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View SchemaProcess reconstruction from incomplete and/or inconsistent data
| Authors | Mario Ziman, Martin Plesch, Vladimir Buzek |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0412129 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412129 |
| DOI | 10.1140/epjd/e2005-00020-2 |
| Journal | The European Physical Journal D 32, Vol.10,215 - 222 (2005) |
Abstract
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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