Local Asymptotic Equivalence of Pure States Ensembles and Quantum Gaussian White Noise

Cristina Butucea (), Madalin Guta () and Michael Nussbaum ()
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Cristina Butucea: CREST; ENSAE
Madalin Guta: University of Nottingham
Michael Nussbaum: Cornell University

No 2017-27, Working Papers from Center for Research in Economics and Statistics

Abstract: Quantum technology is increasingly relying on specialised statistical inference methods for analysing quantum measurement data. This motivates the development of "quantum statistics", a field that is shaping up at the overlap of quantum physics and "classical" statistics. One of the less investigated topics to date is that of statistical inference for infinite dimensional quantum systems, which can be seen as quantum counterpart of non-parametric statistics. In this paper we analyse the asymptotic theory of quantum statistical models consisting of ensembles of quantum systems which are identically prepared in a pure state. In the limit of large ensembles we establish the local asymptotic equivalence (LAE) of this i.i.d. model to a quantum Gaussian white noise model. We use the LAE result in order to establish minimax rates for the estimation of pure states belonging to Hermite-Sobolev classes of wave functions. Moreover, for quadratic functional estimation of the same states we note an elbow effect in the rates, whereas for testing a pure state a sharp parametric rate is attained over the nonparametric Hermite-Sobolev class. ;Classification-JEL: 62B15; 62G05; 62G10; 81P50

Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2017-01-01
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