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In this paper, we propose an iterative algorithm using polar decomposition to approximate a channel characterized by a single unitary matrix based on input-output quantum state pairs. In limited data, we state and prove that the optimal…

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The temporal evolution of a quantum system can be characterized by quantum process tomography, a complex task that consumes a number of physical resources scaling exponentially with the number of subsystems. An alternative approach to the…

We study the problem of approximating a quantum channel by one with as few Kraus operators as possible (in the sense that, for any input state, the output states of the two channels should be close to one another). Our main result is that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Cécilia Lancien , Andreas Winter

We propose and experimentally demonstrate an efficient framework for the quantum simulation of quantum channels in NMR. Our approach relies on the suitable decomposition of non-unitary operators in a linear combination of $d$ unitary ones,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Tao Xin , Shi-Jie Wei , Julen S. Pedernales , Enrique Solano , Gui-Lu Long

The characterization of quantum processes is a key tool in quantum information processing tasks for several reasons: on one hand, it allows to acknowledge errors in the implementations of quantum algorithms; on the other, it allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Ignacio Perito , Augusto Roncaglia , Ariel Bendersky

We review single-qubit quantum process tomography for trace-preserving and nontrace-preserving processes, and derive explicit forms of the general constraints for fitting experimental data. These forms provide additional insight into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 Ramesh Bhandari , Nicholas A. Peters

Quantum optics plays a crucial role in developing quantum computers on different platforms. In photonics, precise control over light's degrees of freedom, including discrete variables (polarization, photon number, orbital angular momentum)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 J. S. Araujo , K. Khan , A. S. Coelho

Network tomography refers to the use of inference techniques for inferring internal network states from end-to-end probes. Quantum probes, implemented by sending blocks of $n$ coherent-state pulses augmented with continuous-variable (CV)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yufei Zheng , Zihao Gong , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

Quantum Process Tomography (QPT) methods aim at identifying, i.e. estimating, a quantum process. QPT is a major quantum information processing tool, since it especially allows one to experimentally characterize the actual behavior of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Yannick Deville , Alain Deville

Dynamics of many-qubit systems, that may correspond to computational processing with quantum systems, can be efficiently and generally approximated by a sequence of two- and single-qubit gates. In practical applications, however, a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Joonwoo Bae , Tanmay Singal

We utilize a discrete (sequential) measurement protocol to investigate quantum process tomography of a single two-level quantum system, with an unknown initial state, undergoing Rabi oscillations. The ignorance of the dynamical parameters…

We show with explicit formulas that one can completely identify an unknown quantum process with only one weakly entangled state; and identify a quantum optical Gaussian process with either one two-mode squeezed state or a few different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Xiang-Bin Wang , J. -Z. Hu , Z. -W. Yu , Franco Nori

A completely depolarising quantum channel always outputs a fully mixed state and thus cannot transmit any information. In a recent Letter [D. Ebler et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 120502 (2018)], it was however shown that if a quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Alastair A. Abbott , Julian Wechs , Dominic Horsman , Mehdi Mhalla , Cyril Branciard

We study the nature of the information preserved by a quantum channel via the observables which exist in its image (in the Heisenberg picture), and can therefore be simulated on the receiver's side. The sharp observables preserved by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Cédric Bény

Based on recently introduced efficient quantum state tomography schemes, we propose a scalable method for the tomography of unitary processes and the reconstruction of one-dimensional local Hamiltonians. As opposed to the exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 M. Holzäpfel , T. Baumgratz , M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

Any observable with finite eigenvalue spectrum can be measured using a multiport apparatus realizing an appropriate unitary transformation and an array of detector instruments, where each detector operates as an indicator of one possible…

General Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Michael Zirpel

We introduce two methods for quantum process and detector tomography. In the quantum process tomography method, we develop an analytical procedure for projecting the linear inversion estimation of a quantum channel onto the set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Júlia Barberà-Rodríguez , Leonardo Zambrano , Antonio Acín , Donato Farina

A new model of quantum computation is considered, in which the connections between gates are programmed by the state of a quantum register. This new model of computation is shown to be more powerful than the usual quantum computation, e. g.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 Timoteo Colnaghi , Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Paolo Perinotti , Stefano Facchini

The understanding of open quantum systems is crucial for the development of quantum technologies. Of particular relevance is the characterisation of divisible quantum dynamics, seen as a generalisation of Markovian processes to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Ranieri Nery , Nadja K. Bernardes , Daniel Cavalcanti , Rafael Chaves , Cristhiano Duarte

A programmable quantum processor uses the states of a program register to specify one element of a set of quantum channels which is applied to an input register. It is well-known that such a device is impossible with a finite-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Martina Gschwendtner , Andreas Bluhm , Andreas Winter