Inapproximability of Positive Semidefinite Permanents and Quantum State Tomography

11/04/2021
by   Alex Meiburg, et al.
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Quantum State Tomography is the task of estimating a quantum state, given many measurements in different bases. We discuss a few variants of what exactly “estimating a quantum state" means, including maximum likelihood estimation and computing a Bayesian average. We show that, when the measurements are fixed, this problem is NP-Hard to approximate within any constant factor. In the process, we find that it reduces to the problem of approximately computing the permanent of a Hermitian positive semidefinite (HPSD) matrix. This implies that HPSD permanents are also NP-Hard to approximate, resolving a standing question with applications in quantum information and BosonSampling.

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