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Main Authors: Oba, Junpei, Lo, Hsin-Pin, Yamada, Yasuhiro, Matsui, Takayuki, Ikuta, Takuya, Yonezu, Yuya, Honjo, Toshimori, Kajita, Seiji, Takesue, Hiroki
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05538
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author Oba, Junpei
Lo, Hsin-Pin
Yamada, Yasuhiro
Matsui, Takayuki
Ikuta, Takuya
Yonezu, Yuya
Honjo, Toshimori
Kajita, Seiji
Takesue, Hiroki
author_facet Oba, Junpei
Lo, Hsin-Pin
Yamada, Yasuhiro
Matsui, Takayuki
Ikuta, Takuya
Yonezu, Yuya
Honjo, Toshimori
Kajita, Seiji
Takesue, Hiroki
contents High-quality quantum state generation is essential for advanced quantum information processing, including quantum communication, quantum sensing, and quantum computing. In practice, various error sources degrade the quality of quantum states, and quantum state tomography (QST) is a standard diagnostic tool. However, in QST, multiple error sources gather in a single density matrix, making it difficult to identify individual error sources. To address this problem, we propose an automated method for quantifying error sources by combining simulation and parameter optimization to reproduce the experimental density matrix. We focus on the experimental generation of time-bin entangled photon pairs, for which we model the relevant error sources and simulate the density matrix with adjustable model parameters, thereby optimizing the parameters and minimizing the trace distance to the experimental data. Optimization of the parameters reduced the trace distance from 0.177 to 0.024, indicating that our modeled error sources explain 86% of the errors. Reducing the predicted error sources improves the state quality, consistent with our predictions and thus validating the proposed method. In addition, the modular structure of this framework makes it applicable to other quantum platforms, such as superconducting qubits, atoms, and solid-state spins.
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spellingShingle Model-based framework for automated quantification of error sources in quantum state tomography
Oba, Junpei
Lo, Hsin-Pin
Yamada, Yasuhiro
Matsui, Takayuki
Ikuta, Takuya
Yonezu, Yuya
Honjo, Toshimori
Kajita, Seiji
Takesue, Hiroki
Quantum Physics
Computational Physics
Optics
High-quality quantum state generation is essential for advanced quantum information processing, including quantum communication, quantum sensing, and quantum computing. In practice, various error sources degrade the quality of quantum states, and quantum state tomography (QST) is a standard diagnostic tool. However, in QST, multiple error sources gather in a single density matrix, making it difficult to identify individual error sources. To address this problem, we propose an automated method for quantifying error sources by combining simulation and parameter optimization to reproduce the experimental density matrix. We focus on the experimental generation of time-bin entangled photon pairs, for which we model the relevant error sources and simulate the density matrix with adjustable model parameters, thereby optimizing the parameters and minimizing the trace distance to the experimental data. Optimization of the parameters reduced the trace distance from 0.177 to 0.024, indicating that our modeled error sources explain 86% of the errors. Reducing the predicted error sources improves the state quality, consistent with our predictions and thus validating the proposed method. In addition, the modular structure of this framework makes it applicable to other quantum platforms, such as superconducting qubits, atoms, and solid-state spins.
title Model-based framework for automated quantification of error sources in quantum state tomography
topic Quantum Physics
Computational Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05538