Online Riemannian Gradient Descent for Quantum State Tomography with Matrix Product Operators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04533v1
• Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 06:19:46 GMT
• Title: Online Riemannian Gradient Descent for Quantum State Tomography with Matrix Product Operators
• Abstract summary: Matrix product operators (MPOs) provide a scalable approach for quantum state tomography (QST)<n>We study QST for quantum density matrices that can be represented by MPOs.<n>Motivated by this formulation, we develop an online gradient descent (oRGD) algorithm that sequentially incorporates measurement data.
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• Abstract: Matrix product operators (MPOs) provide a scalable approach for quantum state tomography (QST) by offering a compact representation of many-body mixed states with limited entanglement, using only a number of parameters that scales polynomially with the system size. In this paper, we study QST for quantum density matrices that can be represented by MPOs. We first derive an equivalent characterization of Hermiticity in terms of the MPO core tensors and show that the coefficient tensor of an MPO under the Pauli or generalized Gell-Mann basis admits a real-valued low tensor-train (TT) rank structure. This establishes an explicit connection between MPO-based QST and noisy low-rank tensor completion. Motivated by this formulation, we develop an online Riemannian gradient descent (oRGD) algorithm that sequentially incorporates measurement data during the reconstruction process. With a proper initialization, we prove that oRGD converges linearly to the target MPO and succeeds with a number of distinct measurement settings that scales quadratically with the system size. As a byproduct, our analysis also yields a significantly improved sample complexity bound for the low TT rank tensor completion task. Furthermore, we propose a tailored spectral initialization method and establish its theoretical guarantee. Numerical experiments on several classes of quantum states validate the effectiveness and scalability of the proposed method.

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