Classical-processing and quantum-processing signal separation methods for qubit uncoupling

  • Authors:
  • Yannick Deville;Alain Deville

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, UPS-CNRS-OMP, Toulouse, France 31400;IM2NP, Centre de Saint-Jérôme, Université de Provence, Marseille Cedex 20, France 13397

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Blind Source Separation problem consists in estimating a set of unknown source signals from their measured combinations. It was only investigated in a non-quantum framework up to now. We propose its first quantum extensions. We thus introduce the Quantum Source Separation field, investigating both its blind and non-blind configurations. More precisely, we show how to retrieve individual quantum bits (qubits) only from the global state resulting from their undesired coupling. We consider cylindrical-symmetry Heisenberg coupling, which e.g. occurs when two electron spins interact through exchange. We first propose several qubit uncoupling methods which typically measure repeatedly the coupled quantum states resulting from individual qubits preparations, and which then statistically process the classical data provided by these measurements. Numerical tests prove the effectiveness of these methods. We then derive a combination of quantum gates for performing qubit uncoupling, thus avoiding repeated qubit preparations and irreversible measurements.