Reading Qubits with Sequential Weak Measurements: Limits of Information Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14583v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:50:50 GMT
• Title: Reading Qubits with Sequential Weak Measurements: Limits of Information Extraction
• Authors: Cesar Lema, Aleix Bou-Comas, Atithi Acharya, Vadim Oganesyan, Anirvan Sengupta,
• Abstract summary: We study the information physics of quantum trajectories based on weak measurements in order to address the optimal performance in qubit configuration readout.<n>We first use mutual information to characterize how much intrinsic information about the initial state is encoded in the measurement record.<n>We develop an expansion in the measurement efficiency parameter to calculate mutual information, which captures qualitative and quantitative features of the numerical data.
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• Abstract: Quantum information processing and computation requires high accuracy qubit configuration readout. In many practical schemes, the initial qubit configuration has to be inferred from readout that is a time-dependent weak measurement record. However, a combination of the measurement scheme and intrinsic dynamics can end up scrambling the initial state and lose information irretrievably. Here, we study the information physics of quantum trajectories based on weak measurements in order to address the optimal achievable performance in qubit configuration readout for two realistic models of single qubit readout: (i) Model I is informationally complete, but without intrinsic dynamics; (ii) Model II is informationally incomplete weak measurements with intrinsic dynamics. We first use mutual information to characterize how much intrinsic information about the initial state is encoded in the measurement record. Using a fixed discrete time-step formulation, we compute the mutual information while varying the measurement strength, duration of measurement record, and the relative strength of intrinsic dynamics in our measurement schemes. We also exploit the emergence of continuum scaling and the Stochastic Master Equation in the weak measurement limit. We develop an asymptotic expansion in the measurement efficiency parameter to calculate mutual information, which captures qualitative and quantitative features of the numerical data. The bounds on information extraction are manifested as plateaux in mutual information, our analysis obtains these bounds and also optimal duration of measurement required to saturate them. Our results should be useful both for quantum device operation and optimization and also, possibly, for improving the performance of recent machine learning approaches for qubit and multiqubit configuration readout in current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) experiment regimes.

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