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A fundamental task in quantum information science is state certification: testing whether a lab-prepared $n$-qubit state is close to a given hypothesis state. In this work, we show that every pure hypothesis state can be certified using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Meghal Gupta , William He , Ryan O'Donnell

Recently, tremendous progress has been made in the field of quantum science and technologies: different platforms for quantum simulation as well as quantum computing, ranging from superconducting qubits to neutral atoms, are starting to…

We develop a scheme to prepare a desired state or subspace in high-dimensional Hilbert-spaces using repeated applications of a single static projection operator onto the desired target and fixed unitary dynamics. Benchmarks against other…

Quantum state tomography is an important tool for quantum communication, computation, metrology, and simulation. Efficient quantum state tomography on a high dimensional quantum system is still a challenging problem. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Ruifeng Liu , Junling Long , Pei Zhang , Russell E. Lake , Hong Gao , David P. Pappas , Fuli Li

Self-testing is a method of quantum state and measurement estimation that does not rely on assumptions about the inner working of the used devices. Its experimental realization has been limited to sources producing single quantum states so…

In this work, we consider the fundamental task of quantum state certification: given copies of an unknown quantum state $\rho$, test whether it matches some target state $\sigma$ or is $\epsilon$-far from it. For certifying $d$-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Chirag Wadhwa , Sitan Chen

This paper provides a stabilizing preparation method for quantum Gaussian states by utilizing continuous measurement. The stochastic evolution of the open quantum system is described in terms of the quantum stochastic master equation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Liying Bao , Bo Qi , Daoyi Dong

In this report we study certification of quantum measurements, which can be viewed as the extension of quantum hypotheses testing. This extension involves also the study of the input state and the measurement procedure. Here, we will be…

We construct optimal protocols for verifying qubit and qudit GHZ states using local projective measurements. When the local dimension is a prime, an optimal protocol is constructed from Pauli measurements only. Our protocols provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Zihao Li , Yun-Guang Han , Huangjun Zhu

The geometry of quantum states provides a unifying framework for estimation processes based on quantum probes, and it allows to derive the ultimate bounds of the achievable precision. We show a relation between the statistical distance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Paolo Giorda , Michele Allegra

The exponential growth in Hilbert space with increasing size of a quantum system means that accurately characterising the system becomes significantly harder with system dimension d. We show that self-guided tomography is a practical,…

Finding ways to test the behaviour of quantum devices is a timely enterprise, especially in the light of the rapid development of quantum technologies. Device-independent self-testing is one desirable approach, as it makes minimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Ivan Šupić , Andrea Coladangelo , Remigiusz Augusiak , Antonio Acín

The projected ensemble is based on the study of the quantum state of a subsystem $A$ conditioned on projective measurements in its complement. Recent studies have observed that a more refined measure of the thermalization of a chaotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Amos Chan , Andrea De Luca

This expository article gives an overview of the theory of hypothesis testing of quantum states in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. Optimal measurement strategy for testing binary quantum hypotheses, which result in minimum error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 J. Prabhu Tej , Syed Raunaq Ahmed , A. R. Usha Devi , A. K. Rajagopal

In the device-independent quantum information approach, the implementation of a given task can be self-tested solely from the recorded statistics and without detailed models for the employed devices. Even though experimentally demanding, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Máté Farkas , Nayda Guerrero , Jaime Cariñe , Gustavo Cañas , Gustavo Lima

We consider the problem of determining the mixed quantum state of a large but finite number of identically prepared quantum systems from data obtained in a sequence of ideal (von Neumann) measurements, each performed on an individual copy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Franz Embacher , Heide Narnhofer

We investigate optimal discrimination between two projective quantum measurements on a single qubit. We consider scenario where the measurement that should be identified can be performed twice and we show that adaptive discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jaromir Fiurasek , Michal Micuda

Self-testing refers to the possibility of characterizing uniquely (up to local isometries) the state and measurements contained in quantum devices, based only on the observed input-output statistics. Already in the basic case of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-29 Yukun Wang , Xingyao Wu , Valerio Scarani

We extend quantum state tomography with minimal cumulative disturbance, first investigated in [arXiv:2406.18370], to arbitrary finite-dimensional pure states. A learner sequentially receives fresh copies of an unknown pure state, chooses a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Josep Lumbreras , Marco Tomamichel

Quantum systems of high dimensions are attracting a lot of attention because they feature interesting properties when it comes to observing entanglement or other forms of correlations. In particular, their improved resistance to noise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Sébastien Designolle