中国物理B ›› 2018, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (10): 100306-100306.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/27/10/100306

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Two-qubit pure state tomography by five product orthonormal bases

Yu Wang(王宇), Yun Shang(尚云)   

  1. 1 Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3 National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    4 MDIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 收稿日期:2018-02-11 修回日期:2018-06-17 出版日期:2018-10-05 发布日期:2018-10-05
  • 通讯作者: Yun Shang E-mail:shangyun602@163.com
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported partially by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFB1000902), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61472412), and the Program for Creative Research Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61621003).

Two-qubit pure state tomography by five product orthonormal bases

Yu Wang(王宇)1,2, Yun Shang(尚云)1,2,3,4   

  1. 1 Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3 National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    4 MDIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2018-02-11 Revised:2018-06-17 Online:2018-10-05 Published:2018-10-05
  • Contact: Yun Shang E-mail:shangyun602@163.com
  • Supported by:

    Project supported partially by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFB1000902), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61472412), and the Program for Creative Research Group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61621003).

摘要:

In this paper, we focus on two-qubit pure state tomography. For an arbitrary unknown two-qubit pure state, separable or entangled, it has been found that the measurement probabilities of 16 projections onto the tensor products of Pauli eigenstates are enough to uniquely determine the state. Moreover, these corresponding product states are arranged into five orthonormal bases. We design five quantum circuits, which are decomposed into the common gates in universal quantum computation, to simulate the five projective measurements onto these bases. At the end of each circuit, we measure each qubit with the projective measurement {|0><0|,|1><1|}. Then, we consider the open problem whether three orthonormal bases are enough to distinguish all two-qubit pure states. A necessary condition is given. Suppose that there are three orthonormal bases B1,B2,B3. Denote the unitary transition matrices from B1 to B2,B3 as U1 and U2. All 32 elements of matrices U1 and U2 should not be zero. If not, these three bases cannot distinguish all two-qubit pure states.

关键词: two-qubit pure state, tomography, projective measurement, quantum circuit

Abstract:

In this paper, we focus on two-qubit pure state tomography. For an arbitrary unknown two-qubit pure state, separable or entangled, it has been found that the measurement probabilities of 16 projections onto the tensor products of Pauli eigenstates are enough to uniquely determine the state. Moreover, these corresponding product states are arranged into five orthonormal bases. We design five quantum circuits, which are decomposed into the common gates in universal quantum computation, to simulate the five projective measurements onto these bases. At the end of each circuit, we measure each qubit with the projective measurement {|0><0|,|1><1|}. Then, we consider the open problem whether three orthonormal bases are enough to distinguish all two-qubit pure states. A necessary condition is given. Suppose that there are three orthonormal bases B1,B2,B3. Denote the unitary transition matrices from B1 to B2,B3 as U1 and U2. All 32 elements of matrices U1 and U2 should not be zero. If not, these three bases cannot distinguish all two-qubit pure states.

Key words: two-qubit pure state, tomography, projective measurement, quantum circuit

中图分类号:  (Quantum information)

  • 03.67.-a
03.65.Wj (State reconstruction, quantum tomography) 03.65.Aa (Quantum systems with finite Hilbert space)