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Accuracy of quantum-state estimation utilizing Akaike's information criterion

Koji Usami, Yoshihiro Nambu, Yoshiyuki Tsuda, Keiji Matsumoto, Kazuo Nakamura

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.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0306083
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
14 pages, 8 figures, extended version of quant-ph/0209074, to appear in Phys. Rev. A
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.022314
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0306083
journal_ref:
Phys. Rev. A 68, 022314 (2003)
created:
2003-06-11

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