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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

A fibre bundle over manifolds of quantum channels and its application to quantum statistics

Akio Fujiwara, Hiroshi Imai

Published May 23, 2008• 163 citations
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Abstract

A fibre bundle structure is introduced over manifolds of quantum channels. This structure has a close connection with the problem of estimating an unknown quantum channel Γ θ specified by a parameter θ. It is shown that the quantum Fisher information of the family of output states maximized over all input states , which quantifies the ultimate statistical distinguishability of the parameter θ, is expressed in terms of a geometrical quantity on the fibre bundle. Using this formula, a criterion for the maximum quantum Fisher information of the n th extended channel (id ⊗ Γ θ ) ⊗ n to be O ( n ) is derived. This criterion further proves that for almost all quantum channels, the maximum quantum Fisher information increases in the order of O ( n ).

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/41/25/255304

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A fibre bundle structure is introduced over manifolds of quantum channels. This structure has a close connection with the problem of estimating an unknown quantum channel Γ θ specified by a parameter θ. It is shown that the quantum Fisher information of the family of output states maximized over all input states , which quantifies the ultimate statistical distinguishability of the parameter θ, is expressed in terms of a geometrical quantity on the fibre bundle. Using this formula, a criterion for the maximum quantum Fisher information of the n th extended channel (id ⊗ Γ θ ) ⊗ n to be O ( n ) is derived. This criterion further proves that for almost all quantum channels, the maximum quantum Fisher information increases in the order of O ( n ).
We present a quantum parameter estimation theory for a generalized Pauli channel Γ θ : ( d ) → ( d ), where the parameter θ is regarded as a coordinate system of the probability simplex d 2 −1 . We show that for each degree n of extension (id ⊗ Γ θ ) ⊗ n : (( d ⊗ d ) ⊗ n ) → (( d ⊗ d ) ⊗ n ), the SLD Fisher information matrix for the output states takes the maximum when the input state is an n -tensor product of a maximally entangled state τ ME ∊ ( d ⊗ d ). We further prove that for the corresponding quantum Cramér–Rao inequality, there is an efficient estimator if and only if the parameter θ is ∇ m -affine in d 2 −1 . These results rely on the fact that the family {id ⊗ Γ θ (τ ME )} θ of output states can be identified with d 2 −1 in the sense of quantum information geometry. This fact further allows us to investigate submodels of generalized Pauli channels in a unified manner.
We define a local Riemannian metric tensor in the manifold of Gaussian channels and the distance that it induces. We adopt an information-geometric approach and define a metric derived from the Bures-Fisher metric for quantum states. The resulting metric inherits several desirable properties from the Bures-Fisher metric and is operationally motivated by distinguishability considerations: It serves as an upper bound to the attainable quantum Fisher information for the channel parameters using Gaussian states, under generic constraints on the physically available resources. Our approach naturally includes the use of entangled Gaussian probe states. We prove that the metric enjoys some desirable properties like stability and covariance. As a by-product, we also obtain some general results in Gaussian channel estimation that are the continuous-variable analogs of previously known results in finite dimensions. We prove that optimal probe states are always pure and bounded in the number of ancillary modes, even in the presence of constraints on the reduced state input in the channel. This has experimental and computational implications. It limits the complexity of optimal experimental setups for channel estimation and reduces the computational requirements for the evaluation of the metric: Indeed, we construct a converging algorithm for its computation. We provide explicit formulas for computing the multiparametric quantum Fisher information for dissipative channels probed with arbitrary Gaussian states and provide the optimal observables for the estimation of the channel parameters (e.g., bath couplings, squeezing, and temperature).
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In estimating an unknown parameter of a quantum state the quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a pivotal quantity, which depends on the state and its derivate with respect to the unknown parameter. We prove the continuity property for the QFI in the sense that two close states with close first derivatives have close QFIs. This property is completely general and irrespective of dynamics or how states acquire their parameter dependence and also the form of parameter dependence---indeed this continuity is basically a feature of the classical Fisher information that in the case of the QFI naturally carries over from the manifold of probability distributions onto the manifold of density matrices. We demonstrate that, in the special case where the dependence of the states on the unknown parameter comes from one dynamical map (quantum channel), the continuity holds in its reduced form with respect to the initial states. In addition, we show that, when one initial state evolves through two different quantum channels, the continuity relation applies in its general form. A situation in which such a scenario can occur is an open-system metrology where one of the maps represents the ideal dynamics, whereas the other map represents the real (noisy) dynamics. In the making of our main result, we also introduce a regularized representation for the symmetric logarithmic derivative which works for general states even with incomplete rank, and it features continuity similar to the QFI.
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The quantum Fisher information (QFI), as a function of quantum states, measures the amount of information that a quantum state carries about an unknown parameter.The (entanglement-assisted) QFI of a quantum channel is defined to be the maximum QFI of the output state assuming an entangled input state over a single probe and an ancilla.In quantum metrology, people are interested in calculating the QFI of N identical copies of a quantum channel when N → ∞, which is called the asymptotic QFI.Over the years, researchers found various types of upper bounds of the asymptotic QFI, but they were proven achievable only in several specific situations.It was known that the asymptotic QFI of an arbitrary quantum channel grows either linearly or quadratically with N .Here we show that a simple criterion can determine whether the scaling is linear or quadratic.In both cases, the asymptotic QFI and a quantum error correction protocol to achieve it are computable via a semidefinite program.When the scaling is quadratic, the Heisenberg limit, a feature of noiseless quantum channels, is recovered.When the scaling is linear, we show that the asymptotic QFI is still in general larger than N times the single-channel QFI and, furthermore, that sequential estimation strategies provide no advantage over parallel ones.