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For quantum state tomography on rank-$r$ dimension-$d$ states, we show that $\widetilde{O}(r^{.5}d^{1.5}/\epsilon) \leq \widetilde{O}(d^2/\epsilon)$ copies suffice for accuracy~$\epsilon$ with respect to (Bures) $\chi^2$-divergence, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Steven T. Flammia , Ryan O'Donnell

Quantum state and process tomography are typically analyzed under the assumption that devices emit independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) states or channels. In realistic experiments, however, noise, drift, feedback, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Leonardo Zambrano

In this work we are interested the problem of testing quantum entanglement. More specifically, we study the separability problem in quantum property testing, where one is given $n$ copies of an unknown mixed quantum state $\varrho$ on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Costin Bădescu , Ryan O'Donnell

Pauli Measurements are the most important measurements in both theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum information science. In this paper, we explore the power of Pauli measurements in the state tomography related problems. Firstly,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Nengkun Yu

We consider a fundamental task in quantum information theory, estimating the values of $\operatorname{tr}(O\rho)$, $\operatorname{tr}(O\rho^2)$, ..., $\operatorname{tr}(O\rho^k)$ for an observable $O$ and a quantum state $\rho$. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Kean Chen , Qisheng Wang , Zhan Yu , Zhicheng Zhang

We present a two-step protocol for quantum measurement tomography that is light on classical co-processing cost and still achieves optimal sample complexity in the system dimension. Given measurement data from a known probe state ensemble,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Leonardo Zambrano , Sergi Ramos-Calderer , Richard Kueng

How many copies of a quantum process are necessary and sufficient to construct an approximate classical description of it? We extend the result of Surawy-Stepney, Kahn, Kueng, and Guta (2022) to show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Aadil Oufkir

Quantum state tomography is the problem of estimating a given quantum state. Usually, it is required to run the quantum experiment - state preparation, state evolution, measurement - several times to be able to estimate the output quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Shibdas Roy , Filippo Caruso , Srushti Patil , Anumita Mukhopadhyay

As often emerges in various basic quantum properties such as R\'enyi and Tsallis entropies, the trace of quantum state powers $\text{tr}(\rho^q)$ has attracted a lot of attention. The recent work of Liu and Wang (SODA 2025) showed that,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Kean Chen , Yupan Liu , Qisheng Wang

The computation of \(\operatorname{tr}(AB)\) is essential in quantum science and artificial intelligence, yet classical methods for \( d \)-dimensional matrices \( A \) and \( B \) require \( O(d^2) \) complexity, which becomes infeasible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Yu Wang

The estimation of high dimensional quantum states is an important statistical problem arising in current quantum technology applications. A key example is the tomography of multiple ions states, employed in the validation of state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Cristina Butucea , Madalin Guta , Theodore Kypraios

Suppose we have many copies of an unknown $n$-qubit state $\rho$. We measure some copies of $\rho$ using a known two-outcome measurement $E_{1}$, then other copies using a measurement $E_{2}$, and so on. At each stage $t$, we generate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Scott Aaronson , Xinyi Chen , Elad Hazan , Satyen Kale , Ashwin Nayak

Quantum state tomography is a fundamental problem in quantum computing. Given $n$ copies of an unknown $N$-qubit state $\rho \in \mathbb{C}^{d \times d},d=2^N$, the goal is to learn the state up to an accuracy $\epsilon$ in trace distance,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Jayadev Acharya , Abhilash Dharmavarapu , Yuhan Liu , Nengkun Yu

In this short note we show that the ensemble $\{O \vert 0\rangle \langle 0 \vert O^\top \ \vert \ O \in \mathbb{O(d)}\}$, where $O$ is drawn from the Haar measure on $\mathbb{O}(d)$ cannot be distinguished from $t$ copies of a Haar random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Louis Schatzki

There has been significant interest in understanding how practical constraints on contemporary quantum devices impact the complexity of quantum learning. For the classic question of tomography, recent work tightly characterized the copy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Sitan Chen , Jerry Li , Allen Liu

Quantum state tomography, the ability to deduce the state of a quantum system from measured data, is the gold standard for verification and benchmarking of quantum devices. It has been realized in systems with few components, but for larger…

We show that $\Omega(rd/\epsilon)$ copies of an unknown rank-$r$, dimension-$d$ quantum mixed state are necessary in order to learn a classical description with $1 - \epsilon$ fidelity. This improves upon the tomography lower bounds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Henry Yuen

We study quantum state testing where the goal is to test whether $\rho=\rho_0\in\mathbb{C}^{d\times d}$ or $\|\rho-\rho_0\|_1>\varepsilon$, given $n$ copies of $\rho$ and a known state description $\rho_0$. In practice, not all measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Yuhan Liu , Jayadev Acharya

We establish methods for quantum state tomography based on compressed sensing. These methods are specialized for quantum states that are fairly pure, and they offer a significant performance improvement on large quantum systems. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 David Gross , Yi-Kai Liu , Steven T. Flammia , Stephen Becker , Jens Eisert

We study the estimation of an unknown quantum channel $\mathcal{E}$ with input dimension $d_1$, output dimension $d_2$ and Kraus rank at most $r$. We establish a connection between the query complexities in two models: (i) access to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kean Chen , Nengkun Yu , Zhicheng Zhang