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Quantum eigenstate tomography with qubit tunneling spectroscopy

Anatoly Yu. Smirnov, M. H. S. Amin

Published Jan 1, 2017• 1 citation
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Abstract

Measurement of the energy eigenvalues (spectrum) of a multi-qubit system has recently become possible by qubit tunneling spectroscopy (QTS). In the standard QTS experiments, an incoherent probe qubit is strongly coupled to one of the qubits of the system in such a way that its incoherent tunneling rate provides information about the energy eigenvalues of the original (source) system. In this paper, we generalize QTS by coupling the probe qubit to many source qubits. We show that by properly choosing the couplings, one can perform projective measurements of the source system energy eigenstates in an arbitrary basis, thus performing quantum eigenstate tomography. As a practical example of a limited tomography, we apply our scheme to probe the eigenstates of a kink in a frustrated transverse Ising chain.

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In projective measurements of energy, a target system is projected to an eigenstate of the system Hamiltonian and the measurement outcomes provide the information of corresponding eigenenergies. Recently, it has been shown that such a measurement can be, in principle, realized without detailed knowledge of the Hamiltonian by using probe qubits. However, in this approach, the size of the dimension for the probe increases as we increase the dimension of the target system; also, individual addressability of every qubit is required, which may not be possible for many experimental settings involving large systems. Here, we show that a single probe qubit is sufficient to perform such a projective measurement of energy if the target system is composed of noninteracting qubits whose resonant frequencies are unknown. Moreover, our scheme requires only global manipulations where every qubit is subjected to the same control fields. These results indicate the feasibility of our energy-projection protocols.
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