Optimal Large-Scale Quantum State Tomography with Pauli Measurements
Tony Cai, Dongyu Kim, Yazhen Wang, Ming Yuan, and Harrison Zhou
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Abstract:
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 high-dimensional density matrices based on a relatively small number of Pauli measurements. In particular, under appropriate notion of sparsity, we establish the minimax optimal rates of convergence for estimation of the density matrix under both the spectral and Frobenius norm losses; and show how these rates can be achieved by a common thresholding approach. Numerical performance of the proposed estimator is also investigated.
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