Sample-optimal classical shadows for pure states

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Sample-optimal classical shadows for pure states
المؤلفون: Grier, Daniel, Pashayan, Hakop, Schaeffer, Luke
المصدر: Quantum 8, 1373 (2024)
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Computer Science
Mathematics
Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantum Physics, Computer Science - Information Theory, Computer Science - Machine Learning
الوصف: We consider the classical shadows task for pure states in the setting of both joint and independent measurements. The task is to measure few copies of an unknown pure state $\rho$ in order to learn a classical description which suffices to later estimate expectation values of observables. Specifically, the goal is to approximate $\mathrm{Tr}(O \rho)$ for any Hermitian observable $O$ to within additive error $\epsilon$ provided $\mathrm{Tr}(O^2)\leq B$ and $\lVert O \rVert = 1$. Our main result applies to the joint measurement setting, where we show $\tilde{\Theta}(\sqrt{B}\epsilon^{-1} + \epsilon^{-2})$ samples of $\rho$ are necessary and sufficient to succeed with high probability. The upper bound is a quadratic improvement on the previous best sample complexity known for this problem. For the lower bound, we see that the bottleneck is not how fast we can learn the state but rather how much any classical description of $\rho$ can be compressed for observable estimation. In the independent measurement setting, we show that $\mathcal O(\sqrt{Bd} \epsilon^{-1} + \epsilon^{-2})$ samples suffice. Notably, this implies that the random Clifford measurements algorithm of Huang, Kueng, and Preskill, which is sample-optimal for mixed states, is not optimal for pure states. Interestingly, our result also uses the same random Clifford measurements but employs a different estimator.
Comment: 34 pages; v2 - journal version
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.22331/q-2024-06-17-1373
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11810
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2211.11810
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.22331/q-2024-06-17-1373