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Certifying quantum memories with coherence

Quantum Physics 2019-06-19 v2

Abstract

Quantum memories are an important building block for quantum information processing. Ideally, these memories preserve the quantum properties of the input. We present general criteria for measures to evaluate the quality of quantum memories. Then, we introduce a quality measure based on coherence satisfying these criteria, which we characterize in detail for the qubit case. The measure can be estimated from sparse experimental data and may be generalized to characterize other building blocks, such as quantum gates and teleportation schemes.

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@article{arxiv.1809.03403,
  title  = {Certifying quantum memories with coherence},
  author = {Timo Simnacher and Nikolai Wyderka and Cornelia Spee and Xiao-Dong Yu and Otfried Gühne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03403},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures

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