Published February 18, 2013
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When quantum tomography goes wrong: drift of quantum sources and other errors
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- van Enk, S. J.
- Blume-Kohout, Robin
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Abstract
The principle behind quantum tomography is that a large set of observations—many samples from a 'quorum' of distinct observables—can all be explained satisfactorily as measurements on a single underlying quantum state or process. Unfortunately, this principle may not hold. When it fails, any standard tomographic estimate should be viewed skeptically. Here we propose a simple way to test for this kind of failure using the Akaike information criterion. We point out that the application of this criterion in a quantum context, while still powerful, is not as straightforward as it is in classical physics. This is especially the case when future observables differ from those constituting the quorum.
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© 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Issue 2 (February 2013); Received 31 May 2012; Published 18 February 2013. This work was supported by NSF grant no. PHY-1004219. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the US Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration under contract no. DE-AC04-94AL85000. Note added in proof: Upon completion of this paper [18] appeared, which is similar in spirit to our paper, but which uses χ2 tests to detect errors in tomography. It points out, too, the problem with pure-state assignments for those tests. After submission of the proofs we also became aware of a very relevant article [19].Attached Files
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- PHY-1004219
- Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration
- DE-AC04-94AL85000
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- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter