem is that tomography generates much more information than is usually sought. Taking a more targeted approach, we develop schemes that enable (i) estimating the fidelity of an experiment to a theoretical ideal description, (ii) learning which description within a reduced subset best matches the experimental data. Both these approaches yield a significant reduction in resources compared to tomography. In particular, we demonstrate that fidelity can be estimated from a number of simple experimental settings that is independent of the system size, removing an important roadblock for the experimental study of larger quantum information processing units.
da Silva Marcus P.
Landon-Cardinal Olivier
Poulin David
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