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We show that approximating the trace norm contraction coefficient of a quantum channel within a constant factor is NP-hard. Equivalently, this shows that determining the optimal success probability for encoding a bit in a quantum system…

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Fragile quantum features such as entanglement are employed to improve the precision of parameter estimation and as a consequence the quantum gain becomes vulnerable to noise. As an established tool to subdue noise, quantum error correction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Xiao-Ming Lu , Sixia Yu , C. H. Oh

A pivotal task in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to de- sign schemes that achieve the highest precision with given resources. Standard models of quantum metrology usually assume the dynamics is fixed, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

Permitting the transmission of unknown quantum states over long distances by using entanglement, quantum teleportation serves as an important building block for many quantum technologies. However, in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Zi-Jian Xu , Jun-Hong An

Recent advancements in quantum computing highlight the need for efficient encoding of classical data into quantum states to ensure robust quantum information processing. Traditional encoding schemes often impose impractical requirements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Hyunho Cha , Wonjung Kim , Jungwoo Lee

We examine the transformation of noise under a quantum error correcting code (QECC) concatenated repeatedly with itself, by analyzing the effects of a quantum channel after each level of concatenation using recovery operators that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-27 Jesse Fern

We investigate the limits of thermometry using quantum probes at thermal equilibrium within the Bayesian approach. We consider the possibility of engineering interactions between the probes in order to enhance their sensitivity, as well as…

Quantum systems used for metrology can offer enhanced precision over their classical counterparts. The design of quantum sensors can be optimized by maximizing the quantum Fisher information (QFI), which characterizes the precision of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 George Mihailescu , Anthony Kiely , Andrew K. Mitchell

This paper considers a sequential estimation and sensor scheduling problem with one sensor and one estimator. The sensor makes sequential observations about the state of an underlying memoryless stochastic process, and makes a decision as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

In this work, we introduce a comprehensive statistical framework for assessing single-qubit quantum teleportation performance beyond the conventional average-fidelity benchmark. At first, we derive a closed-form expression for the full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 D. G. Bussandri , G. M. Bosyk , P. Crespo Del Amo , K. Życzkowski

Quantum state estimation is important for various quantum information processes, including quantum communications, computation, and metrology, which require the characterization of quantum states for evaluation and optimization. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 C. Vargas , L. Pereira , A. Delgado

Variational hybrid quantum-classical optimization represents one of the most promising avenue to show the advantage of nowadays noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers in solving hard problems, such as finding the minimum-energy state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Laura Gentini , Alessandro Cuccoli , Stefano Pirandola , Paola Verrucchi , Leonardo Banchi

We introduce a new quantum noise deconvolution technique that does not rely on the complete knowledge of noise and does not require partial noise tomography. In this new method, we construct a set of observables with completely correctable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Nahid Ahmadvand , Laleh Memarzadeh

Quantum metrology has many important applications in science and technology, ranging from frequency spectroscopy to gravitational wave detection. Quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental limit on measurement precision, called the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Sisi Zhou , Mengzhen Zhang , John Preskill , Liang Jiang

Quantum metrology aims to exploit quantum phenomena to overcome classical limitations in the estimation of relevant parameters. We consider a probe undergoing a phase shift $\varphi$ whose generator is randomly sampled according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Rozhin Yousefjani , Rosanna Nichols , Shahriar Salimi , Gerardo Adesso

We establish fundamental limits on estimation accuracy for the noisy 20 questions problem with measurement-dependent noise and introduce optimal non-adaptive procedures that achieve these limits. The minimal achievable resolution is defined…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Lin Zhou , Alfred Hero

One of the fundamental tasks in quantum information processing is to measure the quantum channels. Similar to measurements of quantum states, measurements of quantum channels are inherently stochastic, that is, quantum theory provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Taihei Kimoto , Takayuki Miyadera

Coping with noise in quantum computation poses significant challenges due to its unpredictable nature and the complexities of accurate modeling. This paper presents noise-adaptive folding, a technique that enhances zero-noise extrapolation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Kathrin F. Koenig , Finn Reinecke , Thomas Wellens

A switched quantum channel with indefinite causal order is studied for the fundamental metrological task of phase estimation on a qubit unitary operator affected by quantum thermal noise. Specific capabilities are reported in the switched…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 Francois Chapeau-Blondeau

Motivated by the application of point-to-point communication networks and biological storage, we investigate new achievability bounds for noisy permutation channels with strictly positive and full-rank square matrices. Our new bounds use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Lugaoze Feng , Xunan Li , Guocheng Lv , Ye jin