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Measurement connects the world of quantum phenomena to the world of classical events. It plays both a passive role, observing quantum systems, and an active one, preparing quantum states and controlling them. Surprisingly - in the light of the central status of measurement in quantum mechanics - there is no general recipe for designing a detector that measures a given observable. Compounding this, the characterization of existing detectors is typically based on partial calibrations or elaborate models. Thus, experimental specification (i.e. tomography) of a detector is of fundamental and practical importance. Here, we present the realization of quantum detector tomography: we identify the optimal positive-operator-valued measure describing the detector, with no ancillary assumptions. This result completes the triad, state, process, and detector tomography, required to fully specify an experiment. We characterize an avalanche photodiode and a photon number resolving detector capable of detecting up to eight photons. This creates a new set of tools for accurately detecting and preparing non-classical light.
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Recent efforts have applied quantum tomography techniques to the calibration and characterization of complex quantum detectors using minimal assumptions. In this work we provide detail and insight concerning the formalism, the experimental and theoretical challenges and the scope of these tomographical tools. Our focus is on the detection of photons with avalanche photodiodes and photon number resolving detectors and our approach is to fully characterize the quantum operators describing these detectors with a minimal set of well specified assumptions. The formalism is completely general and can be applied to a wide range of detectors
Quantum algorithms designed for noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices usually require repeatedly perform a large number of quantum measurements in estimating observable expectation values of a many-qubit quantum state. Exploiting the ideas of importance sampling, observable compatibility, and classical shadows of quantum states, different advanced quantum measurement schemes have been proposed to greatly reduce the large measurement cost. Yet, the underline cost reduction mechanisms seem distinct to each other, and how to systematically find the optimal scheme remains a critical theoretical challenge. Here, we address this challenge by firstly proposing a unified framework of quantum measurements, incorporating the advanced measurement methods as special cases. Our framework further allows us to introduce a general scheme -- overlapped grouping measurement, which simultaneously exploits the advantages of the existing methods. We show that an optimal measurement scheme corresponds to partitioning the observables into overlapped groups with each group consisting of compatible ones. We provide explicit grouping strategies and numerically verify its performance for different molecular Hamiltonians. Our numerical results show great improvements to the overall existing measurement schemes. Our work paves the way for efficient quantum measurement with near-term quantum devices.
Measurements play a crucial role in doing physics: Their results provide the basis on which we adopt or reject physical theories. In this note, we examine the effect of subjecting measurements themselves to our experience. We require that our contact with the world is empirically warranted. Therefore, we study theories that satisfy the following assumption: Interactions are accounted for so that they are empirically traceable, and observations necessarily go with such an interaction with the observed system. Examining, with regard to these assumptions, an abstract representation of measurements with tools from quantum logic leads us to contextual theories. Contextuality becomes a means to render interactions, thus also measurements, empirically tangible. The measurement becomes problematic---also beyond quantum mechanics---if one tries to commensurate the assumption of tangible interactions with the notion of a spectator theory, i.e., with the idea that measurement results are read off without effect. The problem, thus, presents itself as the collision of different epistemological stances with repercussions beyond quantum mechanics.
Measurement is integral to quantum information processing and communication; it is how information encoded in the state of a system is transformed into classical signals for further use. In quantum optics, measurements are typically destructive, so that the state is not available afterwards for further steps - crucial for sequential measurement schemes. The development of practical methods for non-destructive measurements on optical fields is therefore an important topic for future practical quantum information processing systems. Here we show how to measure the presence or absence of the vacuum in a quantum optical field without destroying the state, implementing the ideal projections onto the respective subspaces. This not only enables sequential measurements, useful for quantum communication, but it can also be adapted to create novel states of light via bare raising and lowering operators.
The entropy of a quantum system is a measure of its randomness, and has applications in measuring quantum entanglement. We study the problem of measuring the von Neumann entropy, $S(rho)$, and Renyi entropy, $S_alpha(rho)$ of an unknown mixed quantum state $rho$ in $d$ dimensions, given access to independent copies of $rho$. We provide an algorithm with copy complexity $O(d^{2/alpha})$ for estimating $S_alpha(rho)$ for $alpha<1$, and copy complexity $O(d^{2})$ for estimating $S(rho)$, and $S_alpha(rho)$ for non-integral $alpha>1$. These bounds are at least quadratic in $d$, which is the order dependence on the number of copies required for learning the entire state $rho$. For integral $alpha>1$, on the other hand, we provide an algorithm for estimating $S_alpha(rho)$ with a sub-quadratic copy complexity of $O(d^{2-2/alpha})$. We characterize the copy complexity for integral $alpha>1$ up to constant factors by providing matching lower bounds. For other values of $alpha$, and the von Neumann entropy, we show lower bounds on the algorithm that achieves the upper bound. This shows that we either need new algorithms for better upper bounds, or better lower bounds to tighten the results. For non-integral $alpha$, and the von Neumann entropy, we consider the well known Empirical Young Diagram (EYD) algorithm, which is the analogue of empirical plug-in estimator in classical distribution estimation. As a corollary, we strengthen a lower bound on the copy complexity of the EYD algorithm for learning the maximally mixed state by showing that the lower bound holds with exponential probability (which was previously known to hold with a constant probability). For integral $alpha>1$, we provide new concentration results of certain polynomials that arise in Kerov algebra of Young diagrams.
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