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We present a deterministic optimization framework for Neural Network Quantum States (NQS) designed to bypass the sampling variance and slow mixing issues inherent in stochastic optimization. By projecting a neural backflow ansatz onto…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zheng Che

The classification of anomalies or sudden changes in power networks versus normal abrupt changes or switching actions is essential to take appropriate maintenance actions that guarantee the quality of power delivery. This issue has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-15 Hamid Khodabandehlou , Iman Niazazari , Hanif Livani , M. Sami Fadali

Quantum state discrimination involves identifying a given state out of a set of possible states. When the states are mutually orthogonal, perfect state discrimination is always possible using a global measurement. In the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Scott M. Cohen

The task of changing the overlap between two quantum states can not be performed by making use of a unitary evolution only. However, by means of a unitary-reduction process it can be probabilistically modified. Here we study in detail the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-13 Luis Roa , A. Delgado , M. L. Ladron de Guevara

Quantum state learning is a fundamental problem in physics and computer science. As near-term quantum devices are error-prone, it is important to design error-resistant algorithms. Apart from device errors, other unexpected factors could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Vladimir Braverman , Nai-Hui Chia , Yuhan Liu

We consider the problem of discrimination between two pure quantum states. It is well known that the optimal measurement under both the error-probability and log-loss criteria is a projection, while under an ``erasure-distortion'' criterion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Itamar Katz , Alex Samorodnitsky , Yuval Kochman

We study a variant of quantum hypothesis testing wherein an additional 'inconclusive' measurement outcome is added, allowing one to abstain from attempting to discriminate the hypotheses. The error probabilities are then conditioned on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Bartosz Regula , Ludovico Lami , Mark M. Wilde

Using the convex optimization method and Helstrom family of ensembles introduced in Ref. [1], we have discussed optimal ambiguous discrimination in qubit systems. We have analyzed the problem of the optimal discrimination of N known quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-26 M. A. Jafarizadeh , Y. Mazhari , M. Aali

Enhancing quantum illumination with highly entangled probes remains an active area of research. In this context, non-Gaussian operations provide an effective route for engineering probe states that can surpass the standard two-mode squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Luis D. Zambrano Palma , Yusef Maleki , M. Suhail Zubairy

Unambiguously distinguishing between nonorthogonal but linearly independent quantum states is a challenging problem in quantum information processing. In this work, an exact analytic solution to an optimum measurement problem involving an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Jafarizadeh , M. Rezaei , N. Karimi , A. R. Amiri

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

We introduce a tunable framework for generalized quantum state discrimination (GSD) and apply it to quantum key distribution (QKD) through a protocol we call phiQKD. Building upon the two-state B92 protocol, phiQKD replaces the traditional…

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

Quantum discrimination and estimation are pivotal for many quantum technologies, and their performance depends on the optimal choice of probe state and measurement. Here we show that their performance can be further improved by suitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Daniel Basilewitsch , Haidong Yuan , Christiane P. Koch

Recent advances have demonstrated that $\mathcal{O}(\log M)$ measurements suffice to predict $M$ properties of arbitrarily large quantum many-body systems. However, these remarkable findings assume that the properties to be predicted are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jerry Huang , Laura Lewis , Hsin-Yuan Huang , John Preskill

The separability detecting problem of mixed states is one of the fundamental problems in quantum information theory. In the last 20 years, almost all methods are based on the sufficient or necessary conditions for entanglement. However, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Ying Li , Guyan Ni

The success of quantum information processing applications relies on accurate and efficient characterization of quantum states, especially nearly-pure states. In this work, we investigate a procedure for adaptive qubit state tomography…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Aonan Zhang , Yujie Zhang , Feixiang Xu , Long Li , Lijian Zhang

We discuss the following variant of the standard minimum error state discrimination problem: Alice picks the state she sends to Bob among one of several disjoint state ensembles, and she communicates him the chosen ensemble only at a later…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Claudio Carmeli , Teiko Heinosaari , Alessandro Toigo

Quantum tomography has become a key tool for the assessment of quantum states, processes, and devices. This drives the search for tomographic methods that achieve greater accuracy. In the case of mixed states of a single 2-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Leonardo Zambrano , Luciano Pereira , Sebastian Niklitschek , Aldo Delgado

Many prominent quantum computing algorithms with applications in fields such as chemistry and materials science require a large number of measurements, which represents an important roadblock for future real-world use cases. We introduce a…