A comparative study of estimation methods in quantum tomography

01/23/2019
by   Anirudh Acharya, et al.
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As quantum tomography is becoming a key component of the quantum engineering toolbox, there is a need for a deeper understanding of the multitude of estimation methods available. Here we investigate and compare several such methods: maximum likelihood, least squares, generalised least squares, positive least squares, thresholded least squares and projected least squares. The common thread of the analysis is that each estimator projects the measurement data onto a parameter space with respect to a specific metric, thus allowing us to study the relationships between different estimators. The asymptotic behaviour of the least squares and the projected least squares estimators is studied in detail for the case of the covariant measurement and a family of states of varying ranks. This gives insight into the rank-dependent risk reduction for the projected estimator, and uncovers an interesting non-monotonic behaviour of the Bures risk. These asymptotic results complement recent non-asymptotic concentration bounds of GutaKahnKungTropp which point to strong optimality properties, and high computational efficiency of the projected linear estimators. To illustrate the theoretical methods we present results of an extensive simulation study. An app running the different estimators has been made available online.

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