Many-body entropies and entanglement from polynomially-many local measurements

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Main Authors: Vermersch, Benoît, Ljubotina, Marko, Cirac, J. Ignacio, Zoller, Peter, Serbyn, Maksym, Piroli, Lorenzo
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author Vermersch, Benoît
Ljubotina, Marko
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Zoller, Peter
Serbyn, Maksym
Piroli, Lorenzo
author_facet Vermersch, Benoît
Ljubotina, Marko
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Zoller, Peter
Serbyn, Maksym
Piroli, Lorenzo
contents Estimating global properties of many-body quantum systems such as entropy or bipartite entanglement is a notoriously difficult task, typically requiring a number of measurements or classical post-processing resources growing exponentially in the system size. In this work, we address the problem of estimating global entropies and mixed-state entanglement via partial-transposed (PT) moments, and show that efficient estimation strategies exist under the assumption that all the spatial correlation lengths are finite. Focusing on one-dimensional systems, we identify a set of approximate factorization conditions (AFCs) on the system density matrix which allow us to reconstruct entropies and PT moments from information on local subsystems. This yields a simple and efficient strategy for entropy and entanglement estimation. Our method could be implemented in different ways, depending on how information on local subsystems is extracted. Focusing on randomized measurements (RMs), providing a practical and common measurement scheme, we prove that our protocol only requires polynomially-many measurements and post-processing operations, assuming that the state to be measured satisfies the AFCs. We prove that the AFCs hold for finite-depth quantum-circuit states and translation-invariant matrix-product density operators, and provide numerical evidence that they are satisfied in more general, physically-interesting cases, including thermal states of local Hamiltonians. We argue that our method could be practically useful to detect bipartite mixed-state entanglement for large numbers of qubits available in today's quantum platforms.
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spellingShingle Many-body entropies and entanglement from polynomially-many local measurements
Vermersch, Benoît
Ljubotina, Marko
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Zoller, Peter
Serbyn, Maksym
Piroli, Lorenzo
Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Estimating global properties of many-body quantum systems such as entropy or bipartite entanglement is a notoriously difficult task, typically requiring a number of measurements or classical post-processing resources growing exponentially in the system size. In this work, we address the problem of estimating global entropies and mixed-state entanglement via partial-transposed (PT) moments, and show that efficient estimation strategies exist under the assumption that all the spatial correlation lengths are finite. Focusing on one-dimensional systems, we identify a set of approximate factorization conditions (AFCs) on the system density matrix which allow us to reconstruct entropies and PT moments from information on local subsystems. This yields a simple and efficient strategy for entropy and entanglement estimation. Our method could be implemented in different ways, depending on how information on local subsystems is extracted. Focusing on randomized measurements (RMs), providing a practical and common measurement scheme, we prove that our protocol only requires polynomially-many measurements and post-processing operations, assuming that the state to be measured satisfies the AFCs. We prove that the AFCs hold for finite-depth quantum-circuit states and translation-invariant matrix-product density operators, and provide numerical evidence that they are satisfied in more general, physically-interesting cases, including thermal states of local Hamiltonians. We argue that our method could be practically useful to detect bipartite mixed-state entanglement for large numbers of qubits available in today's quantum platforms.
title Many-body entropies and entanglement from polynomially-many local measurements
topic Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08108