Table 1 Summary of the four overlap estimation strategies

From: Experimental benchmarking of quantum state overlap estimation strategies with photonic systems

 

TT

TP

SCM

OST

Measurement

\({\hat{\sigma }}_{i},\,{\hat{\sigma }}_{i}\)

\(\,{\hat{\sigma }}_{i},|\widetilde{\phi }\rangle \langle \widetilde{\phi }|\)

\({\hat{E}}_{-}=|{\Psi }_{-}{{\rangle }}{{\langle }}{\Psi }_{-}|\)

HOMI, PPNRD

Estimator \(\widetilde{c}\)

\({|\langle \widetilde{\psi }|\widetilde{\phi }\rangle |}^{2}\)

k/N

1 − 2k/N

(1 − 2k/N)/Γ

v(c, N)

4κc(1 − c)/N

(2κ + 1)c(1 − c)/N

(1 − c2)/N

(3 − Γc)(1 − Γ2 c2)/2NΓ2

  1. The average variances \(v(c,N)\) are derived in the asymptotic limit (\(N\to \infty\)). \(\{{\hat{\sigma }}_{i}\}\): three Pauli operators. \(k\): Measurement outcome statistic in corresponding strategy. \(\kappa\): scaled average infidelity in the pure qubit tomography based on MUB (see Materials and methods). HOMI Hong-Ou-Mandel interference. PPNRD pseudo photon-number-resolving detectors. Γ: indistinguishability between the internal modes of two photons in HOMI