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| author | Avella, Victor Gonzalez Vargas, Abraham Vega Vergara, Tomas Merlo Doria, Kevin de la Ossa Czartowski, Jakub Main, Dougal Araneda, Gabriel Delgado, Aldo Goyeneche, Dardo |
| author_facet | Avella, Victor Gonzalez Vargas, Abraham Vega Vergara, Tomas Merlo Doria, Kevin de la Ossa Czartowski, Jakub Main, Dougal Araneda, Gabriel Delgado, Aldo Goyeneche, Dardo |
| contents | We present two scalable and entanglement-free methods for estimating the collective state of an n-qubit quantum computer. The first method consists of a fixed set of five quantum circuits-regardless of the number of qubits-that avoid the use of entanglement as a measurement resource, relying instead on classical communication between selected pairs of qubits. The second method requires only 2n+1 circuits, each of which applies a single local gate to one of the n qubits during the measurement stage. Unlike traditional estimation methods, our approaches do not require any costly post-processing procedure to estimate a quantum state, enabling scalability to relatively large system sizes. We experimentally compare both methods on freely available IBM quantum processors, and observe how the state estimation varies with increasing number of qubits and shots. We further validated our results by estimating the 4-qubit entangled state of two remote ion-trap quantum processors, demonstrating that the optimized 2n+1 tomographic scheme achieves estimates consistent with standard methods while using exponentially fewer measurements. |
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| spellingShingle | Efficient state estimation on quantum processors Avella, Victor Gonzalez Vargas, Abraham Vega Vergara, Tomas Merlo Doria, Kevin de la Ossa Czartowski, Jakub Main, Dougal Araneda, Gabriel Delgado, Aldo Goyeneche, Dardo Quantum Physics We present two scalable and entanglement-free methods for estimating the collective state of an n-qubit quantum computer. The first method consists of a fixed set of five quantum circuits-regardless of the number of qubits-that avoid the use of entanglement as a measurement resource, relying instead on classical communication between selected pairs of qubits. The second method requires only 2n+1 circuits, each of which applies a single local gate to one of the n qubits during the measurement stage. Unlike traditional estimation methods, our approaches do not require any costly post-processing procedure to estimate a quantum state, enabling scalability to relatively large system sizes. We experimentally compare both methods on freely available IBM quantum processors, and observe how the state estimation varies with increasing number of qubits and shots. We further validated our results by estimating the 4-qubit entangled state of two remote ion-trap quantum processors, demonstrating that the optimized 2n+1 tomographic scheme achieves estimates consistent with standard methods while using exponentially fewer measurements. |
| title | Efficient state estimation on quantum processors |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16117 |