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The notion of a qubit is ubiquitous in quantum information processing. In spite of the simple abstract definition of qubits as two-state quantum systems, identifying qubits in physical systems is often unexpectedly difficult. There are an…

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Quantum information processing using linear optics is challenging due to the limited set of deterministic operations achievable without using complicated resource-intensive methods. While techniques such as the use of ancillary photons can…

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We address perfect discrimination of two separable states. When available states are restricted to separable states, we can theoretically consider a larger class of measurements than the class of measurements allowed in quantum theory. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Hayato Arai , Yuuya Yoshida , Masahito Hayashi

The quantum formalism permits one to discriminate sometimes between any set of linearly-independent pure states with certainty. We obtain the maximum probability with which a set of equally-likely, symmetric, linearly-independent states can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anthony Chefles , Stephen M. Barnett

The need of discriminating between different quantum states is a fundamental issue in Quantum Information and Communication. The actual realization of generally optimal strategies in this task is often limited by the need of supplemental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Alessandro Laneve , Andrea Geraldi , Frenkli Hamiti , Paolo Mataloni , Filippo Caruso

The geometry of quantum states provides a unifying framework for estimation processes based on quantum probes, and it allows to derive the ultimate bounds of the achievable precision. We show a relation between the statistical distance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Paolo Giorda , Michele Allegra

Quantum processes, such as quantum circuits, quantum memories, and quantum channels, are essential ingredients in almost all quantum information processing tasks. However, the characterization of these processes remains a daunting task due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Ye-Chao Liu , Jiangwei Shang , Xiao-Dong Yu , Xiangdong Zhang

We propose a generalized discrimination scheme for mixed quantum states. In the present scenario we allow for certain fixed fraction of inconclusive results and we maximize the success rate of the quantum-state discrimination. This protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jaromir Fiurasek , Miroslav Jezek

We introduce the concept of quantum supermap, describing the most general transformation that maps an input quantum operation into an output quantum operation. Since quantum operations include as special cases quantum states, effects, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 G. Chiribella , G. M. D'Ariano , P. Perinotti

Quantum noise constitutes a fundamental obstacle to realizing practical quantum technologies. To address the pivotal challenge of identifying quantum systems least affected by noise, we introduce the purest quantum state identification,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Yingqi Yu , Honglin Chen , Jun Wu , Wei Xie , Xiangyang Li

We address a broad class of optimization problems of finding quantum measurements, which includes the problems of finding an optimal measurement in the Bayes criterion and a measurement maximizing the average success probability with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Kenji Nakahira , Kentaro Kato , Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda

Precise control of quantum systems with a moderate number of degrees of freedom, being of interest for application in quantum technologies, becomes experimentally feasible. Various types of quantum scenarios and protocols are being widely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 P. V. Pyshkin , E. Ya. Sherman , A. Gábris , Lian-Ao Wu

The quantum properties of quantum measurements are indispensable resources in quantum information processing and have drawn extensive research interest. The conventional approach to reveal the quantum properties relies on the reconstruction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Liang Xu , Huichao Xu , Jie Xie , Hui Li , Lin Zhou , Feixiang Xu , Lijian Zhang

We investigate the optimal estimation of a quantum process that can possibly consist of multiple time steps. The estimation is implemented by a quantum network that interacts with the process by sending an input and processing the output at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-11 G. Chiribella

We present a number of results related to quantum algorithms with small error probability and quantum algorithms that are zero-error. First, we give a tight analysis of the trade-offs between the number of queries of quantum search…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 H. Buhrman , R. Cleve , R. de Wolf , Ch. Zalka

The indistinguishability of non-orthogonal pure states lies at the heart of quantum information processing. Although the indistinguishability reflects the impossibility of measuring complementary physical quantities by a single measurement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Seiseki Akibue , Go Kato , Naoki Marumo

To successfully execute large-scale algorithms, a quantum computer will need to perform its elementary operations near perfectly. This is a fundamental challenge since all physical qubits suffer a considerable level of noise. Moreover, real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Armands Strikis , Simon C. Benjamin , Benjamin J. Brown

Measurement incompatibility is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. In the context of estimating multiple parameters of a quantum system, this manifests as a fundamental trade-off between the precisions with which different parameters can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Simon K. Yung , Aritra Das , Jun Suzuki , Ping Koy Lam , Jie Zhao , Lorcán O. Conlon , Syed M. Assad

The efficient and reliable characterization of quantum states plays a vital role in most, if not all, quantum information processing tasks. In this work, we present a universally optimal protocol for verifying entangled states by employing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Ye-Chao Liu , Jiangwei Shang , Rui Han , Xiangdong Zhang

Quantum control is an essential tool for the operation of quantum technologies such as quantum computers, simulators, and sensors. Although there are sophisticated theoretical tools for developing quantum control protocols, formulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Hanhan Li , Alireza Shabani , Mohan Sarovar , Birgitta K. Whaley