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Mixed state tomography reduces to pure state tomography
Angelos Pelecanos, Jack Spilecki, Ewin Tang +1
A longstanding belief in quantum tomography is that estimating a mixed state is far harder than estimating a pure state. This is borne out in the mathematics, where mixed state alg…
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The debiased Keyl's algorithm: a new unbiased estimator for full state tomography
Angelos Pelecanos, Jack Spilecki, John Wright
In the problem of quantum state tomography, one is given copies of an unknown rank- mixed state and asked to produce an estimator of . In t…
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Optimal lower bounds for quantum state tomography
Thilo Scharnhorst, Jack Spilecki, John Wright
We show that copies are necessary to learn a rank mixed state up to error in trace distance. This matches…