Online Quantum State Tomography via Stochastic Gradient Descent

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Autores principales: Cai, Jian-Feng, Jiao, Yuling, Li, Yinan, Lu, Xiliang, Yang, Jerry Zhijian, You, Juntao
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Publicado: 2025
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author Cai, Jian-Feng
Jiao, Yuling
Li, Yinan
Lu, Xiliang
Yang, Jerry Zhijian
You, Juntao
author_facet Cai, Jian-Feng
Jiao, Yuling
Li, Yinan
Lu, Xiliang
Yang, Jerry Zhijian
You, Juntao
contents We initiate the study of online quantum state tomography (QST), where the matrix representation of an unknown quantum state is reconstructed by sequentially performing a batch of measurements and updating the state estimate using only the measurement statistics from the current round. Motivated by recent advances in non-convex optimization algorithms for solving low-rank QST, we propose non-convex mini-batch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms to tackle online QST, which leverage the low-rank structure of the unknown quantum state and are well-suited for practical applications. Our main technical contribution is a rigorous convergence analysis of these algorithms. With proper initialization, we demonstrate that the SGD algorithms for online low-rank QST achieve linear convergence both in expectation and with high probability. Our algorithms achieve nearly optimal sample complexity while remaining highly memory-efficient. In particular, their time complexities are better than the state-of-the-art non-convex QST algorithms, in terms of the rank and the logarithm of the dimension of the unknown quantum state.
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spellingShingle Online Quantum State Tomography via Stochastic Gradient Descent
Cai, Jian-Feng
Jiao, Yuling
Li, Yinan
Lu, Xiliang
Yang, Jerry Zhijian
You, Juntao
Quantum Physics
We initiate the study of online quantum state tomography (QST), where the matrix representation of an unknown quantum state is reconstructed by sequentially performing a batch of measurements and updating the state estimate using only the measurement statistics from the current round. Motivated by recent advances in non-convex optimization algorithms for solving low-rank QST, we propose non-convex mini-batch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms to tackle online QST, which leverage the low-rank structure of the unknown quantum state and are well-suited for practical applications. Our main technical contribution is a rigorous convergence analysis of these algorithms. With proper initialization, we demonstrate that the SGD algorithms for online low-rank QST achieve linear convergence both in expectation and with high probability. Our algorithms achieve nearly optimal sample complexity while remaining highly memory-efficient. In particular, their time complexities are better than the state-of-the-art non-convex QST algorithms, in terms of the rank and the logarithm of the dimension of the unknown quantum state.
title Online Quantum State Tomography via Stochastic Gradient Descent
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07601