Efficient measurement of the time-dependent cavity field through compressed sensing

We propose a method based on compressed sensing (CS) to measure the evolution processes of the states of a driven cavity quantum electrodynamics system. In precisely reconstructing the coherent cavity-field amplitudes, we have to prepare the same states repetitively and each time perform one measurement with short sampling intervals considering the quantum nature of the measurement and the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. However, with the help of CS, the number of measurements can be exponentially reduced without loss of the recovery accuracy. We use largely detuned atoms and control their interactions with the cavity field to modulate coherent state amplitudes according to the scheme encoded in the sensing matrix. The simulation results show that the CS method efficiently recovers the amplitudes of the coherent cavity field even in the presence of noise.