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With a growing number of quantum networks in operation, there is a pressing need for performance analysis of quantum switching technologies. A quantum switch establishes, distributes, and maintains entanglements across a network. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Sanidhay Bhambay , Thirupathaiah Vasantam , Neil Walton

We develop a framework of "semi-automatic differentiation" that combines existing gradient-based methods of quantum optimal control with automatic differentiation. The approach allows to optimize practically any computable functional and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Michael H. Goerz , Sebastián C. Carrasco , Vladimir S. Malinovsky

We develop an efficient algorithm for determining optimal adaptive quantum estimation protocols with arbitrary quantum control operations between subsequent uses of a probed channel. We introduce a tensor network representation of an…

Armed with quantum correlations, quantum sensors in a network have shown the potential to outclass their classical counterparts in distributed sensing tasks such as clock synchronization and reference frame alignment. On the other hand,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yuxiang Yang , Benjamin Yadin , Zhen-Peng Xu

We propose to use neural networks to estimate the rates of coherent and incoherent processes in quantum systems from continuous measurement records. In particular, we adapt an image recognition algorithm to recognize the patterns in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Eliska Greplova , Christian Kraglund Andersen , Klaus Mølmer

We introduce a general model for a network of quantum sensors, and we use this model to consider the question: When can entanglement between the sensors, and/or global measurements, enhance the precision with which the network can measure a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Timothy J. Proctor , Paul A. Knott , Jacob A. Dunningham

A fundamental challenge in multiparameter quantum estimation arises from the incompatibility of optimal measurements for different parameters, leading to intricate precision trade-offs that obscure the understanding of ultimate quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Lingna Wang , Hongzhen Chen , Haidong Yuan

This paper investigates the asymptotic and non-asymptotic behavior of the quantized primal dual algorithm in network utility maximization problems, in which a group of agents maximize the sum of their individual concave objective functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Ehsan Nekouei , Tansu Alpcan , Girish Nair , Robin Evans

Entanglement is a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics and holds great promise for enhancing metrology and communications. Much of the focus of quantum metrology so far has been on generating highly entangled quantum states that offer…

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 process of translating a quantum algorithm into a form suitable for implementation on a quantum computing platform is crucial but yet challenging. This entails specifying quantum operations with precision, a typically intricate task. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 M. Zomorodi , H. Amini , M. Abbaszadeh , J. Sohrabi , V. Salari , P. Plawiak

This paper aims to implement and evaluate the performance of quantum computing on solving combinatorial optimization problems arising from the operations of the power grid. To this end, we construct a novel mixed integer conic programming…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Phuong Ngo , Christan Thomas , Hieu Nguyen , Abdullah Eroglu , Konstantinos Oikonomou

We explore the task of optimal quantum channel identification, and in particular the estimation of a general one parameter quantum process. We derive new characterizations of optimality and apply the results to several examples including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mohan Sarovar , G. J. Milburn

When both the difference between two quantities and their individual values can be measured or computational predicted, multiple quantities can be determined from the measurements or predictions of select individual quantities and select…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-24 Huafeng Xu

In this PhD thesis, several aspects regarding maximal entanglement are analyzed. In the first chapter, Bell Inequalities are analyzed from an operational perspective as well as novel Bell inequalities are obtained together with their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Alba Cervera-Lierta

A programmable quantum processor is a fundamental model of quantum computation. In this model, any quantum channel can be approximated by applying a fixed universal quantum operation onto an input state and a quantum `program' state, whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Leonardo Banchi , Jason Pereira , Seth Lloyd , Stefano Pirandola

Precise estimation of physical parameters underpins both scientific discovery and technological development. A central goal of quantum metrology and sensing is to exploit quantum resources like entanglement to devise optimal strategies for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zhao-Yi Zhou , Da-Jian Zhang

Optimization drives advances in quantum science and machine learning, yet most generative models aim to mimic data rather than to discover optimal answers to challenging problems. Here we present a variational generative optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Lingxia Zhang , Xiaodie Lin , Peidong Wang , Kaiyan Yang , Xiao Zeng , Zhaohui Wei , Zizhu Wang

In multiparameter quantum estimation, the optimal measurements for different parameters encoded in a quantum state are in general incompatible, giving rise to nontrivial tradeoffs between their attainable precisions. Understanding and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Lingna Wang , Hongzhen Chen , Haidong Yuan

Entangled states shared among distant nodes are frequently used in quantum network applications. When quantum resources are abundant, entangled states can be continuously distributed across the network, allowing nodes to consume them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Álvaro G. Iñesta , Stephanie Wehner