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View SchemaAccuracy of quantum-state estimation utilizing Akaike's information criterion
| Authors | Koji Usami, Yoshihiro Nambu, Yoshiyuki Tsuda, Keiji Matsumoto, Kazuo Nakamura |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0306083 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306083 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.022314 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 68, 022314 (2003) |
Abstract
We report our theoretical and experimental investigations into errors in quantum state estimation, putting a special emphasis on their asymptotic behavior. Tomographic measurements and maximum likelihood estimation are used for estimating several kinds of identically prepared quantum states (bi-photon polarization states) produced via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Excess errors in the estimation procedures are eliminated by introducing a new estimation strategy utilizing Akaike's information criterion. We make a quantitative comparision between the errors of the experimentally estimated states and their asymptotic lower bounds, which are derived from the Cram\'{e}r-Rao inequality. Our results reveal influence of entanglement on the errors in the estimation. An alternative measurement strategy employing inseparable measurements is also discussed, and its performance is numerically explored.
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