title: Complementary classical fidelities as an efficient criterion for the evaluation of experimentally realized quantum operations.
abstract: It is shown that a good estimate of the fidelity of an experimentally realized quantum process can be obtained by measuring the outputs for only two complementary sets of input states. The number of measurements required to test a quantum network operation is therefore only twice as high as the number of measurements required to test a corresponding classical system.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama 1-3-1, Higashi Hiroshima 739-8530, Japan. h.hofmann@osa.org
authors.forename: Holger F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Hofmann