Distributions of Noisy Expectation Values over Sets of Measurement Operators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05973v1
• Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:05:14 GMT
• Title: Distributions of Noisy Expectation Values over Sets of Measurement Operators
• Abstract summary: When quantum states are randomly distributed, their expectation values are also randomly distributed.<n>We construct empirical distributions of simulated Haar random quantum circuits with local depolarizing noise.<n>The fit effective model parameters are also shown to vary smoothly and consistently with circuit depth and noise scale.
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• Abstract: Expectation values of measurement operators, interpreted as measurement probabilities, arise frequently throughout quantum algorithms. When quantum states are randomly distributed, their expectation values are also randomly distributed. In this work, with the goal of understanding non-unitary dynamics, we generalize previous derivations for distributions of expectation values (Campos Venuti and Zanardi, Physics Letters A (377), 2013) to the case of sets of measurement operators and random mixed quantum states within variable sized environments. Using combinatorics approaches, we derive expressions for their moments. We proceed to construct empirical distributions of simulated Haar random brickwork quantum circuits with local depolarizing noise, and compare their form to a proposed effective global-depolarizing-like model with variable effective noise scales and environment dimensions. The fitted effective distributions reproduce peak behaviour across circuit depths, noise scales, and system sizes, while deviations in the distribution tails arise from local noise effects. The fit effective model parameters are also shown to vary smoothly and consistently with circuit depth and noise scale. Finally, sets of non-symmetric measurement operators are shown to exhibit distinct multi-modal distributions relative to uni-modal distributions for symmetric measurement operators, opening up questions about their simulability.

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