Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2005-03-31
J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 7 (2005) S347-S352
Physics
Quantum Physics
8 pages; v2: published version (typos corrected; reference added)
Scientific paper
10.1088/1464-4266/7/10/021
We describe a scalable stochastic method for the experimental measurement of generalized fidelities characterizing the accuracy of the implementation of a coherent quantum transformation. The method is based on the motion reversal of random unitary operators. In the simplest case our method enables direct estimation of the average gate fidelity. The more general fidelities are characterized by a universal exponential rate of fidelity loss. In all cases the measurable fidelity decrease is directly related to the strength of the noise affecting the implementation -- quantified by the trace of the superoperator describing the non--unitary dynamics. While the scalability of our stochastic protocol makes it most relevant in large Hilbert spaces (when quantum process tomography is infeasible), our method should be immediately useful for evaluating the degree of control that is achievable in any prototype quantum processing device. By varying over different experimental arrangements and error-correction strategies additional information about the noise can be determined.
Alicki Robert
Emerson Joseph
Zyczkowski Karol
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