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The performance of a quantum information processing protocol is ultimately judged by distinguishability measures that quantify how distinguishable the actual result of the protocol is from the ideal case. The most prominent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Soorya Rethinasamy , Rochisha Agarwal , Kunal Sharma , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum state tomography is a fundamental tool in quantum information processing. It allows us to estimate the state of a quantum system by measuring different observables on many identically prepared copies of the system. This is, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Carlos A. Riofrío

We describe generalizations of the Pauli group, the Clifford group and stabilizer states for qudits in a Hilbert space of arbitrary dimension d. We examine a link with modular arithmetic, which yields an efficient way of representing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Erik Hostens , Jeroen Dehaene , Bart De Moor

The method of quantum tomography, which allows us to track with high accuracy the evolution of multilevel quantum systems (qudits) in Hilbert spaces of various dimensions is presented. The developed algorithms for quantum control are based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Yu. I. Bogdanov , N. A. Bogdanova , Yu. A. Kuznetsov , V. F. Lukichev

We consider how the theory of optimal quantum measurements determines the maximum information available to the receiving party of a quantum key distribution (QKD) system employing linearly independent but non-orthogonal quantum states. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 Isabella Cerutti , Petra F. Scudo

Quantum state tomography (QST) is a fundamental task in quantum information science that aims to reconstruct unknown quantum states from measurement data. However, the exponential growth of Hilbert-space dimension with system size makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Zhen Qin , Michael B. Wakin , Zhihui Zhu

In this work, we consider optimal state discrimination for a quantum system that interacts with an environment, i.e., states evolve under a quantum channel. We show the conditions on a quantum channel and an ensemble of states such that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Spiros Kechrimparis , Tanmay Singal , Chahan M. Kropf , Joonwoo Bae

Similarly to quantum states, also quantum measurements can be "mixed", corresponding to a random choice within an ensemble of measuring apparatuses. Such mixing is equivalent to a sort of hidden variable, which produces a noise of purely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Paoloplacido Lo Presti , Paolo Perinotti

A central challenge in quantum metrology is identifying optimal measurements that saturate the quantum Cramer-Rao bound under realistic constraints, e.g., local measurements. We show that symmetries of the probe state provide a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jia-Xuan Liu , Hai-Long Shi , Chunfeng Wu , Sixia Yu

The standard approach to quantum measurement discrimination is to perform the given unknown measurement on a probe state, possibly entangled with an auxiliary system, and make a decision based on the measurement outcome obtained. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Charbel Eid , Marco Túlio Quintino

Qubit-resolved operations and measurements are required for most current quantum information processing schemes. However, these operations can be experimentally costly due to the need for local addressing, demanding significant classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Liang Mao , Yifei Wang , Yingfei Gu , Chengshu Li

We study the distinguishability of bipartite quantum states by Positive Operator-Valued Measures with positive partial transpose (PPT POVMs). The contributions of this paper include: (1). We give a negative answer to an open problem of [M.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Nengkun Yu , Runyao Duan , Mingsheng Ying

Stabilizer states are fundamental families of quantum states with crucial applications such as error correction, quantum computation, and simulation of quantum circuits. In this paper, we study the problem of testing how close or far a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Saeed Mehraban , Mehrdad Tahmasbi

Identification of nonorthogonal quantum states without error is crucial for various applications in quantum information technology, as well as the foundations of quantum physics. Theoretical studies have proposed measurements that maximize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Kang-Min Hu , Min Namkung , Myung-Hyun Sohn , Hyang-Tag Lim

Quantum fidelity is a measure to quantify the closeness of two quantum states. In an operational sense, it is defined as the minimal overlap between the probability distributions of measurement outcomes and the minimum is taken over all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Changhun Oh , Changhyoup Lee , Leonardo Banchi , Su-Yong Lee , Carsten Rockstuhl , Hyunseok Jeong

We explore the intersection of studies in quantum error correction and quantum local operations and classical communication (LOCC). We consider one-way LOCC measurement protocols as quantum channels and investigate their error correction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 David Kribs , Comfort Mintah , Michael Nathanson , Rajesh Pereira

Tensor network methods leverage the limited entanglement of quantum states to efficiently simulate many-body systems. Alternatively, Clifford circuits provide a framework for handling highly entangled stabilizer states, which have low magic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Sergi Masot-Llima , Piotr Sierant , Paolo Stornati , Artur Garcia-Saez

Quantum coherence is one of the most significant theories in quantum physics. Ordering states with various coherence measures is an intriguing task in quantification theory of coherence. In this paper, we study this problem by use of four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Long-Mei Yang , Bin Chen , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of learning an unknown quantum circuit of a certain structure. If the unknown target is an $n$-qubit Clifford circuit, we devise an efficient algorithm to reconstruct its circuit representation by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Ching-Yi Lai , Hao-Chung Cheng

Understanding what can be learned from experiments is central to scientific progress. In this work, we use a learning-theoretic perspective to study the task of learning physical operations in a quantum machine when all operations (state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Hsin-Yuan Huang , Steven T. Flammia , John Preskill