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Dynamical quantum state tomography with time-dependent channels

Quantum Physics 2024-02-09 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we establish a dynamical quantum state tomography framework. Under this framework, it is feasible to obtain complete knowledge of any unknown state of a dd-level system via only an arbitrary operator of certain types of IC-POVMs in dimension dd. We show that under the time-dependent average channel, we can acquire a collection of projective operators that is informationally complete (IC) and thus obtain the corresponding IC-POVMs. We show that under certain condition, it is possible to obtain infinite families of projective operators that are IC, and obtain infinite families of corresponding IC-POVMs; otherwise, the Zauner's conjecture is incorrect. We also show how to simulate a SIC-POVM on any unknown quantum state by using the time-dependent average channel.

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@article{arxiv.2402.05431,
  title  = {Dynamical quantum state tomography with time-dependent channels},
  author = {Meng Cao and Yu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05431},
  year   = {2024}
}

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