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We propose and analyze quantum state estimation (tomography) using continuous quantum measurements with resource limitations, allowing the global state of many qubits to be constructed from only measuring a few. We give a proof-of-principle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Areeya Chantasri , Shengshi Pang , Teerawat Chalermpusitarak , Andrew N. Jordan

The goal of qubit purification is to combine multiple noisy copies of an unknown pure quantum state to obtain one or more copies that are closer to the pure state. We show that a simple protocol based solely on random SWAP tests achieves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Shrigyan Brahmachari , Austin Hulse , Henry D. Pfister , Iman Marvian

Quantum state tomography (QST) aims at reconstructing the state of a quantum system. However in conventional QST the number of measurements scales exponentially with the number of qubits. Here we propose a QST protocol, in which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Daniele Binosi , Giovanni Garberoglio , Diego Maragnano , Maurizio Dapor , Marco Liscidini

Quantum hypergraph states form a generalisation of the graph state formalism that goes beyond the pairwise (dyadic) interactions imposed by remaining inside the Gaussian approximation. Networks of such states are able to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Abhijith Ravikumar , Darren W. Moore , Radim Filip

Quantum state tomography (QST) is crucial for understanding and characterizing quantum systems through measurement data. Traditional QST methods face scalability challenges, requiring $\mathcal{O}(d^2)$ measurements for a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Jiahui Wu , Zheng An , Chao Zhang , Xuanran Zhu , Shilin Huang , Bei Zeng

Trace distance and infidelity (induced by square root fidelity), as basic measures of the closeness of quantum states, are commonly used in quantum state discrimination, certification, and tomography. However, the sample complexity for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Qisheng Wang , Zhicheng Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of measuring the purity of a quantum state (and the overlap between two quantum states) within a minimal model where the measurement device is minimally composed. The minimality is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Toru Tanaka , Gen Kimura , Hiromichi Nakazato

Recent work has revealed that the wave function of a pure state can be measured directly and that complementary knowledge of a quantum system can be obtained simultaneously by weak measurements. However, the original scheme applies only to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Shengjun Wu

We present graphs of information versus disturbance for general quantum measurements of completely unknown states. Each piece of information and disturbance is quantified by two measures: (i) the Shannon entropy and estimation fidelity for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 Hiroaki Terashima

Using a spontaneous parametric-downconversion source of photon pairs, we are working towards the creation of arbitrary 2-qubit quantum states with high fidelity. Currently, all physically allowable combinations of polarization entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Kwiat , Joe Altepeter , David Branning , Evan Jeffrey , Nicholas Peters , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Bounds analogous to entropic uncertainty relations allow one to design practical tests to detect quantum entanglement by a collective measurement performed on several copies of the state analyzed. This approach, initially worked out for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Łukasz Rudnicki , Zbigniew Puchała , Paweł Horodecki , Karol Życzkowski

Characterizing large noisy multiparty quantum states using genuine multiparty entanglement is a challenging task. In this paper, we calculate lower bounds of genuine multiparty entanglement localized over a chosen multiparty subsystem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Harikrishnan K. J. , Amit Kumar Pal

Vast developments in quantum technology have enabled the preparation of quantum states with more than a dozen entangled qubits. The full characterization of such systems demands distinct constructions depending on their specific type and…

When working with quantum states, analysis of the final quantum state generated through probabilistic measurements is essential. This analysis is typically conducted by constructing the density matrix from either partial or full tomography…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Rohit Prasad , Pratyay Ghosh , Ronny Thomale , Tobias Huber-Loyola

We present the results of an operational use of experimentally measured optical tomograms to determine state characteristics (purity) avoiding any reconstruction of quasiprobabilities. We also develop a natural way how to estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 M. Bellini , A. S. Coelho , S. N. Filippov , V. I. Man'ko , A. Zavatta

Entanglement lies at the heart of quantum information science, serving as a key resource for quantum communication, computation, and metrology. Consequently, high-precision entangled state preparation and efficient verification are…

We have performed experimental quantum state tomography of NOON states with up to four photons. The measured states are generated by mixing a classical coherent state with spontaneous parametric down-conversion. We show that this method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Yonatan Israel , Itai Afek , Shamir Rosen , Oron Ambar , Yaron Silberberg

Quantum states featuring extensive multipartite entanglement are a resource for quantum-enhanced metrology, with sensitivity up to the Heisenberg limit. However, robust generation of these states using unitary dynamics typically requires…

We establish methods for quantum state tomography based on compressed sensing. These methods are specialized for quantum states that are fairly pure, and they offer a significant performance improvement on large quantum systems. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 David Gross , Yi-Kai Liu , Steven T. Flammia , Stephen Becker , Jens Eisert

Classical computation of electronic properties in large-scale materials remains challenging. Quantum computation has the potential to offer advantages in memory footprint and computational scaling. However, general and practical quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yiran Bai , Feng Xiong , Xueheng Kuang