Quantum System Identification

Daniel Burgarth and Kazuya Yuasa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080502 – Published 23 February 2012

Abstract

The aim of quantum system identification is to estimate the ingredients inside a black box, in which some quantum-mechanical unitary process takes place, by just looking at its input-output behavior. Here we establish a basic and general framework for quantum system identification, that allows us to classify how much knowledge about the quantum system is attainable, in principle, from a given experimental setup. We show that controllable closed quantum systems can be estimated up to unitary conjugation. Prior knowledge on some elements of the black box helps the system identification. We present an example in which a Bell measurement is more efficient to identify the system. When the topology of the system is known, the framework enables us to establish a general criterion for the estimability of the coupling constants in its Hamiltonian.

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  • Received 11 April 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.080502

© 2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Daniel Burgarth1 and Kazuya Yuasa2

  • 1Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth University, SY23 3BZ Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
  • 2Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan

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Vol. 108, Iss. 8 — 24 February 2012

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