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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…

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

Impressive progress has been made in the past decade in the study of technological applications of varied types of quantum systems. With industry giants like IBM laying down their roadmap for scalable quantum devices with more than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Rishabh Gupta , Sabre Kais , Raphael D. Levine

Accelerated algorithms for maximum likelihood image reconstruction are essential for emerging applications such as 3D tomography, dynamic tomographic imaging, and other high dimensional inverse problems. In this paper, we introduce and…

Computation · Statistics 2012-01-31 Stéphane Chrétien , Alfred O. Hero

Fidelity is a fundamental measure for the closeness of two quantum states, which is important both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. Yet, in general, it is difficult to give good estimates of fidelity, especially when one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 András Gilyén , Alexander Poremba

We have proven that there exists a quantum state approximating any multi-copy state universally when we measure the error by means of the normalized relative entropy. While the qubit case was proven by Krattenthaler and Slater (IEEE Trans.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Masahito Hayashi

We formulate a ''minimal'' interpretational scheme for fairly general (minisuperspace) quantum cosmological models. Admitting as few exact mathematical structure as is reasonably possible at the fundamental level, we apply approximate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Franz Embacher

In variational quantum algorithms (VQAs), the most common objective is to find the minimum energy eigenstate of a given energy Hamiltonian. In this paper, we consider the general problem of finding a sufficient control Hamiltonian structure…

Quantum Parameter Estimation (QPE) is important from the perspective of both fundamental quantum research and various practical applications of quantum technologies such as for developing optimal quantum control strategies. Standard and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Bijita Sarma , Junxin Chen , Sangkha Borah

In this paper, we present a generalization of the certainty equivalence principle of stochastic control. One interpretation of the classical certainty equivalence principle for linear systems with output feedback and quadratic costs is as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Berk Bozkurt , Aditya Mahajan , Ashutosh Nayyar , Yi Ouyang

Quantum Gibbs state sampling algorithms generally suffer from either scaling exponentially with system size or requiring specific knowledge of spectral properties \textit{a priori}. Also, these algorithms require a large overhead of bath or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Jeffrey Cohn , Khadijeh Sona Najafi , Forest Yang , Barbara Jones , James K. Freericks

The density matrices are positively semi-definite Hermitian matrices of unit trace that describe the state of a quantum system. The goal of the paper is to develop minimax lower bounds on error rates of estimation of low rank density…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-19 Vladimir Koltchinskii , Dong Xia

We address the estimation problem for general finite mixture models, with a particular focus on the elliptical mixture models (EMMs). Compared to the widely adopted Kullback-Leibler divergence, we show that the Wasserstein distance provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Shengxi Li , Zeyang Yu , Min Xiang , Danilo Mandic

We introduce an approximate description of an $N$-qubit state, which contains sufficient information to estimate the expectation value of any observable with precision independent of $N$. We show, in fact, that the error in the estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Marco Paini , Amir Kalev

Using the necessary and sufficient conditions, minimum error discrimination among two sets of similarity transformed equiprobable quantum qudit states is investigated. In the case that the unitary operators are generating sets of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 M. A. Jafarizadeh , Y. Mazhari Khiavi , Y. Akbari Kourbolagh

Generating quantum data by learning the underlying quantum distribution poses challenges in both theoretical and practical scenarios, yet it is a critical task for understanding quantum systems. A fundamental question in quantum machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Quoc Hoan Tran , Koki Chinzei , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

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

The problem of discriminating with minimum error between two mixed quantum states is reviewed, with emphasize on the detection operators necessary for performing the measurement. An analytical result is derived for the minimum probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ulrike Herzog

State estimation is a classical problem in quantum information. In optimization of estimation scheme, to find a lower bound to the error of the estimator is a very important step. So far, all the proposed tractable lower bounds use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiyuki Tsuda , Keiji Matsumoto

This thesis synthesizes probability and entropic inference with Quantum Mechanics (QM) and quantum measurement [1-6]. It is shown that the standard and quantum relative entropies are tools designed for the purpose of updating probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Kevin Vanslette