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Modern quantum devices are highly susceptible to errors, making the verification of their correct operation a critical problem. Usual tomographic methods rapidly become intractable as these devices are scaled up. In this paper, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Varun Upreti , Ulysse Chabaud

Self-testing is a powerful certification of quantum systems relying on measured, classical statistics. This paper considers self-testing in bipartite Bell scenarios with small number of inputs and outputs, but with quantum states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Jurij Volčič

Genuine multipartite nonlocality is a salient feature of quantum systems, empowering the security of multi-party device independent cryptographic protocols. Given a correlation, characterizing and detecting genuineness have been subjected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Some Sankar Bhattacharya , Arup Roy , Amit Mukherjee , Ramij Rahaman

Quantum tomography is a critically important tool to evaluate quantum hardware, making it essential to develop optimized measurement strategies that are both accurate and efficient. We compare a variety of strategies using nearly pure test…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 H. Sosa-Martinez , N. K. Lysne , C. H. Baldwin , A. Kalev , I. H. Deutsch , P. S. Jessen

With experimental quantum computing technologies now in their infancy, the search for efficient means of testing the correctness of these quantum computations is becoming more pressing. An approach to the verification of quantum computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Alexandru Gheorghiu , Matty J. Hoban , Elham Kashefi

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

Estimation of quantum states and measurements is crucial for the implementation of quantum information protocols. The standard method for each is quantum tomography. However, quantum tomography suffers from systematic errors caused by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Adam C. Keith , Charles H. Baldwin , Scott Glancy , E. Knill

Preparing and certifying bound entangled states in the laboratory is an intrinsically hard task, due to both the fact that they typically form narrow regions in the state space, and that a certificate requires a tomographic reconstruction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Gael Sentís , Johannes N. Greiner , Jiangwei Shang , Jens Siewert , Matthias Kleinmann

Design of detection strategies for multipartite entanglement stands as a central importance on our understanding of fundamental quantum mechanics and has had substantial impact on quantum information applications. However, accurate and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Xin-Yu Xu , Qing Zhou , Shuai Zhao , Shu-Ming Hu , Li Li , Nai-Le Liu , Kai Chen

A fundamental task in quantum information is to approximate a pure quantum state in terms of sparse states or, for a bipartite system, states of bounded Schmidt rank. The optimal deterministic approximation in each case is straightforward,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Aram W. Harrow , Angus Lowe , Freek Witteveen

The quantum entanglement as one of very important resources has been widely used in quantum information processing. In this work, we present a new kind of genuine multipartite entanglement. It is derived from special geometric feature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Ming-Xing Luo

We consider the problem of deciding if a given three-party entangled pure state can be converted, with a non-zero success probability, into a given two-party pure state through local quantum operations and classical communication. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 Eric Chitambar , Runyao Duan , Yaoyun Shi

Self-testing enables the characterization of quantum systems with minimal assumptions on their internal working as such it represents the strongest form of certification for quantum systems. In the existing self-testing literature,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Ranendu Adhikary

Characterizing large quantum systems with minimal assumptions is a central challenge in quantum information science. Self-testing provides the strongest form of certification by identifying the underlying quantum state solely from observed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Jinchang Liu , Elias X. Huber , Zhenyu Du , Xingjian Zhang , Xiongfeng Ma

Device-independent certification of quantum states enables the characterization of states within a device under minimal physical assumptions. A major problem in this regard is to certify quantum states using minimal resources. Aiming to…

Solving problems related to open quantum systems has attracted many interests. Here, we propose a variational quantum algorithm to find the steady state of open quantum systems. In this algorithm, we employ parameterized quantum circuits to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Huan-Yu Liu , Tai-Ping Sun , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

The future of quantum communication relies on quantum networks composed by observers sharing multipartite quantum states. The certification of multipartite entanglement will be crucial to the usefulness of these networks. In many real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 D. Cavalcanti , P. Skrzypczyk , G. H. Aguilar , R. V. Nery , P. H. Souto Ribeiro , S. P. Walborn

In this paper, we discuss the problem of determining whether a quantum system is in a pure state, or in a mixed state. We apply two strategies to settle this problem: the unambiguous discrimination and the maximum confidence discrimination.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chi Zhang , Guoming Wang , Mingsheng Ying

Hypergraph states are generalizations of graph states where controlled-$Z$ gates on edges are replaced with generalized controlled-$Z$ gates on hyperedges. Hypergraph states have several advantages over graph states. For example, certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Tomoyuki Morimae , Yuki Takeuchi , Masahito Hayashi

Quantum entanglement and nonlocality are inextricably linked. However, while entanglement is necessary for nonlocality, it is not always sufficient in the standard Bell scenario. We derive sufficient conditions for entanglement to give rise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-22 Patricia Contreras-Tejada , Carlos Palazuelos , Julio I. de Vicente