Non-Hermitian Physics in Quantum Channels: Pseudo-Hermiticity, Spectrum Measurement and Application to Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11074v1
• Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:53:11 GMT
• Title: Non-Hermitian Physics in Quantum Channels: Pseudo-Hermiticity, Spectrum Measurement and Application to Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation
• Authors: Yuan-De Jin, Wen-Long Ma,
• Abstract summary: We show that the natural representation of any quantum channel is a pseudo-Hermitian matrix if it is diagonalizable with a discrete spectrum.<n>We show that the spectrum measurement of such channels can be utilized for learning the free Hamiltonian generating the unitary channel of the target system.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum channels describe the most general evolutions of open quantum systems. The natural representation of a quantum channel, as a linear map on vectorized quantum states, is often a non-Hermitian matrix. Here we reveal the intriguing non-Hermitian physics in quantum channels and its application. We first demonstrate that the natural representation of any quantum channel is a pseudo-Hermitian matrix if it is diagonalizable with a discrete spectrum, due to its eigenvalues being either real or in complex conjugate pairs. Then we propose a general method to measure the channel spectrum by tracking the measurement statistics of a specific outcome in sequential quantum channels. We further construct and analyze a typical class of quantum channels, with each channel being a unitary channel on a target system followed by a weak-measurement channel induced by a Ramsey sequence of a probe qubit. We show that the spectrum measurement of such channels can be utilized for learning the free Hamiltonian generating the unitary channel of the target system. As practical examples, we numerically demonstrate that a probe spin qubit can accurately sense nuclear spin clusters for nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance.

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