Multiparameter transmission estimation at the quantum Cramér-Rao limit on a cloud quantum computer
arXiv:2208.00011 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aca21c
Abstract
Estimating transmission or loss is at the heart of spectroscopy. To achieve the ultimate quantum resolution limit, one must use probe states with definite photon number and detectors capable of distinguishing the number of photons impinging thereon. In practice, one can outperform classical limits using two-mode squeezed light, which can be used to herald definite-photon-number probes, but the heralding is not guaranteed to produce the desired probes when there is loss in the heralding arm or its detector is imperfect. We show that this paradigm can be used to simultaneously measure distinct loss parameters in both modes of the squeezed light, with attainable quantum advantages. We demonstrate this protocol on Xanadu's X8 chip, accessed via the cloud, building photon-number probability distributions from shots and performing maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) on these distributions independent times. Because pump light may be lost before the squeezing occurs, we also simultaneously estimate the actual input power, using the theory of nuisance parameters. MLE converges to estimate the transmission amplitudes in X8's eight modes to be 0.39202(6), 0.30706(8), 0.36937(6), 0.28730(9), 0.38206(6), 0.30441(8), 0.37229(6), and 0.28621(8) and the squeezing parameters, which are proxies for effective input coherent-state amplitudes, their losses, and their nonlinear interaction times, to be 1.3000(2), 1.3238(3), 1.2666(2), and 1.3425(3); all of these uncertainties are within a factor of two of the quantum Cramér-Rao bound. This study provides crucial insight into the intersection of quantum multiparameter estimation theory, MLE convergence, and the characterization and performance of real quantum devices.
arXiv comment22 pages including 3 appendices and 30 figures. Comments most welcome
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