Evolution prediction from tomography

DOI10.1007/S11128-017-1524-ZMaRDI QIDQ2412611zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jason Dominy, Lorenzo Campos Venuti, Alireza Shabani, Daniel A. Lidar

Publication date 23 October 2017

Published in Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0973

zbMATH Keywords

predictioncompletely positive mapsunitary evolutionquantum process tomography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator spaces and completely bounded maps (46L07) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45)

Abstract: Quantum process tomography provides a means of measuring the evolution operator for a system at a fixed measurement time $t$. The problem of using that tomographic snapshot to predict the evolution operator at other times is generally ill-posed since there are, in general, infinitely many distinct and compatible solutions. We describe the prediction, in some ``maximal ignorance sense, of the evolution of a quantum system based on knowledge only of the evolution operator for finitely many times $0<a{u}_1<dots<a{u}_M$ with $Mgeq1$. To resolve the ill-posedness problem, we construct this prediction as the result of an average over some unknown (and unknowable) variables. The resulting prediction provides a description of the observer's state of knowledge of the system's evolution at times away from the measurement times. Even if the original evolution is unitary, the predicted evolution is described by a non-unitary, completely positive map.

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