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Modelling Quantum Devices and the Reconstruction of Physics in Practical Systems

Quantum Physics 2019-10-08 v1

Abstract

Modelling quantum devices is to find a model according to quantum theory that can explain the result of experiments in a quantum device. We find that usually we cannot correctly identify the model describing the actual physics of the device regardless of the experimental effort given a limited set of operations. According to sufficient conditions that we find, correctly reconstructing the model requires either a particular set of pure states and projective measurements or a set of evolution operators that can generate all unitary operators.

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@article{arxiv.1910.02177,
  title  = {Modelling Quantum Devices and the Reconstruction of Physics in Practical Systems},
  author = {Hang Ren and Ying Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.02177},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures

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