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Main Authors: Sengupta, Aniket, Chatterjee, Arijit, Sreejith, G. J., Mahesh, T. S.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14491
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author Sengupta, Aniket
Chatterjee, Arijit
Sreejith, G. J.
Mahesh, T. S.
author_facet Sengupta, Aniket
Chatterjee, Arijit
Sreejith, G. J.
Mahesh, T. S.
contents Quantum shadow tomography based on the classical shadow representation provides an efficient way to estimate properties of an unknown quantum state without performing a full quantum state tomography. In scenarios where estimating the expectation values for only certain classes of observables is required, obtaining information about the entire density matrix is unnecessary. We propose a partial quantum shadow tomography protocol that estimates a subset of density matrix elements relevant to the expectation values of structured observables. Specifically, we identify specific subsets of the tomographically complete set ${\mathrm{Cl}}(2)^{\otimes n}$ and a simple pseudo-inverse of the associated channel, which can be used to estimate all elements of the density matrix with the same active order. By restricting the protocol to smaller subsets of single-qubit Pauli measurements, it becomes experimentally more efficient. We demonstrate the advantage over unitary designs, such as the Clifford, full Pauli basis, and methods utilizing mutually unbiased bases, by analytically deriving error bounds and numerically evaluating the protocol on structured operators. We experimentally demonstrate the partial shadow estimation scheme for a wide class of two-qubit states (pure, entangled, and mixed) in the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) platform. The full density matrix, reconstructed experimentally by combining different partial estimators, achieves fidelities around 99%.
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spellingShingle Partial Quantum Shadow Tomography for Structured Operators and its Experimental Demonstration using NMR
Sengupta, Aniket
Chatterjee, Arijit
Sreejith, G. J.
Mahesh, T. S.
Quantum Physics
Quantum shadow tomography based on the classical shadow representation provides an efficient way to estimate properties of an unknown quantum state without performing a full quantum state tomography. In scenarios where estimating the expectation values for only certain classes of observables is required, obtaining information about the entire density matrix is unnecessary. We propose a partial quantum shadow tomography protocol that estimates a subset of density matrix elements relevant to the expectation values of structured observables. Specifically, we identify specific subsets of the tomographically complete set ${\mathrm{Cl}}(2)^{\otimes n}$ and a simple pseudo-inverse of the associated channel, which can be used to estimate all elements of the density matrix with the same active order. By restricting the protocol to smaller subsets of single-qubit Pauli measurements, it becomes experimentally more efficient. We demonstrate the advantage over unitary designs, such as the Clifford, full Pauli basis, and methods utilizing mutually unbiased bases, by analytically deriving error bounds and numerically evaluating the protocol on structured operators. We experimentally demonstrate the partial shadow estimation scheme for a wide class of two-qubit states (pure, entangled, and mixed) in the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) platform. The full density matrix, reconstructed experimentally by combining different partial estimators, achieves fidelities around 99%.
title Partial Quantum Shadow Tomography for Structured Operators and its Experimental Demonstration using NMR
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14491