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Experimental Demonstration of Self-Guided Quantum Tomography

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Chapman, Robert J., Ferrie, Christopher, Peruzzo, Alberto·2016·Physical Review Letters

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Traditional methods of quantum state characterization are impractical for systems of more than a few qubits due to exponentially expensive postprocessing and data storage and lack robustness against errors and noise. Here, we experimentally demonstrate self-guided quantum tomography performed on polarization photonic qubits. The quantum state is iteratively learned by optimizing a projection measurement without any data storage or postprocessing. We experimentally demonstrate robustness against statistical noise and measurement errors on single-qubit and entangled two-qubit states.

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  • The method offers the same computational advantage as self-guided tomography, but without the need for complex reconfigurable measurements that previously restricted this approach to only pure states.

    “Importantly, our method offers the same computational advantage as self-guided tomography, but without a need for complex reconfigurable measurements which so far restricted this approach to only pure states.18”

    From Scalable on-chip quantum state tomography (2018) · cites this paper as [18]

    The paper says SGQT avoids computationally expensive postprocessing and optimizes projection measurements, including entangling measurements for the original algorithm. It also says its implementation estimates the pure state with greatest overlap and leaves demonstration on arbitrary mixed states to future work. It does not say that the need for complex reconfigurable measurements is what restricted SGQT to pure states. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  1. G. G. Stokes, Trans. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 9, 399 (1851).
  2. B. Qi, Z. Hou, Y. Wang, D. Dong, H.-S. Zhong, L. Li, G.-Y. Xiang, H. M. Wiseman, C.-F. Li, and G.-C. Guo, arXiv:1512.01634. · arXiv
  3. See Supplemental Material at http://link.aps.org/ supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.040402 for full de- tails of the polarization photonic experiment.

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Authors
Chapman, R. J., Ferrie, C., & Peruzzo, A.
Affiliations
The University of Sydney (AU)
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Published
2016-07-21
Volume
117
Issue
4
Pages
040402-040402
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
OpenAlex
W2268084203
Cited by
69
References
30
Citations by year
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FWCI
5.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
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  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Funders
  • Army Research Office (W911NF-14-1-0098, W911NF-14-1-0103)
  • Australian Research Council (CE11001013, DE140101700)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Keywords
quantum state characterization, single-qubit states, measurement error, statistical noise

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