%0 Journal Article
%T Fidelity of Single Qubit Maps
%A M. D. Bowdrey
%A D. K. L. Oi
%A A. J. Short
%A K. Banaszek
%A J. A. Jones
%J Physics
%D 2002
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/S0375-9601(02)00069-5
%X We describe a simple way of characterizing the average fidelity between a unitary (or anti-unitary) operator and a general operation on a single qubit, which only involves calculating the fidelities for a few pure input states, and discuss possible applications to experimental techniques including Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR).
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0201106v1