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Non-Holonomic Tomography: A Method for Assessing Various State-Preparation and Measurement Correlations

Christopher S. Jackson

Published Sep 27, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

The following dissertation investigates a problem related to the practice of quantum tomography, where one usually estimates the parameters associated with quantum states or measurements. \n \nIn particular, the question answered is whether and how one could detect if states and measurements are correlated. \n \nA similar question answered is how one could detect state-preparation non-localities and measurement non-localities in multiqudit systems. \n \nThe solution involves an analysis of certain matrix quantities called \\emph{partial determinants}. \n \nPartial determinants are an application of the Born rule that can be interpreted as tomography over a loop in the space of state and measurement settings. \n \nFrom this perspective, the notion of state and observable become \\emph{non-holonomic} \n \n| that is, state and observable parameters can be defined ``locally'' over each setting but not globally over all settings. \n \nAs such, state and measurement parameters are not estimated because such estimated values don't exist in correlated systems, but rather the inability to estimate such values is quantified. \n \nTherefore, partial determinants are a measure of the amount of contradiction that would result from any claim of such a estimated values by propagating these estimates through a `tomography loop' of data collected by various experiments. \n \nSuch measures of contradiction are generally known as \\emph{holonomies}.

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The following dissertation investigates a problem related to the practice of quantum tomography, where one usually estimates the parameters associated with quantum states or measurements. \n \nIn particular, the question answered is whether and how one could detect if states and measurements are correlated. \n \nA similar question answered is how one could detect state-preparation non-localities and measurement non-localities in multiqudit systems. \n \nThe solution involves an analysis of certain matrix quantities called \emph{partial determinants}. \n \nPartial determinants are an application of the Born rule that can be interpreted as tomography over a loop in the space of state and measurement settings. \n \nFrom this perspective, the notion of state and observable become \emph{non-holonomic} \n \n| that is, state and observable parameters can be defined ``locally'' over each setting but not globally over all settings. \n \nAs such, state and measurement parameters are not estimated because such estimated values don't exist in correlated systems, but rather the inability to estimate such values is quantified. \n \nTherefore, partial determinants are a measure of the amount of contradiction that would result from any claim of such a estimated values by propagating these estimates through a `tomography loop' of data collected by various experiments. \n \nSuch measures of contradiction are generally known as \emph{holonomies}.
In the context of quantum tomography, quantities called partial determinants [C. Jackson and S. J. van Enk, Phys. Rev. A 92, 042312 (2015)] were recently introduced. Partial determinants (PDs) are explicit functions of the collected data that are sensitive to the presence of state preparation and measurement (SPAM) correlations. In this paper we demonstrate further applications of the PD and its generalizations. In particular, we construct methods for detecting various types of SPAM correlation in multiqudit systems, e.g., measurement-measurement correlations. The relationship between the PDs of each method and the correlations they are sensitive to is topological. We give a complete classification scheme for all such methods but focus on the explicit details of only the most scalable methods, for which the number of settings scales as O(d4)O({d}^{4})O(d4). This paper is the second of a two-part series where the preceding paper [C. Jackson and S. van Enk, preceding paper, Phys. Rev. A 95, 052327 (2017)] is about a theoretical perspective for the PD, particularly its interpretation as a holonomy.
In the context of quantum tomography, we recently introduced a quantity called a partial determinant [C. Jackson and S. J. van Enk, Phys. Rev. A 92, 042312 (2015)]. Partial determinants (PDs) are explicit functions of the collected data that are sensitive to the presence of state preparation and measurement correlated errors. As such, PDs bypass the need to estimate state preparation or measurement parameters individually. In the present work, we suggest a theoretical perspective for the PD. We show that the PD is a holonomy and that the notions of state, measurement, and tomography can be generalized to nonholonomic constraints. To illustrate and clarify these abstract concepts, direct analogies are made to parallel transport, thermodynamics, and gauge field theory. This paper is the first of a two-part series where the following paper is about scalable generalizations of the PD in multiqudit systems, with possible applications for debugging a quantum computer.
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In the context of quantum tomography, we recently introduced a quantity called a partial determinant \cite{jackson2015detecting}. PDs (partial determinants) are explicit functions of the collected data which are sensitive to the presence of state-preparation-and-measurement (SPAM) correlations. Importantly, this is done without any need to estimate state-preparation or measurement parameters. In the present work, we wish to better explain our theoretical perspective behind the PD. Further, we would like to demonstrate that there is an overwhelming variety of applications and generalizations of the PD. In particular we will construct methods for detecting SPAM correlations in multiqudit systems. The relationship between the PDs of each method and the correlations they are sensitive to is topological. We give a classification of all such methods but focus on explicitly detailing only the most scalable methods, O(d4)\mathcal{O}(d^4)O(d4).
Whereas in standard quantum-state tomography one estimates an unknown state by performing various measurements with known devices, and whereas in detector tomography one estimates the positive-operator-valued-measurement elements of a measurement device by subjecting to it various known states, we consider here the case of SPAM (state preparation and measurement) tomography where neither the states nor the measurement device are assumed known. For ddd-dimensional systems measured by ddd-outcome detectors, we find there are at most ${d}^{2}({d}^{2}\ensuremath{-}1)$ ``gauge'' parameters that can never be determined by any such experiment, irrespective of the number of unknown states and unknown devices. For the case d=2d=2d=2 we find gauge-invariant quantities that can be accessed directly experimentally and that can be used to detect and describe SPAM errors. In particular, we identify conditions whose violations detect the presence of correlations between SPAM errors. From the perspective of SPAM tomography, standard quantum-state tomography and detector tomography are protocols that fix the gauge parameters through the assumption that some set of fiducial measurements is known or that some set of fiducial states is known, respectively.
Reconstructing the full quantum state of a many-body system requires the estimation of a number of parameters that grows exponentially with system size. Nevertheless, there are situations in which one is only interested in a subset of these parameters, and a full reconstruction is not needed. A paradigmatic example is a scenario in which one aims at determining all the reduced states only up to a given size. Overlapping tomography provides constructions to address this problem with a number of product measurements much smaller than what is obtained when performing independent tomography of each reduced state. There are, however, many relevant physical systems with a natural notion of locality where one is mostly interested in the reduced states of neighboring particles. In this work, we study this form of local overlapping tomography. First of all, we show that, contrary to its full version, the number of product-measurement settings needed for local overlapping tomography does not grow with system size. Then, we present strategies for qubit and fermionic systems in selected lattice geometries. The developed methods find a natural application in the estimation of many-body systems prepared in current quantum simulators or quantum computing devices, where interactions are often local.