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Process reconstruction from incomplete and/or inconsistent data

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ZIMAN Mário PLESCH Martin BUŽEK Vladimír

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source The European Physical Journal D
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Faculty of Informatics

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Field Theoretical physics
Keywords quantum process reconstruction
Description We analyze how an action of a qubit channel (map) can be estimated from the measured data that are incomplete or even inconsistent. That is, we consider situations when measurement statistics is insufficient to determine consistent probability distributions. As a consequence either the estimation (reconstruction) of the channel completely fails or it results in an unphysical channel (i.e., the corresponding map is not completely positive). We present a regularization procedure that allows us to derive physically reasonable estimates (approximations) of quantum channels. We illustrate our procedure on specific examples and we show that the procedure can be also used for a derivation of optimal approximations of operations that are forbidden by the laws of quantum mechanics (e.g., the universal NOT gate).
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