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We provide a reformulation of finite dimensional quantum theory in the circuit framework in terms of mathematical axioms, and a reconstruction of quantum theory from operational postulates. The mathematical axioms for quantum theory are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 Lucien Hardy

We develop a formula to evaluate the purity of a series of thermal equilibrium states that can be calculated in numerical experiments without knowing the exact form of the quantum state \textit{a priori}. Canonical typicality guarantees…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-13 Atsushi Iwaki , Chisa Hotta

Topological phases of matter offer a promising platform for quantum computation and quantum error correction. Nevertheless, unlike its counterpart in pure states, descriptions of topological order in mixed states remain relatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Zhuan Li , Roger S. K. Mong

The debate on the nature of quantum probabilities in relation to Quantum Non Locality has elevated Quantum Mechanics to the level of an "Operational Epistemic Theory". In such context the quantum superposition principle has an extraneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

Since masking of quantum information was introduced by Modi et al. in [PRL 120, 230501 (2018)], many discussions on this topic have been published. In this paper, we consider relationship between quantum multipartite maskers (QMMs) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Huaixin Cao , Yuxing Du , Zhihua Guo , Kanyuan Han , Chuan Yan

It is usually believed that a picture of Quantum Mechanics in terms of true probabilities cannot be given due to the uncertainty relations. Here we discuss a tomographic approach to quantum states that leads to a probability representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michele Caponigro , Stefano Mancini , Vladimir I. Man'ko

In a previous preprint (quant-ph/0012122) we introduced a ``contextual objectivity" formulation of quantum mechanics (QM). A central feature of this approach is to define the quantum state in physical rather than in mathematical terms, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Philippe Grangier

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

The quantum nature of bulk ensemble NMR quantum computing --the center of recent heated debate, is addressed. Concepts of the mixed state and entanglement are examined, and the data in a 2 qubit liquid NMR quantum computation are analyzed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G L Long , H Y Yan , Y s Li , C C Tu , s J Zhu , D Ruan , Y Sun , J X Tao , H M Chen

We introduce new formulations of the quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (QCRB) and the Holevo Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (HCRB) in multi-parameter quantum metrology via purification, where we show their values for any mixed state are connected to that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Sisi Zhou

A decade ago, Isham and Butterfield proposed a topos-theoretic approach to quantum mechanics, which meanwhile has been extended by Doering and Isham so as to provide a new mathematical foundation for all of physics. Last year, three of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-12 Martijn Caspers , Chris Heunen , Nicolaas P. Landsman , Bas Spitters

Proposals for nonlinear extenstions of quantum mechanics are discussed. Two different concepts of "mixed state" for any nonlinear version of quantum theory are introduced: (i) >genuine mixture< corresponds to operational "mixing" of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 Pavel Bona

Using the existing classification of all alternatives to the measurement postulates of quantum theory we study the properties of bi-partite systems in these alternative theories. We prove that in all these theories the purification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Thomas D. Galley , Lluis Masanes

In this paper we give a method to associate a graph with an arbitrary density matrix referred to a standard orthonormal basis in the Hilbert space of a finite dimensional quantum system. We study the related issues like classification of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Ali Saif M. Hassan , Pramod Joag

The development of the new logic of partitions (= equivalence relations) dual to the usual Boolean logic of subsets, and its quantitative version as the new logical theory of information provide the basic mathematical concepts to describe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 David Ellerman

Our aim in this paper is to take quite seriously Heinz Post's claim that the non-individuality and the indiscernibility of quantum objects should be introduced right at the start, and not made a posteriori by introducing symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Domenech , F. Holik , D. Krause

In bulk quantum computation one can manipulate a large number of indistinguishable quantum computers by parallel unitary operations and measure expectation values of certain observables with limited sensitivity. The initial state of each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Emanuel Knill , Isaac Chuang , Raymond Laflamme

Quantum mechanics can emerge from classical statistics. A typical quantum system describes an isolated subsystem of a classical statistical ensemble with infinitely many classical states. The state of this subsystem can be characterized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Wetterich

Impressive progress has been made in the past decade in the study of technological applications of varied types of quantum systems. With industry giants like IBM laying down their roadmap for scalable quantum devices with more than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Rishabh Gupta , Sabre Kais , Raphael D. Levine

In this paper we propose the idea that there is a corresponding relation between quantum states and points of the complex projective space, given that the number of dimensions of the Hilbert space is finite. We check this idea through…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bei Jia , Xi-guo Lee