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Haar-random and pretty good measurements for Bayesian state estimation

Quantum Physics 2024-06-06 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study Haar-random bases and pretty good measurement for Bayesian state estimation. Given NN Haar-random bases we derive a bound on fidelity averaged over IID sequences of such random measurements for a uniform ensemble of pure states. For ensembles of mixed qubit states, we find that measurements defined through unitary 2-designs closely approximate those defined via Haar random unitaries while the Pauli group only gives a weak lower bound. For a single-shot-update, we show using the Petz recovery map for pretty good measurement that it can give pretty good Bayesian mean estimates.

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@article{arxiv.2310.20565,
  title  = {Haar-random and pretty good measurements for Bayesian state estimation},
  author = {Maria Quadeer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.20565},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Removed Corollary 1 and Figures 1 & 7; updated Figure 5 (minor bug fix from Dec. GitHub update)

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