Optimal estimation of qubit states with continuous time measurements

Details Optimal estimation of qubit states with continuous time measurements Optimal estimation of qubit states with continuous time measurements

2006-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0608074v3

Commun. Math. Phys. 277, 127-160 (2008)

Physics

Quantum Physics

32 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Commun. Math. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00220-007-0357-5

We propose an adaptive, two steps strategy, for the estimation of mixed qubit states. We show that the strategy is optimal in a local minimax sense for the trace norm distance as well as other locally quadratic figures of merit. Local minimax optimality means that given $n$ identical qubits, there exists no estimator which can perform better than the proposed estimator on a neighborhood of size $n^{-1/2}$ of an arbitrary state. In particular, it is asymptotically Bayesian optimal for a large class of prior distributions. We present a physical implementation of the optimal estimation strategy based on continuous time measurements in a field that couples with the qubits. The crucial ingredient of the result is the concept of local asymptotic normality (or LAN) for qubits. This means that, for large $n$, the statistical model described by $n$ identically prepared qubits is locally equivalent to a model with only a classical Gaussian distribution and a Gaussian state of a quantum harmonic oscillator. The term `local' refers to a shrinking neighborhood around a fixed state $\rho_{0}$. An essential result is that the neighborhood radius can be chosen arbitrarily close to $n^{-1/4}$. This allows us to use a two steps procedure by which we first localize the state within a smaller neighborhood of radius $n^{-1/2+\epsilon}$, and then use LAN to perform optimal estimation.

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