Characterizing Arbitrary Lindbladian Dynamics with a Few Pauli Measurements

Abstract:Quantum devices are open systems whose dynamics interleave coherent evolution with dissipation, and benchmarking, error mitigation, and error correction all rest on a faithful model of both. Existing characterization protocols either assume prior knowledge of the interaction and noise structure, or demand ancillas, entangled probes, or mid-circuit control, or capture only the Pauli-diagonal part of the noise. Here, we present a protocol that reconstructs an arbitrary sparse Markovian generator, including every Hamiltonian together with the jump operator coefficients, using only product Pauli state preparation, single uninterrupted forward evolutions, and product Pauli measurements. Given a sparsity budget $M_0$ and a strength bound $\Gamma$ of the Lindbladian, every coefficient is learned to precision $\epsilon$ from $\widetilde{O}(\Gamma^2M_0^2/\epsilon^4)$ experiments and $\widetilde{O}(\Gamma M_0^2/\epsilon^2)$ total evolution time, with both supports identified from data without locality assumptions. The protocol runs at a logarithmic number of positive evolution times on a hardware clock lattice and is provably robust to calibrated state-preparation and measurement errors.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

arXiv:2607.23044 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2607.23044v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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