Estimating many properties of a quantum state via quantum reservoir processing

Abstract

Estimating properties of a quantum state is an indispensable task in various applications of quantum information processing. To predict properties in the postprocessing stage, it is inherent to first perceive the quantum state with a measurement protocol and store the information acquired. In this paper, we propose a general framework for constructing classical approximations of arbitrary quantum states with quantum reservoirs. A key advantage of our method is that only a single local measurement setting is required for estimating arbitrary properties, while most of the previous methods need an exponentially increasing number of measurement settings. To estimate M properties simultaneously, the size of the classical approximation scales as lnM. Moreover, this estimation scheme is extendable to higher-dimensional systems and hybrid systems with nonidentical local dimensions, which makes it exceptionally generic. We support our theoretical findings with extensive numerical simulations.