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Optimal and adaptive quantum detector tomography

Shuixin Xiao, Yuanlong Wang, Daoyi Dong, Jun Zhang

Published Jun 17, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

Quantum detector tomography is a fundamental technique for calibrating quantum devices and performing quantum engineering tasks. In this paper, we design optimal probe states for detector estimation based on the minimum upper bound of the mean squared error (UMSE) and the maximum robustness. We establish the minimum UMSE and the minimum condition number for quantum detectors and provide concrete examples that can achieve optimal detector tomography. In order to enhance estimation precision, we also propose a two-step adaptive detector tomography algorithm and investigate how this adaptive strategy can be used to achieve efficient estimation of quantum detectors. Moreover, the superposition of coherent states are used as probe states for quantum detector tomography and the estimation error is analyzed. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of both the proposed optimal and adaptive quantum detector tomography methods.

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