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Quantum estimation theory provides optimal observations for various estimation problems for unknown parameters in the state of the system under investigation. However, the theory has been developed under the assumption that every observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Hotta , M. Ozawa

The quantum relative entropy is a fundamental quantity in quantum information science, characterizing the distinguishability between two quantum states. However, this quantity is not additive in general for correlated quantum states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Kun Fang , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

We study maximum-entropy inference for finite-dimensional quantum states under linear moment constraints. Given expectation values of finitely many observables, the feasible set of states is convex but typically non-unique. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 James Tian

Approximating a quantum state by the convex mixing of some given states has strong experimental significance and provides potential applications in quantum resource theory. Here we find a closed form of the minimal distance in the sense of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Li-qiang Zhang , Nan-nan Zhou , Chang-shui Yu

There exists, in general, a convex set of quantum state estimators that maximize the likelihood for informationally incomplete data. We propose an estimation scheme, catered to measurement data of this kind, to search for the exact…

This paper introduces a method for calculating the quantum relative entropy of channels, an essential quantity in quantum channel discrimination and resource theories of quantum channels. By building on recent developments in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Gereon Koßmann , Mark M. Wilde

We introduce a new method to reconstruct unknown quantum states out of incomplete and noisy information. The method is a linear convex optimization problem, therefore with a unique minimum, which can be efficiently solved with Semidefinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-01 Thiago O. Maciel , André T. Cesário , Reinaldo O. Vianna

We study the contextuality of a three-level quantum system using classical conditional entropy of measurement outcomes. First, we analytically construct the minimal configuration of measurements required to reveal contextuality. Next, an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Pawel Kurzynski , Ravishankar Ramanathan , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Quantum physics, despite its observables being intrinsically of a probabilistic nature, does not have a quantum entropy assigned to them. We propose a quantum entropy that quantify the randomness of a pure quantum state via a conjugate pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Davi Geiger , Zvi M. Kedem

We present a quantum algorithm for finding the minimum of a function based on multistep quantum computation and apply it for optimization problems with continuous variables, in which the variables of the problem are discretized to form the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Hefeng Wang , Hua Xiang

The measured relative entropies of quantum states and channels find operational significance in quantum information theory as achievable error rates in hypothesis testing tasks. They are of interest in the near term, as they correspond to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zixin Huang , Mark M. Wilde

Special approximation technique for analysis of different characteristics of states of multipartite infinite-dimensional quantum systems is proposed and applied to study of the relative entropy of entanglement and its regularisation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 M. E. Shirokov

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

We present a detailed account of quantum state estimation by joint maximization of the likelihood and the entropy. After establishing the algorithms for both perfect and imperfect measurements, we apply the procedure to data from simulated…

A criterion and necessary conditions for convergence (local continuity) of the quantum relative entropy are obtained. Some applications of these results are considered. In particular, the preservation of local continuity of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 M. E. Shirokov

Evaluating the expectation of a quantum circuit is a classically difficult problem known as the quantum mean value problem (QMV). It is used to optimize the quantum approximate optimization algorithm and other variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 David Joseph , Antonio J. Martinez , Cong Ling , Florian Mintert

This paper describes a flexible framework for generalized low-rank tensor estimation problems that includes many important instances arising from applications in computational imaging, genomics, and network analysis. The proposed estimator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Rungang Han , Rebecca Willett , Anru R. Zhang

Recall the classical hypothesis testing setting with two convex sets of probability distributions P and Q. One receives either n i.i.d. samples from a distribution p in P or from a distribution q in Q and wants to decide from which set the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Aram W. Harrow , James R. Lee , Yuval Peres

We generalize proper scoring rules to the quantum domain, replacing probability distributions with density operators. We define Quantum Value Functionals via operator convex generators and establish a complete duality theory yielding proper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 M. W. AlMasri

Maximum likelihood estimation is one of the most used methods in quantum state tomography, where the aim is to reconstruct the density matrix of a physical system from measurement results. One strategy to deal with positivity and unit trace…