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Diluted maximum-likelihood algorithm for quantum tomography

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

We propose a refined iterative likelihood-maximization algorithm for reconstructing a quantum state from a set of tomographic measurements. The algorithm is characterized by a very high convergence rate and features a simple adaptive procedure that ensures likelihood increase in every iteration and convergence to the maximum-likelihood state. We apply the algorithm to homodyne tomography of optical states and quantum tomography of entangled spin states of trapped ions and investigate its convergence properties.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0611244,
  title  = {Diluted maximum-likelihood algorithm for quantum tomography},
  author = {Jaroslav Rehacek and Zdenek Hradil and E. Knill and A. I. Lvovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0611244},
  year   = {2009}
}

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v2: Convergence proof added