Heisenberg-Limited Quantum Hamiltonian Learning via Randomly Spread Product-States

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Baran, Bora, Heightman, Timothy
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866915646170726400
author Baran, Bora
Heightman, Timothy
author_facet Baran, Bora
Heightman, Timothy
contents We show how one can asymptotically reach the Heisenberg limit in quantum Hamiltonian learning without entanglement, globally coherent measurements, or dynamical control, using only local quantum operations. Our protocol uses ensemble-averaging over the outcomes of experiments initialized in Haar-random local product states, accompanied by random Pauli measurements, leading to the effective cancellation of interference terms so that a Heisenberg-limited regime emerges for short-time experiments. Furthermore, we show that the act of ensemble averaging makes unbiased estimation data, meaning all Hamiltonian parameters can be simultaneously estimated from the same data-set, removing the need for parameter isolation. We supplement the theoretical results by showing empirically that, even away from the asymptotic limit, one can surpass the SQL using randomly spread product-state ensembles. We do so numerically by learning a selection of different disordered multi-qubit Hamiltonians in a black-box learning scenario.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2507_21374
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Heisenberg-Limited Quantum Hamiltonian Learning via Randomly Spread Product-States
Baran, Bora
Heightman, Timothy
Quantum Physics
We show how one can asymptotically reach the Heisenberg limit in quantum Hamiltonian learning without entanglement, globally coherent measurements, or dynamical control, using only local quantum operations. Our protocol uses ensemble-averaging over the outcomes of experiments initialized in Haar-random local product states, accompanied by random Pauli measurements, leading to the effective cancellation of interference terms so that a Heisenberg-limited regime emerges for short-time experiments. Furthermore, we show that the act of ensemble averaging makes unbiased estimation data, meaning all Hamiltonian parameters can be simultaneously estimated from the same data-set, removing the need for parameter isolation. We supplement the theoretical results by showing empirically that, even away from the asymptotic limit, one can surpass the SQL using randomly spread product-state ensembles. We do so numerically by learning a selection of different disordered multi-qubit Hamiltonians in a black-box learning scenario.
title Heisenberg-Limited Quantum Hamiltonian Learning via Randomly Spread Product-States
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21374