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Constrained Shadow Tomography for Molecular Simulation on Quantum Devices

Quantum Physics 2026-04-28 v1 Chemical Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

Quantum state tomography is a fundamental task in quantum information science, enabling detailed characterization of correlations, entanglement, and electronic structure in quantum systems. However, its exponential measurement and computational demands limit scalability, motivating efficient alternatives such as classical shadows, which enable accurate prediction of many observables from randomized measurements. In this work, we introduce a bi-objective semidefinite programming approach for constrained shadow tomography, designed to reconstruct the two-particle reduced density matrix (2-RDM) from noisy or incomplete shadow data. By integrating NN-representability constraints and nuclear-norm regularization into the optimization, the method builds an NN-representable 2-RDM that balances fidelity to the shadow measurements with energy minimization. This unified framework mitigates noise and sampling errors while enforcing physical consistency in the reconstructed states. Numerical and hardware results demonstrate that the approach significantly improves accuracy, noise resilience, and scalability, providing a robust foundation for physically consistent fermionic state reconstruction in realistic quantum simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2511.09717,
  title  = {Constrained Shadow Tomography for Molecular Simulation on Quantum Devices},
  author = {Irma Avdic and Yuchen Wang and Michael Rose and Lillian I. Payne Torres and Anna O. Schouten and Kevin J. Sung and David A. Mazziotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.09717},
  year   = {2026}
}
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