



01775nas a2200229   4500008004100000245003900041210003900080260001500119300000800134490000600142520116900148100001901317700002301336700002401359700001701383700002601400700001901426700002901445700001601474700001801490856003701508       2010                        eng d00aEfficient quantum state tomography0 aEfficient quantum state tomography  c2010/12/21  a1490 v13 a  Quantum state tomography, the ability to deduce the state of a quantum system
from measured data, is the gold standard for verification and benchmarking of
quantum devices. It has been realized in systems with few components, but for
larger systems it becomes infeasible because the number of quantum measurements
and the amount of computation required to process them grows exponentially in
the system size. Here we show that we can do exponentially better than direct
state tomography for a wide range of quantum states, in particular those that
are well approximated by a matrix product state ansatz. We present two schemes
for tomography in 1-D quantum systems and touch on generalizations. One scheme
requires unitary operations on a constant number of subsystems, while the other
requires only local measurements together with more elaborate post-processing.
Both schemes rely only on a linear number of experimental operations and
classical postprocessing that is polynomial in the system size. A further
strength of the methods is that the accuracy of the reconstructed states can be
rigorously certified without any a priori assumptions.
1 aCramer, Marcus1 aPlenio, Martin, B.1 aFlammia, Steven, T.1 aGross, David1 aBartlett, Stephen, D.1 aSomma, Rolando1 aLandon-Cardinal, Olivier1 aLiu, Yi-Kai1 aPoulin, David  uhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4366v1