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The unavoidable presence of noise is a crucial roadblock for the development of large-scale quantum computers and the ability to characterize quantum noise reliably and efficiently with high precision is essential to scale quantum…

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We investigate strategies for estimating a depolarizing channel for a finite dimensional system. Our analysis addresses the double optimization problem of selecting the best input probe state and the measurement strategy that minimizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahide Sasaki , Masashi Ban , Stephen M. Barnett

We consider the problem of optimally discriminating two Pauli channels in the minimax strategy, maximizing the smallest of the probabilities of correct identification of the channel. We find the optimal input state at the channel and show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Mauro D'Ariano , Massimiliano F. Sacchi , Jonas Kahn

The Pauli channel is a fundamental model of noise in quantum systems, motivating the task of Pauli error estimation. We present an algorithm that builds on the reduction to Population Recovery introduced in [FO21]. Addressing an open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Ryan O'Donnell , Samvitti Sharma

Designing a mixed quantum channel is challenging due to the complexity of the transformations and the probabilistic mixtures of more straightforward channels involved. Fully characterizing a quantum channel generally requires preparing a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Matthew M. Lin , Bing-Ze Lu

As the connection between classical and quantum worlds, quantum measurements play a unique role in the era of quantum information processing. Given an arbitrary function of quantum measurements, how to obtain its optimal value is often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Jing Luo , Jiangwei Shang

In this paper we shall introduce the mathematical framework for the description of measurements of quantum processes. Using this framework the process estimation problems can be treated in the similar way as the state estimation problems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mario Ziman

Accurate characterization of quantum noise, exemplified by the Pauli channel, is a cornerstone for building fault-tolerant quantum computers. A recent protocol (PRX Quantum 6, 020323 (2025)) combining channel concatenation and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yuan-Zhuo Wang , Yi-Ran Xiao , Ming-Yang Li , Shengjun Wu , Zeng-Bing Chen

Using mathematical models to assist in the interpretation of experiments is becoming increasingly important in research across applied mathematics, and in particular in biology and ecology. In this context, accurate parameter estimation is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Jie Qi , Ruth E. Baker

Quantum state tomography aims to determine the state of a quantum system as represented by a density matrix. It is a fundamental task in modern scientific studies involving quantum systems. In this paper, we study estimation of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-25 Tony Cai , Donggyu Kim , Yazhen Wang , Ming Yuan , Harrison H. Zhou

We explore the task of optimal quantum channel identification, and in particular the estimation of a general one parameter quantum process. We derive new characterizations of optimality and apply the results to several examples including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mohan Sarovar , G. J. Milburn

Maximizing the precision in estimating parameters in a quantum system subject to instrumentation constraints is cast as a convex optimization problem. We account for prior knowledge about the parameter range by developing a worst-case and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-01 Robert L. Kosut

We propose and investigate a new method of quantum process tomography (QPT) which we call projected least squares (PLS). In short, PLS consists of first computing the least-squares estimator of the Choi matrix of an unknown channel, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Trystan Surawy-Stepney , Jonas Kahn , Richard Kueng , Madalin Guta

In this review we discuss how channel simulation can be used to simplify the most general protocols of quantum parameter estimation, where unlimited entanglement and adaptive joint operations may be employed. Whenever the unknown parameter…

We report experimental implementation of various types of qubit channels using an individual trapped ion. We analyzed experimental data and we performed tomographic reconstruction of quantum channels based on these data. Specifically, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-07 Thilo Hannemann , Christof Wunderlich , Martin Plesch , Mario Ziman , Vladimir Buzek

Estimation of model parameters in a dynamic system can be significantly improved with the choice of experimental trajectory. For general, nonlinear dynamic systems, finding globally "best" trajectories is typically not feasible; however,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Andrew D. Wilson , Jarvis A. Schultz , Todd D. Murphey

We discuss the estimation of channel parameters for a noisy quantum channel - the so-called Pauli channel - using finite resources. It turns out that prior entanglement considerably enhances the fidelity of the estimation when we compare it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dietmar G. Fischer , Holger Mack , Markus A. Cirone , Matthias Freyberger

We present a quantum process-tomography protocol based on a low-degree ansatz for the quantum channel, i.e. when it can be expressed as a fixed-degree polynomial in terms of Pauli operators. We demonstrate how to perform tomography of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Marianna Crupi , J. Ignacio Cirac , Flavio Baccari

Finite-time Markovian channels, unlike their infinitesimal counterparts, do not form a convex set. As a particular instance of this observation, we consider the problem of mixing the three Pauli channels, conservatively assumed to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Vinayak Jagadish , R. Srikanth , Francesco Petruccione

We construct a practical method for finding optimal Gaussian probe states for the estimation of parameters encoded by Gaussian unitary channels. This method can be used for finding all optimal probe states, rather than focusing on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Dominik Šafránek , Ivette Fuentes