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We introduce an efficient algorithm for the systematic design of shallow-depth quantum circuits capable of preparing many-body quantum states represented as Matrix Product States (MPS). The proposed method leverages Schmidt spectrum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Josh Green , Joshua Snow , Jingbo B Wang

We propose a general quantum circuit based on the swap test for measuring the quantity $\langle \psi_1 | A | \psi_2 \rangle$ of an arbitrary operator $A$ with respect to two quantum states $|\psi_{1,2}\rangle$. This quantity is frequently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Ze-Hao Huang , Peng He , Li-Jun Lang , Shi-Liang Zhu

Quantum simulation of molecular electronic structure is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, achieving chemically accurate predictions for strongly correlated systems requires quantum phase estimation (QPE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Shota Kanasugi , Riki Toshio , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima

We present a method that outputs a sequence of simple unitary operations to prepare a given quantum state that is a generalized coherent state. Our method takes as inputs the expectation values of some relevant observables on the state to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Rolando D. Somma

We introduce an approximate description of an $N$-qubit state, which contains sufficient information to estimate the expectation value of any observable to a precision that is upper bounded by the ratio of a suitably-defined seminorm of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Marco Paini , Amir Kalev , Dan Padilha , Brendan Ruck

We provide modular circuit-level implementations and resource estimates for several methods of block-encoding a dense $N\times N$ matrix of classical data to precision $\epsilon$; the minimal-depth method achieves a $T$-depth of…

In this work we investigate a binned version of Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) set out by [Somma 2019] and known as the Quantum Eigenvalue Estimation Problem (QEEP). Specifically, we determine whether the circuit decomposition techniques we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Laura Clinton , Johannes Bausch , Joel Klassen , Toby Cubitt

Phase estimation is known to be a robust method for single-qubit gate calibration in quantum computers, while Bayesian estimation is widely used in devising optimal methods for learning in quantum systems. We present Bayesian phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Brennan de Neeve , Andrey V. Lebedev , Vlad Negnevitsky , Jonathan P. Home

Quantum Metrology calculates the ultimate precision of all estimation strategies, measuring what is their root mean-square error (RMSE) and their Fisher information. Here, instead, we ask how many bits of the parameter we can recover,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Lorenzo Maccone , Majid Hassani , Chiara Macchiavello

Due to its significance as a subroutine, in this work, we consider the coherent version of the quantum phase estimation problem, where given an arbitrary input state and black-box access to unitaries $U$ and controlled-$U$, the goal is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Dhrumil Patel , Shi Jie Samuel Tan , Yigit Subasi , Andrew T. Sornborger

In quantum mechanics, measuring the expectation value of a general observable has an inherent statistical uncertainty that is quantified by variance or mean squared error of measurement outcome. While the uncertainty can be reduced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Kaito Wada , Naoki Yamamoto , Nobuyuki Yoshioka

We propose a quantum-enhanced iterative (with $K$ steps) measurement scheme based on an ensemble of $N$ two-level probes which asymptotically approaches the Heisenberg limit $\delta_K \propto R^{-K/(K+1)}$, $R$ the number of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 A. V. Lebedev , P. Treutlein , G. Blatter

The intrinsic probabilistic nature of quantum systems makes error correction or mitigation indispensable for quantum computation. While current error-correcting strategies focus on correcting errors in quantum states or quantum gates, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Andrew K. Tan , Yuan Liu , Minh C. Tran , Isaac L. Chuang

The $n$-qubit $k$-weight Dicke states $|D^n_k\rangle$, defined as the uniform superposition of all computational basis states with exactly $k$ qubits in state $|1\rangle$, form a basis of the symmetric subspace and represent an important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Pei Yuan , Shengyu Zhang

While quantum algorithms for simulation exhibit better asymptotic scaling than their classical counterparts, they currently cannot be implemented on real-world devices. Instead, chemists and computer scientists rely on costly classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Christopher Kang , Nicholas P. Bauman , Sriram Krishnamoorthy , Karol Kowalski

Developing methods to solve nuclear many-body problems with quantum computers is an imperative pursuit within the nuclear physics community. Here, we introduce a quantum algorithm to accurately and precisely compute the ground state of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-11 Sota Yoshida , Takeshi Sato , Takumi Ogata , Tomoya Naito , Masaaki Kimura

In quantum computation, amplitude estimation is a fundamental subroutine that is utilized in various quantum algorithms. A general important task of such estimation problems is to characterize the estimation lower bound, which is referred…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Kohei Oshio , Yohichi Suzuki , Kaito Wada , Keigo Hisanaga , Shumpei Uno , Naoki Yamamoto

Direct fidelity estimation is a protocol that estimates the fidelity between an experimental quantum state and a target pure state. By measuring the expectation values of Pauli operators selected through importance sampling, the method is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Júlia Barberà-Rodríguez , Mariana Navarro , Leonardo Zambrano

We describe algorithms to obtain an approximate classical description of a $d$-dimensional quantum state when given access to a unitary (and its inverse) that prepares it. For pure states we characterize the query complexity for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Joran van Apeldoorn , Arjan Cornelissen , András Gilyén , Giacomo Nannicini

We study the problem of estimating frequency response functions of systems of coupled, classical harmonic oscillators using a quantum computer. The functional form of these response functions can be mapped to a corresponding eigenproblem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Sven Danz , Mario Berta , Stefan Schröder , Pascal Kienast , Frank K. Wilhelm , Alessandro Ciani