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We consider the problem of learning the Hamiltonian of a quantum system from estimates of Gibbs-state expectation values. Various methods for achieving this task were proposed recently, both from a practical and theoretical point of view.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Adam Artymowicz , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Samuel O. Scalet

We investigate the computational power of creating steady-states of quantum dissipative systems whose evolution is governed by time-independent and local couplings to a memoryless environment. We show that such a model allows for efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Frank Verstraete , Michael M. Wolf , J. Ignacio Cirac

Quantum state verification (QSV) is the task of relying on local measurements only to verify that a given quantum device does produce the desired target state. Up to now, certain types of entangled states can be verified efficiently or even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Ye-Chao Liu , Yinfei Li , Jiangwei Shang , Xiangdong Zhang

We prove classical simulation hardness, under the generalized $\mathsf{P}\neq\mathsf{NP}$ conjecture, for quantum circuit families with applications in near-term chemical ground state estimation. The proof exploits a connection to particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Oskar Leimkuhler , K. Birgitta Whaley

In this work, we analyze the local certification of unitary quantum channels, which is a natural extension of quantum hypothesis testing. A particular case of a quantum channel operating on two systems corresponding to product states at the…

The demonstration of quantum speedup, also known as quantum computational supremacy, that is the ability of quantum computers to outperform dramatically their classical counterparts, is an important milestone in the field of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Ulysse Chabaud , Frédéric Grosshans , Elham Kashefi , Damian Markham

As research on building scalable quantum computers advances, it is important to be able to certify their correctness. Due to the exponential hardness of classically simulating quantum computation, straight-forward verification through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Iskren Vankov , Daniel Mills , Petros Wallden , Elham Kashefi

Quantum processors are now able to run quantum circuits that are infeasible to simulate classically, creating a need for benchmarks that assess a quantum processor's rate of errors when running these circuits. Here, we introduce a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Jordan Hines , Timothy Proctor

A central task in quantum information science is state certification: testing whether an unknown state is $\epsilon_1$-close to a fixed target state, or $\epsilon_2$-far. Recent work has shown that surprisingly simple measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Andrea Coladangelo , Jerry Li , Joseph Slote , Ellen Wu

In Ref. [Phys. Rev. A 100, 062317 (2019)], the authors reported an algorithm to implement, in a circuit-based quantum computer, a general quantum measurement (GQM) of a two-level quantum system, a qubit. Even though their algorithm seems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Douglas F. Pinto , Marcelo S. Zanetti , Marcos L. W. Basso , Jonas Maziero

Quantum computing employs controllable interactions to perform sequences of logical gates and entire algorithms on quantum registers. This paradigm has been widely explored, e.g., for simulating dynamics of manybody systems by decomposing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , Alireza Tavanfar , K. Mölmer , T. Ala-Nissila

We present the first protocol allowing a classical computer to interactively verify the result of an efficient quantum computation. We achieve this by constructing a measurement protocol, which enables a classical verifier to use a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Urmila Mahadev

We present a practical course targeting graduate students with prior knowledge of the basics of quantum computing. The practical aims to deepen students' understanding of fundamental concepts in quantum computing by implementing quantum…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-24 Florian Krötz , Xiao-Ting Michelle To , Korbinian Staudacher , Dieter Kranzlmüller

Efficient verification of multipartite quantum states is crucial to many applications in quantum information processing. By virtue of Schmidt decomposition and mutually unbiased bases, here we propose a universal protocol to verify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Yunting Li , Huangjun Zhu

Achieving noise resilience is an outstanding challenge in Hamiltonian-based quantum computation. To this end, energy-gap protection provides a promising approach, where the desired quantum dynamics are encoded into the ground space of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Yingkang Cao , Suying Liu , Haowei Deng , Zihan Xia , Xiaodi Wu , Yu-Xin Wang

In order to guarantee the output of a quantum computation, we usually assume that the component devices are trusted. However, when the total computation process is large, it is not easy to guarantee the whole system when we have scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Masahito Hayashi , Michal Hajdusek

A central result in the study of Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity is that the k-Local hamiltonian problem is QMA-complete. In that problem, we must decide if the lowest eigenvalue of a Hamiltonian is bounded below some value, or above…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Naïri Usher , Matty J. Hoban , Dan E. Browne

Analog quantum simulation is expected to be a significant application of near-term quantum devices. Verification of these devices without comparison to known simulation results will be an important task as the system size grows beyond the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Ryan Shaffer , Eli Megidish , Joseph Broz , Wei-Ting Chen , Hartmut Häffner

Various techniques have been used in recent years for verifying quantum computers, that is, for determining whether a quantum computer/system satisfies a given formal specification of correctness. Barrier certificates are a recent novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Marco Lewis , Paolo Zuliani , Sadegh Soudjani

Precise control of quantum systems with a moderate number of degrees of freedom, being of interest for application in quantum technologies, becomes experimentally feasible. Various types of quantum scenarios and protocols are being widely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 P. V. Pyshkin , E. Ya. Sherman , A. Gábris , Lian-Ao Wu