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Compiling quantum algorithms for near-term quantum computers (accounting for connectivity and native gate alphabets) is a major challenge that has received significant attention both by industry and academia. Avoiding the exponential…

How correlated are two quantum systems from the perspective of a third? We answer this by providing an optimal quantum state redistribution protocol for multipartite product sources. Specifically, given an arbitrary quantum state of three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Igor Devetak , Jon Yard

It is currently not possible to quantify the resources needed to perform a computation. As a consequence, it is not possible to reliably evaluate the hardware resources needed for the application of algorithms or the running of programs.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-30 R. J. J. H. van Son

Quantum phase estimation is a core task in quantum technologies ranging from metrology to quantum computing, where it appears as a key subroutine in various algorithms. Here, we quantitatively connect the performance of phase estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Felix Ahnefeld , Thomas Theurer , Martin B. Plenio

Random access memory is an indispensable device for classical information technology. Analog to this, for quantum information technology, it is desirable to have a random access quantum memory with many memory cells and programmable access…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-25 N. Jiang , Y. -F. Pu , W. Chang , C. Li , S. Zhang , L. -M. Duan

Quantum signal processing (QSP) and quantum singular value transformation (QSVT), have emerged as unifying frameworks in the context of quantum algorithm design. These techniques allow to carry out efficient polynomial transformations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Lorenzo Laneve

In existing general-purpose architectures for surface-code-based fault-tolerant quantum computers, the cost of a quantum computation is determined by the circuit volume, i.e., the number of qubits multiplied by the number of non-Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Daniel Litinski , Naomi Nickerson

Quantization-aware training (QAT) is an effective method to drastically reduce the memory footprint of LLMs while keeping performance degradation at an acceptable level. However, the optimal choice of quantization format and bit-width…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Sohir Maskey , Constantin Eichenberg , Johannes Messner , Douglas Orr

One of the most intriguing facts about communication using quantum states is that these states cannot be used to transmit more classical bits than the number of qubits used, yet there are ways of conveying information with exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashwin Nayak , Amnon Ta-Shma , David Zuckerman

Quantum memories are regarded as one of the fundamental building blocks of linear-optical quantum computation and long-distance quantum communication. A long standing goal to realize scalable quantum information processing is to build a…

The quantum information science community has seen a surge in new algorithmic developments across scientific domains. These developments have demonstrated polynomial or better improvements in computational and space complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Vincent R. Pascuzzi , Ning Bao , Ang Li

Quantum computers offer the potential to simulate nuclear processes that are classically intractable. With the goal of understanding the necessary quantum resources to realize this potential, we employ state-of-the-art…

Quantum memory plays a critical role in quantum communication, sensing, and computation. However, studies on quantum memory under a unified benchmarking framework remain scarce. In this paper, we propose a weight-based quantifier as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jinghang Zhang , Yu Luo

Machine learning algorithms learn a desired input-output relation from examples in order to interpret new inputs. This is important for tasks such as image and speech recognition or strategy optimisation, with growing applications in the IT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Schuld , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

The quantum measurement problem is revisited and discussed in terms of a new solvable measurement model which basic ingredient is the quantum model of a controlled single-bit memory. The structure of this model involving strongly coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Robert Alicki

A growing body of work has established the modelling of stochastic processes as a promising area of application for quantum techologies; it has been shown that quantum models are able to replicate the future statistics of a stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Matthew Ho , Mile Gu , Thomas J. Elliott

The erasure of a bit of information encoded in a physical system is an irreversible operation bound to dissipate an amount of energy $Q = k_\text{B} T\ln 2$. As a result, work $W \geq Q$ has to be applied to the physical system to restore…

Single photons are the flying qubits of choice for distributing entanglement in a quantum internet. Quantum memories embedded in quantum repeaters are crucial to overcome transmission loss and enhance the rate of quantum communication. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 H. -X Luo , C. Li , J. -L. Ren , Y. Yuan , Y. -L. Wen , J. -F. Li , Y. -F. Wang , S. -C. Zhang , H. Yan , S. -L. Zhu

As quantum computers improve in the number of qubits and fidelity, the question of when they surpass state-of-the-art classical computation for a well-defined computational task is attracting much attention. The leading candidate task for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Igor L. Markov , Aneeqa Fatima , Sergei V. Isakov , Sergio Boixo

The communication complexity of a quantum channel is the minimal amount of classical communication required for classically simulating a process of state preparation, transmission through the channel and subsequent measurement. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 Alberto Montina