Rocchetto, A;
Aaronson, S;
Severini, S;
Carvacho, G;
Poderini, D;
Agresti, I;
Bentivegna, M;
(2019)
Experimental learning of quantum states.
Science Advances
, 5
(3)
, Article eaau1946. 10.1126/sciadv.aau1946.
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Abstract
The number of parameters describing a quantum state is well known to grow exponentially with the number of particles. This scaling limits our ability to characterize and simulate the evolution of arbitrary states to systems, with no more than a few qubits. However, from a computational learning theory perspective, it can be shown that quantum states can be approximately learned using a number of measurements growing linearly with the number of qubits. Here, we experimentally demonstrate this linear scaling in optical systems with up to 6 qubits. Our results highlight the power of the computational learning theory to investigate quantum information, provide the first experimental demonstration that quantum states can be "probably approximately learned" with access to a number of copies of the state that scales linearly with the number of qubits, and pave the way to probing quantum states at new, larger scales.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Experimental learning of quantum states |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1126/sciadv.aau1946 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau1946 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2019 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073024 |
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