Optimal qudit operator bases for efficient characterization of quantum gates

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/38/385305MaRDI QIDQ2922393zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel M. Reich, Giulia Gualdi, Christiane P. Koch

Publication date 10 October 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7154

zbMATH Keywords

quantum process tomographyquantum protocolsqudit operations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum computation (81P68) Cryptography (94A60)

Abstract: For certain quantum operations acting on qubits, there exist bases of measurement operators such that estimating the average fidelity becomes efficient. The number of experiments required is then independent of system size and the classical computational resources scale only polynomially in the number of qubits. Here we address the question of how to optimally choose the measurement basis for efficient gate characterization when replacing two-level qubits by $d$-level qudits. We define optimality in terms of the maximal number of unitaries that can be efficiently characterized. Our definition allows us to construct the optimal measurement basis in terms of their spectra and eigenbases: The measurement operators are unitaries with $d$-nary spectrum and partition into $d+1$ Abelian groups whose eigenbases are mutually unbiased.

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