Direct tomography of quantum states and processes via weak measurements of Pauli spin operators on an NMR quantum processor

Abstract

In this paper, we present an efficient weak measurement-based scheme for direct quantum state tomography (DQST) and direct quantum process tomography (DQPT), and experimentally implement it on an NMR ensemble quantum information processor without involving any projective measurements. We develop a generalized quantum circuit that enables us to directly measure selected elements of the density matrix and process matrix which characterize unknown quantum states and processes, respectively. This generalized quantum circuit uses the scalar J-coupling to control the interaction strength between the system qubits and the metre qubit. We experimentally implement these weak measurement-based DQST and DQPT protocols and use them to accurately characterize several two-qubit quantum states and single-qubit quantum processes. An extra qubit is used as a metre qubit to implement the DQST protocol, while for the DQPT protocol, two extra qubits (one as a metre qubit and the other as an ancilla qubit) are used.

10 pages, 5 figures

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