Process tomography for systems in a thermal state

Ran Ber, Shmuel Marcovitch, Oded Kenneth, Benni Reznik
2013 New Journal of Physics  
We propose a new method for implementing process tomography that is based on the information extracted from temporal correlations between observables, rather than on state preparation and state tomography. As such, the approach is applicable to systems that are in a mixed state, and in particular to thermal states. We illustrate the method for an arbitrary evolution described by Kraus operators, as well as for simpler cases such as a general Gaussian channels, and qubit dynamics.
doi:10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/013050 fatcat:xkwjj6ghuzbjjd2idxp4haa32u