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If quantum states exhibit small nonlinearities during time evolution, then quantum computers can be used to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time. We provide algorithms that solve NP-complete and #P oracle problems by exploiting…

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Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental information processing task that serves as a building block for numerous applications and provides implications at the foundational level. In this work, we consider minimum error discrimination…

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We investigate models of nonlinear quantum computation based on deterministic positive trace-preserving (PTP) channels and evolution equations. The models are defined in any finite Hilbert space, but the main results are for dimension $N \!…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Michael R. Geller

Quantum mechanics fundamentally forbids deterministic discrimination of quantum states and processes. However, the ability to optimally distinguish various classes of quantum data is an important primitive in quantum information science. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Hongxiang Chen , Leonard Wossnig , Simone Severini , Hartmut Neven , Masoud Mohseni

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory, which refers to a class of techniques to identify a specific quantum state through a positive operator-valued measure. In this work, we investigate how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hyunho Cha , Jungwoo Lee

We show how to optimally unambiguously discriminate between two subspaces of a Hilbert space. In particular we suppose that we are given a quantum system in either the state \psi_{1}, where \psi_{1} can be any state in the subspace S_{1},…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Janos A. Bergou , Edgar Feldman , Mark Hillery

General Probabilistic Theories provide the most general mathematical framework for the theory of probability in an operationally natural manner, and generalize classical and quantum theories. In this article, we study state-discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 Koji Nuida , Gen Kimura , Takayuki Miyadera

We analyse the problem of finding sets of quantum states that can be deterministically discriminated. From a geometric point of view this problem is equivalent to that of embedding a simplex of points whose distances are maximal with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-09 D. Markham , J. A. Miszczak , Z. Puchala , K. Zyczkowski

We consider one copy of a quantum system prepared with equal prior probability in one of two non-orthogonal entangled states of multipartite distributed among separated parties. We demonstrate that these two states can be optimally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yi-Xin Chen , Dong Yang

In this paper we describe a quantum algorithm to solve sparse systems of nonlinear differential equations whose nonlinear terms are polynomials. The algorithm is nondeterministic and its expected resource requirements are polylogarithmic in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-24 Sarah K. Leyton , Tobias J. Osborne

In the case of quantum systems interacting with multiple environments, the time-evolution of the reduced density matrix is described by the Liouvillian. For a variety of physical observables, the long-time limit or steady state solution is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Kenneth A. Jung , Paul Brumer

The problem of non-orthogonal state discrimination underlies crucial quantum information tasks, such as cryptography and computing protocols. Therefore, it is decisive to find optimal scenarios for discrimination among quantum states. We…

The quantum state discrimination problem is to distinguish between non-orthogonal quantum states. This problem has many applications in quantum information theory, quantum communication and quantum cryptography. In this paper a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-25 Doha A. Rizk , Ahmed Younes

We investigate the performance of discrimination strategy in the comparison task of known quantum states. In the discrimination strategy, one infers whether or not two quantum systems are in the same state on the basis of the outcomes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 A. Hayashi , T. Hashimoto , M. Horibe

Non-orthogonal quantum states pose a fundamental challenge in quantum information processing, as they cannot be distinguished with absolute certainty. Conventionally, the focus has been on minimizing error probability in quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Ilyass Mejdoub , Julien Béguinot , Olivier Rioul

Quantum computing promises to speed up some of the most challenging problems in science and engineering. Quantum algorithms have been proposed showing theoretical advantages in applications ranging from chemistry to logistics optimization.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Niklas Heim , Atiyo Ghosh , Oleksandr Kyriienko , Vincent E. Elfving

We analyze the possibility of modifying the original Farhi-Gutmann Hamiltonian algorithm in order to speed up the procedure for producing a suitably distributed unknown normalized quantum mechanical state. Such a modification is feasible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing

It is a fundamental consequence of the superposition principle for quantum states that there must exist non-orthogonal states, that is states that, although different, have a non-zero overlap. This finite overlap means that there is no way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-14 Stephen M. Barnett , Sarah Croke

We introduce the problem of unsupervised classification of quantum data, namely, of systems whose quantum states are unknown. We derive the optimal single-shot protocol for the binary case, where the states in a disordered input array are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Gael Sentís , Alex Monràs , Ramon Muñoz-Tapia , John Calsamiglia , Emilio Bagan

It is shown using the Gross-Pitaevskii equation that resonance states of Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interactions can be stabilized into true bound states. A semiclassical variational approximation and an independent quantum…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nimrod Moiseyev , L. D. Carr , Boris A. Malomed , Y. B. Band