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Ancilla assisted measurements on quantum ensembles: General protocols and applications in NMR quantum information processing

Quantum Physics 2015-09-16 v1

Abstract

Quantum ensembles form easily accessible architectures for studying various phenomena in quantum physics, quantum information science, and spectroscopy. Here we review some recent protocols for measurements in quantum ensembles by utilizing ancillary systems. We also illustrate these protocols experimentally via nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. In particular, we shall review noninvasive measurements, extracting expectation values of various operators, characterizations of quantum states, and quantum processes, and finally quantum noise engineering.

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@article{arxiv.1509.04506,
  title  = {Ancilla assisted measurements on quantum ensembles: General protocols and applications in NMR quantum information processing},
  author = {T. S. Mahesh and Abhishek Shukla and Swathi S. Hegde and C. S. Sudheer Kumar and Hemant Katiyar and Sharad Joshi and K. R. Koteswara Rao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04506},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 11 figures