Quantum motional state tomography with nonquadratic potentials and neural networks

Abstract

We propose to use the complex quantum dynamics of a massive particle in a nonquadratic potential to reconstruct an initial unknown motional quantum state. We theoretically show that the reconstruction can be efficiently done by measuring the mean value and the variance of the position quantum operator at different instances of time in a quartic potential. We train a neural network to successfully solve this hard regression problem. We discuss the experimental feasibility of the method by analyzing the impact of decoherence and uncertainties in the potential.