Macroscopic instructions vs microscopic operations in quantum circuits

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2019.126131MaRDI QIDQ2212905zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 27 November 2020

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08173

zbMATH Keywords

quantum tomographynon-markovianity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: In many experiments on microscopic quantum systems, it is implicitly assumed that when a macroscopic procedure or "instruction" is repeated many times -- perhaps in different contexts -- each application results in the same microscopic quantum operation. But in practice, the microscopic effect of a single macroscopic instruction can easily depend on its context. If undetected, this can lead to unexpected behavior and unreliable results. Here, we design and analyze several tests to detect context-dependence. They are based on invariants of matrix products, and while they can be as data intensive as quantum process tomography, they do not require tomographic reconstruction, and are insensitive to imperfect knowledge about the experiments. We also construct a measure of how unitary (reversible) an operation is, and show how to estimate the volume of physical states accessible by a quantum operation.

Recommendations

• Macroscopic realizations of quantum logics
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1540526
• Simulating quantum computation on a macroscopic model
• A macroscopic device for quantum computation
• Complexity of reversible circuits and their quantum implementations
• Quantum State Estimation
• Macroscopic approach to N-qudit systems
• Synthesis of quantum circuits vs. synthesis of classical reversible circuits
• Quantum gates and circuits
• Quantum computation and quantum operations

Cites work

• A simple formula for the average gate fidelity of a quantum dynamical operation
• An analysis of completely-positive trace-preserving maps on \({\mathcal M}_{2}\)
• Completely positive dynamical semigroups of \(N\)-level systems
• Completely positive linear maps on complex matrices
• Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate
• Dividing quantum channels
• Estimating the coherence of noise
• General teleportation channel, singlet fraction, and quasidistillation
• Linear transformations which preserve trace and positive semidefiniteness of operators
• On the generators of quantum dynamical semigroups
• Quantum computation and quantum information. 10th anniversary edition
• When quantum tomography goes wrong: drift of quantum sources and other errors

This page was built for publication: Macroscopic instructions vs microscopic operations in quantum circuits

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2212905)