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Phys. Rev. A 63, 020101(R) (2001) [4 pages]

Maximum-likelihood estimation of quantum processes

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Jaromír Fiurášek and Zdeněk Hradil
Department of Optics, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 50, 772 07 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Received 29 September 2000; published 9 January 2001

Maximum-likelihood estimation is applied to identification of an unknown quantum-mechanical process. In contrast to linear reconstruction schemes, the proposed approach always yields physically sensible results. Its feasibility is demonstrated by performing the Monte Carlo simulations for the two-level system (single qubit).

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.020101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.63.020101
PACS:
03.65.Ta, 03.67.-a