Optimal verification of stabilizer states
Ninnat Dangniam, Yun-guang Han, Huangjun Zhu
10 Aug 2020
Department of Physics and Center for Field Theory and Particle Physics, Fudan University




Identitifying a quantum state

Trusted multi-qubit measurement
- Quantum state tomography fully identifies an unknown quantum state
- Sample-optimal tomography requires an exponential amount of resource (Haah et al., 2017), entangled measurements (serial or parallel)



i.i.d. quantum states
σ⊗N (possibly mixed)
State space
Verifying a quantum state




Trusted single-qubit measurement



OA⊗IB+IA⊗OB⟶OA⊗OB
classical post-processing
i.i.d. quantum states
σ⊗N (possibly mixed)
- Quantum state verification aims to certify that σ is close to some target pure state ρ using only local projective measurements
State space
XX
(relative
phase)
ZZ
(parity)
+1 | +1 |
-1 | +1 |
+1 | -1 |
-1 | -1 |
For general pure states (linear combinations of the four Bell states) and mixed states, there will be a failure probability to detect the target state
Example: Distinguishing Bell states
(∣Φ+⟩⟨Φ+∣ is nonlocal)
Measure {Πj,I−Πj} with probability pj
Obtain
Πj

Obtain
I−Πj
Reject
The hypothesis testing scenario
Chernoff-Stein lemma
σ=ρ: Accept with probability 1
(No type I error)
ϵ-far: Accept with probability δ (type II error)
∣ψ⟩ is a +1 eigenstate of the verification operator
spectral gap ν(Ω)
Pallister et al., PRL 120 170502 (2018)
Zhu & Hayashi, PR Appl. 12, 054047 (2019)
Test projector
Existing results
Efficient? | Optimal? | |
---|---|---|
Bipartite pure states | ||
GHZ | ||
Hypergraphs | * | |
(Phased) Dicke states | ||
Antisymmetric basis states | ||
Stabilizer states | ? |







Pallister et al., PRL 120 170502 (2018)
Our work

Main results for this talk
- There is an efficiency bound for verification of stabilizer states that does not depend on the number of qubits or the specific stabilizer states
- The bound can be saturated, at least up to seven qubits, by explicitly constructing an optimal measurement scheme
Stabilizer and graph states
Stabilizer states
Efficiently describable states

Cluster states
- Resource states for MBQC
GHZ state
- Quantum error correction
- Secret sharing

- Every stabilizer state is LU-equivalent to some graph state
- Stabilizer state = stabilized by a commuting subgroup of the n-qubit Pauli group
Pn={±1,±i}⋅{I,X,Y,Z}⊗n
that does not contain −I, called a stabilizer group S
- Completely speficified by n independent generators of the group

Graph states
Every convex combination of stabilizers in S of a target stabilizer state ∣ψ⟩ has ∣ψ⟩ as a +1 eigenstate, but not all of them are measurable locally
Characterizing test projectors

SP = stabilizer group generated by all single-qubit Pauli operators that constitute a Pauli measurement
Local subgroup
Example: GHZ state
XXXX... |
ZZI... |
IZZI... |
IIZZI... |
Measuring ZZ... effectly measures half of the stabilizer group
Canonical test projector
Verification of stabilizer states
Unique optimal strategy if restricted to stabilizer measurements: measuring all stabilizers with equal probabilities
More general measurements?
Pallister, Linden and Montanaro, PRL 120 170502 (2018)
Wang and Hayashi, arXiv:1901.09467 [quant-ph]
(2/3 when n=2)
- Increasing the dimension of one half of a maximally entangled bipartite system cannot increase ν(Ω)=2/3
- But every stabilizer state is maximally entangled w.r.t. any (C2,(C2)⊗n)-bipartition
Spectral gap is upper bounded by 2/3

- Increasing the dimension of one half of a maximally entangled bipartite system cannot increase ν(Ω)=2/3
- But every stabilizer state is maximally entangled w.r.t. any (C2,(C2)⊗n)-bipartition
Spectral gap is upper bounded by 2/3


The algorithm
The bound can be saturated for all graph states up to seven qubits by explicitly constructing the optimal measurement scheme
- All computation is done in the symplectic vector formalism
- Construct the local stabilizer projector.
- Optimize the spectral gap (l∞-norm minimization - a linear program hence efficient)
- Do this for all 45 LU-equivalent classes of graph states (LC-equivalent to stabilizer states)
Hein, Eisert and Briegel, PRL 69 062311 (2004)

Paulis | Probabilities |
---|---|
ZXZXXXX ZZYYXXZ ZYXZXXY XZZYZYX XZXZZZZ XXXXYZY XYYYYYY YZYZZYY YXYXZZZ YYZZYYX YYXYYZZ |
1/6 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 |
The algorithm
Other results
- Necessary condition for optimal verification by Pauli measurements px=py=pz=1/3
- Optimal XZ strategies (ν=1/2), optimal strategy for odd ring states (simplest non 2-colorable graph)
- Admissible test projector = canonical test projectors that do not contain any other test projector, admissibility of XZ measurements ⟺ maximal independent set
- Minimal number of settings for verification
Equality for all graph states up to seven qubits
Stabilizer verification
By Ninnat Dangniam
Stabilizer verification
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