Statistically efficient tomography of low rank states with incomplete measurements

Acharya, Anirudh, Kypraios, Theodore and Guţă, Mădălin (2016) Statistically efficient tomography of low rank states with incomplete measurements. New Journal of Physics, 18 (4). 043018. ISSN 1367-2630

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Abstract

The construction of physically relevant low dimensional state models, and the design of appropriate measurements are key issues in tackling quantum state tomography for large dimensional systems. We consider the statistical problem of estimating low rank states in the set-up of multiple ions tomography, and investigate how the estimation error behaves with a reduction in the number of measurement settings, compared with the standard ion tomography setup. We present extensive simulation results showing that the error is robust with respect to the choice of states of a given rank, the random selection of settings, and that the number of settings can be significantly reduced with only a negligible increase in error. We present an argument to explain these findings based on a concentration inequality for the Fisher information matrix. In the more general setup of random basis measurements we use this argument to show that for certain rank r states it suffices to measure in $O(r\mathrm{log}d)$ bases to achieve the average Fisher information over all bases. We present numerical evidence for random states of up to eight atoms, which suggests that a similar behaviour holds in the case of Pauli bases measurements, for randomly chosen states. The relation to similar problems in compressed sensing is also discussed.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/785323
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Mathematical Sciences
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043018
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 02 Oct 2017 11:18
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 17:46
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/46912

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