We study quantum process tomography given the prior information that the map
is a unitary or close to a unitary process. We show that a unitary map on a
$d$-level system is completely characterized by a minimal set of $d^2{+}d$
elements associated with a collection of POVMs, in contrast to the $d^4{-}d^2$
elements required for a general completely positive trace-preserving map. To
achieve this lower bound, one must probe the map with a particular set of $d$
pure states. We further compare the performance of different compressed sensing
algorithms used to reconstruct a near-unitary process from such data. We find
that when we have accurate prior information, an appropriate compressed sensing
method reduces the required data needed for high-fidelity estimation, and
different estimators applied to the same data are sensitive to different types
of noise. Compressed sensing techniques can therefore be used both as
indicators of error models and to validate the use of the prior assumptions.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
In this work we introduce an open source suite of quantum application-oriented performance benchmarks that is designed to measure the effectiveness of quantum computing hardware at executing quantum applications. These benchmarks probe a quantum computer's performance on various algorithms and small applications as the problem size is varied, by mapping out the fidelity of the results as a function of circuit width and depth using the framework of volumetric benchmarking. In addition to estimating the fidelity of results generated by quantum execution, the suite is designed to benchmark certain aspects of the execution pipeline in order to provide end-users with a practical measure of both the quality of and the time to solution. Our methodology is constructed to anticipate advances in quantum computing hardware that are likely to emerge in the next five years. This benchmarking suite is designed to be readily accessible to a broad audience of users and provides benchmarks that correspond to many well-known quantum computing algorithms.
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