Experimental neural network enhanced quantum tomography

Quantum tomography is currently ubiquitous for testing any implementation of a quantum information processing device. Various sophisticated procedures for state and process reconstruction from measured data are well developed and benefit from precise knowledge of the model describing state-preparati...

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Published in:npj quantum information 2020-02, Vol.6 (1), Article 20
Main Authors: Palmieri, Adriano Macarone, Kovlakov, Egor, Bianchi, Federico, Yudin, Dmitry, Straupe, Stanislav, Biamonte, Jacob D., Kulik, Sergei
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Language:English
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Classical and Quantum Gravitation
Information processing
Learning algorithms
Machine learning
Neural networks
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Computing
Quantum Field Theories
Quantum Information Technology
Quantum Physics
Relativity Theory
Spintronics
String Theory
Tomography
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Summary:Quantum tomography is currently ubiquitous for testing any implementation of a quantum information processing device. Various sophisticated procedures for state and process reconstruction from measured data are well developed and benefit from precise knowledge of the model describing state-preparation-and-measurement (SPAM) apparatus. However, physical models suffer from intrinsic limitations as actual measurement operators and trial states cannot be known precisely. This scenario inevitably leads to SPAM errors degrading reconstruction performance. Here we develop a framework based on machine learning which generally applies to both the tomography and SPAM mitigation problem. We experimentally implement our method. We trained a supervised neural network to filter the experimental data and hence uncovered salient patterns that characterize the measurement probabilities for the original state and the ideal experimental apparatus free from SPAM errors. We compared the neural network state reconstruction protocol with a protocol treating SPAM errors by process tomography, as well as to an SPAM-agnostic protocol with idealized measurements. The average reconstruction fidelity is shown to be enhanced by 10% and 27%, respectively. The presented methods apply to the vast range of quantum experiments which rely on tomography.
ISSN:2056-6387
2056-6387
DOI:10.1038/s41534-020-0248-6