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Finding the least measurement settings to determine an arbitrary pure state has been long known as the Pauli problem. In the fixed measurement scheme four orthonormal bases are required even though there are far less parameters in a pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Sun Liang-Liang , Mao Yingqiu , Xiong Fei-Lei , Yu Sixia , Chen Zeng-Bing

Extracting information from quantum devices has long been a crucial problem in the field of quantum mechanics. By performing elaborate measurements, quantum state tomography, an important and fundamental tool in quantum science and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Yu Wang , Keren Li

Pauli Measurements are the most important measurements in both theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum information science. In this paper, we explore the power of Pauli measurements in the state tomography related problems. Firstly,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Nengkun Yu

We provide the first non-trivial lower bounds for single-qubit tomography algorithms and show that at least ${\Omega}\left(\frac{10^N}{\sqrt{N} \varepsilon^2}\right)$ copies are required to learn an $N$-qubit state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Jayadev Acharya , Abhilash Dharmavarapu , Yuhan Liu , Nengkun Yu

We give an algorithm for pure state tomography with near-optimal copy and time complexity using only single-qubit measurements. Specifically, given $\widetilde{O}(2^n/\epsilon)$ copies of an unknown $n$-qubit pure state $|\psi\rangle$, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Sabee Grewal , Meghal Gupta , William He , Aniruddha Sen , Mihir Singhal

Statistical verification of a quantum state aims to certify whether a given unknown state is close to the target state with confidence. So far, sample-optimal verification protocols based on local measurements have been found only for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Ninnat Dangniam , Yun-Guang Han , Huangjun Zhu

In quantum information transformation and quantum computation, the most critical issues are security and accuracy. These features, therefore, stimulate research on quantum state characterization. A characterization tool, Quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Xudan Chai , Teng Ma , Qihao Guo , Zhangqi Yin , Hao Wu , Qing Zhao

Quantum state tomography is the experimental procedure of determining an unknown state. It is not only essential for the verification of resources and processors of quantum information but is also important in its own right with regard to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Mahn-Soo Choi

Quantum state tomography and other measures of the global properties of a quantum state are indispensable tools in understanding many body physics through quantum simulators. Unfortunately, the number of experimental measurements of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Yariv Yanay , Charles Tahan

Quantum state tomography is a fundamental problem in quantum computing. Given $n$ copies of an unknown $N$-qubit state $\rho \in \mathbb{C}^{d \times d},d=2^N$, the goal is to learn the state up to an accuracy $\epsilon$ in trace distance,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Jayadev Acharya , Abhilash Dharmavarapu , Yuhan Liu , Nengkun Yu

One of the fundamental questions in quantum information theory is to find how many measurement bases are required to obtain the full information of a quantum state. While a minimum of four measurement bases is typically required to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Tianfeng Feng , Tianqi Xiao , Yu Wang , Shengshi Pang , Farhan Hanif , Xiaoqi Zhou , Qi Zhao , M. S. Kim , Jinzhao Sun

We develop a practical quantum tomography protocol and implement measurements of pure states of ququarts realized with polarization states of photon pairs (biphotons). The method is based on an optimal choice of the measuring scheme's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-17 E. V. Moreva , Yu. I. Bogdanov , A. K. Gavrichenko , S. P. Kulik , I. Tikhonov

We present a three-qubit quantum state tomography scheme requiring a set of 17 measurement settings, significantly reducing the experimental overhead compared to the conventional 63 Pauli measurement settings. Using IBM's 127-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 H. Talath , B. P. Govindaraja , B. G. Divyamani , Akshata Shenoy H. , A. R. Usha Devi , Sudha

Quantum state tomography (QST) aims at estimating a quantum state from averaged quantum measurements made on copies of the state. Most quantum algorithms rely on QST at some point and it is a well explored topic in the literature, mostly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 François Verdeil , Yannick Deville

The deployment of intermediate- and large-scale quantum devices necessitates the development of efficient full state tomographical techniques for quantum benchmarks. Here, we introduce a matrix filling-based method for tomography of pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Ahmad Farooq , Junaid ur Rehman , Hyundong Shin

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 introduce a new method to estimate unknown pure $d$-dimensional quantum states using the probability distributions associated with only three measurement bases. Measurement results of $2d$ projectors are employed to generate a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 L. Zambrano , L. Pereira , D. Martínez , G. Cañas , G. Lima , A. Delgado

Measuring the state of quantum computers is a highly non-trivial task, with implications for virtually all quantum algorithms. We propose a novel scheme where identical copies of a quantum state are measured jointly so that all Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Rick P. A. Simon , Zheng Shi , Charlie Nation , Andrew Jena , Luca Dellantonio

We revisit the problem of Pauli shadow tomography: given copies of an unknown $n$-qubit quantum state $\rho$, estimate $\text{tr}(P\rho)$ for some set of Pauli operators $P$ to within additive error $\epsilon$. This has been a popular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Sitan Chen , Weiyuan Gong , Qi Ye

For any finite dimensional Hilbert space, we construct explicitly five orthonormal bases such that the corresponding measurements allow for efficient tomography of an arbitrary pure quantum state. This means that such measurements can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Claudio Carmeli , Teiko Heinosaari , Michael Kech , Jussi Schultz , Alessandro Toigo
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