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We use a Quantum Extreme Learning Machine for characterizing and estimating parameters of quantum dynamics generated by a tunable collision model. The input to the learning protocol consists of quantum states produced by successive system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Hajar Assil , Abderrahim El Allati , Gian Luca Giorgi

We investigate the conditions under which an uncontrollable background processes may be harnessed by an agent to perform a task that would otherwise be impossible within their operational framework. This situation can be understood from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Graeme D. Berk , Andrew J. P. Garner , Benjamin Yadin , Kavan Modi , Felix A. Pollock

Memory is often defined as the mental capacity of retaining information about facts, events, procedures and more generally about any type of previous experience. Memories are remembered as long as they influence our thoughts, feelings, and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-16 Stefano Fusi

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) harnesses driven quantum dynamics for time-series processing, yet the mechanisms behind the differing performance levels across its many implementations remain unclear. We show that apparently unrelated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Saud Čindrak , Lara Giebeler , Niclas Götting , Christopher Gies , Kathy Lüdge

Quantum information-processing techniques enable work extraction from a system's inherently quantum features, in addition to the classical free energy it contains. Meanwhile, the science of computational mechanics affords tools for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Ruo Cheng Huang , Paul M. Riechers , Mile Gu , Varun Narasimhachar

We discuss experimental situations that consist of multiple preparation and measurement stages. This leads us to a new approach to quantum mechanics. In particular, we introduce the idea of multi-time quantum states which are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Y. Aharonov , S. Popescu , J. Tollaksen , L. Vaidman

Memory is an indispensable component in classical computing systems. While the development of quantum computing is still in its early stages, current quantum processing units mainly function as quantum registers. Consequently, the actual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Chenxu Liu , Meng Wang , Samuel A. Stein , Yufei Ding , Ang Li

Quantum memories are regarded as one of the fundamental building blocks of linear-optical quantum computation and long-distance quantum communication. A long standing goal to realize scalable quantum information processing is to build a…

We introduce ways to measure information storage in quantum systems, using a recently introduced computation-theoretic model that accounts for measurement effects. The first, the quantum excess entropy, quantifies the shared information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 James P. Crutchfield , Karoline Wiesner

Scrambling quantum systems have attracted attention as effective substrates for temporal information processing. Here we consider a quantum reservoir processing framework that captures a broad range of physical computing models with quantum…

Learning about physical systems from quantum-enhanced experiments, relying on a quantum memory and quantum processing, can outperform learning from experiments in which only classical memory and processing are available. Whereas quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Matthias C. Caro

The non-Markovian nature of open quantum dynamics lies in the structure of the multitime correlations, which are accessible by means of interventions. Here, by examining multitime correlations, we show that it is possible to engineer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Daniel Burgarth , Paolo Facchi , Davide Lonigro , Kavan Modi

Quantum metrology is a rapidly developing branch of quantum technologies. While various theories have been established on quantum metrology for Markovian processes, i.e., quantum channel estimation, quantum metrology for non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anian Altherr , Yuxiang Yang

Starting from a generalization of the quantum trajectory theory (based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation - SSE), non-Markovian models of quantum dynamics are derived. In order to describe non-Markovian effects, the approach used in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 A. Barchielli , C. Pellegrini , F. Petruccione

In quantum information processing quantum operations are often processed alongside measurements which result in classical data. Due to the information gain of classical measurement outputs non-unitary dynamical processes can take place on…

Temporal correlations are fundamental in quantum physics, yet their computation is often challenging. The regression theorem (or hypothesis) serves as a key tool in this context, offering a seemingly straightforward approach. However, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Leonardo Santos , Otfried Gühne , Stefan Nimmrichter

We introduce a general scheme for sequential one-way quantum computation where static systems with long-living quantum coherence (memories) interact with moving systems that may possess very short coherence times. Both the generation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Augusto J. Roncaglia , Leandro Aolita , Alessandro Ferraro , Antonio Acin

The problem concerning the minimum time for an initial state to evolve up to a target state plays an important role in the Classic Optimal Control theory. In the quantum context, as quantum states are so sensitive to environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Alexandre Coutinho Lisboa , Jose Roberto Castilho Piqueira

We consider a stochastic process which is (a) described by a continuous-time Markov chain on only short time-scales and (b) constrained to conserve a number of hidden quantities on long time-scales. We assume that the transition matrix of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-27 Vitaly Vanchurin

Quantum thermodynamics studies how quantum systems and operations may be exploited as sources of work to perform useful thermodynamic tasks. In real-world conditions, the evolution of open quantum systems typically displays memory effects,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Guilherme Zambon , Gerardo Adesso