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Main Authors: Veltheim, Otto, Keski-Vakkuri, Esko
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07068
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author Veltheim, Otto
Keski-Vakkuri, Esko
author_facet Veltheim, Otto
Keski-Vakkuri, Esko
contents Quantum tomography approaches typically consider a set of observables which we wish to measure, design a measurement scheme which measures each of the observables and then repeats the measurements as many times as necessary. We show that instead of considering only the simple set of observables, one should consider a multiset of the observables taking into account the required repetitions, to minimize the number of measurements. This leads to a graph theoretic multicolouring problem. We show that multiset tomography offers at most quadratic improvement but it is achievable. Furthermore, despite the NP-hard optimal colouring problem, the multiset approach with greedy colouring algorithms already offers asymptotically quadratic improvement in test cases.
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spellingShingle Optimizing quantum measurements by partitioning multisets of observables
Veltheim, Otto
Keski-Vakkuri, Esko
Quantum Physics
Quantum tomography approaches typically consider a set of observables which we wish to measure, design a measurement scheme which measures each of the observables and then repeats the measurements as many times as necessary. We show that instead of considering only the simple set of observables, one should consider a multiset of the observables taking into account the required repetitions, to minimize the number of measurements. This leads to a graph theoretic multicolouring problem. We show that multiset tomography offers at most quadratic improvement but it is achievable. Furthermore, despite the NP-hard optimal colouring problem, the multiset approach with greedy colouring algorithms already offers asymptotically quadratic improvement in test cases.
title Optimizing quantum measurements by partitioning multisets of observables
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07068