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Error probability analysis in quantum tomography: a tool for evaluating experiments
We expand the scope of the statistical notion of error probability, i.e., how
often large deviations are observed in an experiment, in order to make it
directly applicable to quantum tomography. We verify that the error probability
can decrease at most exponentially in the number of trials, derive the explicit
rate that bounds this decrease, and show that a maximum likelihood estimator
achieves this bound. We also show that the statistical notion of
identifiability coincides with the tomographic notion of informational
completeness. Our result implies that two quantum tomographic apparatuses that
have the same risk function, (e.g. variance), can have different error
probability, and we give an example in one qubit state tomography. Thus by
combining these two approaches we can evaluate, in a reconstruction independent
way, the performance of such experiments more discerningly.Comment: 14pages, 2 figures (an analysis of an example is added, and the proof
of Lemma 2 is corrected
Quantum computation over the butterfly network
In order to investigate distributed quantum computation under restricted
network resources, we introduce a quantum computation task over the butterfly
network where both quantum and classical communications are limited. We
consider deterministically performing a two-qubit global unitary operation on
two unknown inputs given at different nodes, with outputs at two distinct
nodes. By using a particular resource setting introduced by M. Hayashi [Phys.
Rev. A \textbf{76}, 040301(R) (2007)], which is capable of performing a swap
operation by adding two maximally entangled qubits (ebits) between the two
input nodes, we show that unitary operations can be performed without adding
any entanglement resource, if and only if the unitary operations are locally
unitary equivalent to controlled unitary operations. Our protocol is optimal in
the sense that the unitary operations cannot be implemented if we relax the
specifications of any of the channels. We also construct protocols for
performing controlled traceless unitary operations with a 1-ebit resource and
for performing global Clifford operations with a 2-ebit resource.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures, the second version has been significantly
expanded, and author ordering changed and the third version is a minor
revision of the previous versio
Classification of delocalization power of global unitary operations in terms of LOCC one-piece relocalization
We study how two pieces of localized quantum information can be delocalized
across a composite Hilbert space when a global unitary operation is applied. We
classify the delocalization power of global unitary operations on quantum
information by investigating the possibility of relocalizing one piece of the
quantum information without using any global quantum resource. We show that
one-piece relocalization is possible if and only if the global unitary
operation is local unitary equivalent of a controlled-unitary operation. The
delocalization power turns out to reveal different aspect of the non-local
properties of global unitary operations characterized by their entangling
power
Phase-random states: ensembles of states with fixed amplitudes and uniformly distributed phases in a fixed basis
Motivated by studies of typical properties of quantum states in statistical
mechanics, we introduce phase-random states, an ensemble of pure states with
fixed amplitudes and uniformly distributed phases in a fixed basis. We first
show that canonical states typically appear in subsystems of phase-random
states. We then investigate the simulatability of phase-random states, which is
directly related to that of time evolution in closed systems, by studying their
entanglement properties. We find that starting from a separable state, time
evolutions under Hamiltonians composed of only separable eigenstates generate
extremely high entanglement and are difficult to simulate with matrix product
states. We also show that random quantum circuits consisting of only two-qubit
diagonal unitaries can generate an ensemble with the same average entanglement
as phase-random states.Comment: Revised, 12 pages, 4 figur
Frequency noise and intensity noise of next-generation gravitational-wave detectors with RF/DC readout schemes
The sensitivity of next-generation gravitational-wave detectors such as
Advanced LIGO and LCGT should be limited mostly by quantum noise with an
expected technical progress to reduce seismic noise and thermal noise. Those
detectors will employ the optical configuration of resonant-sideband-extraction
that can be realized with a signal-recycling mirror added to the Fabry-Perot
Michelson interferometer. While this configuration can reduce quantum noise of
the detector, it can possibly increase laser frequency noise and intensity
noise. The analysis of laser noise in the interferometer with the conventional
configuration has been done in several papers, and we shall extend the analysis
to the resonant-sideband-extraction configuration with the radiation pressure
effect included. We shall also refer to laser noise in the case we employ the
so-called DC readout scheme.Comment: An error in Fig. 10 in the published version in PRD has been
corrected in this version; an erratum has been submitted to PRD. After
correction, this figure reflects a significant difference in the ways RF and
DC readout schemes are susceptible to laser noise. In addition, the levels of
mirror loss imbalances and input laser amplitude noise have also been updated
to be more realistic for Advanced LIG
Effect of nonnegativity on estimation errors in one-qubit state tomography with finite data
We analyze the behavior of estimation errors evaluated by two loss functions,
the Hilbert-Schmidt distance and infidelity, in one-qubit state tomography with
finite data. We show numerically that there can be a large gap between the
estimation errors and those predicted by an asymptotic analysis. The origin of
this discrepancy is the existence of the boundary in the state space imposed by
the requirement that density matrices be nonnegative (positive semidefinite).
We derive an explicit form of a function reproducing the behavior of the
estimation errors with high accuracy by introducing two approximations: a
Gaussian approximation of the multinomial distributions of outcomes, and
linearizing the boundary. This function gives us an intuition for the behavior
of the expected losses for finite data sets. We show that this function can be
used to determine the amount of data necessary for the estimation to be treated
reliably with the asymptotic theory. We give an explicit expression for this
amount, which exhibits strong sensitivity to the true quantum state as well as
the choice of measurement.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, One figure (FIG. 1) is added to the previous
version, and some typos are correcte
The chain rule implies Tsirelson's bound: an approach from generalized mutual information
In order to analyze an information theoretical derivation of Tsirelson's
bound based on information causality, we introduce a generalized mutual
information (GMI), defined as the optimal coding rate of a channel with
classical inputs and general probabilistic outputs. In the case where the
outputs are quantum, the GMI coincides with the quantum mutual information. In
general, the GMI does not necessarily satisfy the chain rule. We prove that
Tsirelson's bound can be derived by imposing the chain rule on the GMI. We
formulate a principle, which we call the no-supersignalling condition, which
states that the assistance of nonlocal correlations does not increase the
capability of classical communication. We prove that this condition is
equivalent to the no-signalling condition. As a result, we show that
Tsirelson's bound is implied by the nonpositivity of the quantitative
difference between information causality and no-supersignalling.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures, Added Section 2 and Appendix B, result
unchanged, Added reference
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