Optimal quantum state tomography with local informationally complete measurements

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Main Authors: Jameson, Casey, Qin, Zhen, Goldar, Alireza, Wakin, Michael B., Zhu, Zhihui, Gong, Zhexuan
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author Jameson, Casey
Qin, Zhen
Goldar, Alireza
Wakin, Michael B.
Zhu, Zhihui
Gong, Zhexuan
author_facet Jameson, Casey
Qin, Zhen
Goldar, Alireza
Wakin, Michael B.
Zhu, Zhihui
Gong, Zhexuan
contents Quantum state tomography (QST) remains the gold standard for benchmarking and verification of near-term quantum devices. While QST for a generic quantum many-body state requires an exponentially large amount of resources, most physical quantum states are structured and can often be represented by a much smaller number of parameters, making efficient QST potentially possible. A prominent example is a matrix product state (MPS) or a matrix product density operator (MPDO), which is believed to represent most physical states generated by one-dimensional (1D) quantum devices. We study whether a general MPS/MPDO state can be recovered with bounded errors using only a number of state copies polynomial in the number of qubits, which is necessary for efficient QST. To make this question practically interesting, we assume only local measurements of qubits directly on the target state. By using a local symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measurement (SIC-POVM), we provide a positive answer to the above question for a variety of common many-body quantum states, including typical short-range entangled states, random MPS/MPDO states, and thermal states of one-dimensional Hamiltonians. In addition, we also provide an affirmative no answer for certain long-range entangled states such as a family of generalized GHZ states, but with the exception of target states that are known to have real-valued wavefunctions. Our answers are supported by a near-perfect agreement between an efficient calculation of the Cramer-Rao bound that rigorously bounds the sample complexity and numerical optimization results using a machine learning assisted maximal likelihood estimation (MLE) algorithm. This agreement also leads to an optimal QST protocol using local SIC-POVM that can be practically implemented on current quantum hardware and is highly efficient for most 1D physical states.
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spellingShingle Optimal quantum state tomography with local informationally complete measurements
Jameson, Casey
Qin, Zhen
Goldar, Alireza
Wakin, Michael B.
Zhu, Zhihui
Gong, Zhexuan
Quantum Physics
Quantum state tomography (QST) remains the gold standard for benchmarking and verification of near-term quantum devices. While QST for a generic quantum many-body state requires an exponentially large amount of resources, most physical quantum states are structured and can often be represented by a much smaller number of parameters, making efficient QST potentially possible. A prominent example is a matrix product state (MPS) or a matrix product density operator (MPDO), which is believed to represent most physical states generated by one-dimensional (1D) quantum devices. We study whether a general MPS/MPDO state can be recovered with bounded errors using only a number of state copies polynomial in the number of qubits, which is necessary for efficient QST. To make this question practically interesting, we assume only local measurements of qubits directly on the target state. By using a local symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measurement (SIC-POVM), we provide a positive answer to the above question for a variety of common many-body quantum states, including typical short-range entangled states, random MPS/MPDO states, and thermal states of one-dimensional Hamiltonians. In addition, we also provide an affirmative no answer for certain long-range entangled states such as a family of generalized GHZ states, but with the exception of target states that are known to have real-valued wavefunctions. Our answers are supported by a near-perfect agreement between an efficient calculation of the Cramer-Rao bound that rigorously bounds the sample complexity and numerical optimization results using a machine learning assisted maximal likelihood estimation (MLE) algorithm. This agreement also leads to an optimal QST protocol using local SIC-POVM that can be practically implemented on current quantum hardware and is highly efficient for most 1D physical states.
title Optimal quantum state tomography with local informationally complete measurements
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07115