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The task of learning a quantum circuit to prepare a given mixed state is a fundamental quantum subroutine. We present a variational quantum algorithm (VQA) to learn mixed states which is suitable for near-term hardware. Our algorithm…

The determination of a quantum observable from the first and second moments of its measurement outcome statistics is investigated. Operational conditions for the moments of a probability measure are given which suffice to determine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 Pekka Lahti , Juha-Pekka Pellonpaa , Kari Ylinen

We consider the general measurement scenario in which the ensemble average of an operator is determined via suitable data-processing of the outcomes of a quantum measurement described by a POVM. We determine the optimal processing that…

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

We address the problem of distinguishing among a finite collection of quantum states, when the states are not entirely known. For completely specified states, necessary and sufficient conditions on a quantum measurement minimizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Noam Elron , Yonina C. Eldar

We study a coarse-graining map arising from incomplete and imperfect addressing of particles in a multipartite quantum system. In its simplest form, corresponding to a two-qubit state, the resulting channel produces a convex mixture of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 K. Uriostegui , C. Pineda , C. Chryssomalakos , V. Rascón Barajas , I. Vázquez Mota

We show that measuring pairs of qubits in the Bell basis can be used to obtain a simple quantum algorithm for efficiently identifying an unknown stabilizer state of n qubits. The algorithm uses O(n) copies of the input state and fails with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 Ashley Montanaro

The standard approach to quantum measurement discrimination is to perform the given unknown measurement on a probe state, possibly entangled with an auxiliary system, and make a decision based on the measurement outcome obtained. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Charbel Eid , Marco Túlio Quintino

We present the first complete optimization of quantum tomography, for states, POVMs, and various classes of transformations, for arbitrary prior ensemble and arbitrary representation, giving corresponding feasible experimental schemes.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Bisio , G. Chiribella , G. M. D'Ariano , S. Facchini , P. Perinotti

Quantum computing is rapidly gaining popularity, necessitating intuitive visualization tools for complex quantum states. While the Bloch Sphere effectively visualizes single-qubit states, it fundamentally lacks scalability for multi-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Fritz Schinkel

Quantum estimation involving multiple parameters remains an important problem of both theoretical and practical interest. In this work, we study the problem of simultaneous estimation of two parameters that are respectively associate with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Yink Loong Len

We demonstrate a simple technique to prepare and determine the desired internal quantum states in multi-Zeeman-sublevel atoms. By choosing appropriate coupling and pumping laser beams, atoms can be easily prepared in a desired Zeeman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo Wang , Yanxu Han , Jintao Xiao , Xudong Yang , Chunhong Zhang , Hai Wang , Min Xiao , Kunchi Peng

We address the problem of quantum nonlocality with positive operator valued measures (POVM) in the context of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen quantum steering. We show that, given a candidate for local hidden state (LHS) ensemble, the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 H. Chau Nguyen , Antony Milne , Thanh Vu , Sania Jevtic

The minimum error discrimination problem for ensembles of linearly independent pure states are known to have an interesting structure; for such a given ensemble the optimal POVM is given by the pretty good measurment of another ensemble…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Tanmay Singal , Sibasish Ghosh

We investigate the problem of bounding the quantum process fidelity given bounds on the fidelities between target states and the action of a process on a set of pure input states. We formulate the problem as a semidefinite program and prove…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Karl Mayer , Emanuel Knill

We analyze the estimation of a qubit pure state by means of local measurements on $N$ identical copies and compare its averaged fidelity for an isotropic prior probability distribution to the absolute upper bound given by collective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Bagan , A. Monras , R. Munoz-Tapia

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 state filtering is a variant of the unambiguous state discrimination problem: the states are grouped in sets and we want to determine to which particular set a given input state belongs.The simplest case, when the N given states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Janos A. Bergou , Mark Hillery

In this paper, we investigate a characterization of Quantum Mechanics by two physical principles based on general probabilistic theories. We first give the operationally motivated definition of the physical equivalence of states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Gen Kimura , Koji Nuida , Hideki Imai

We address the problem of estimating the phase phi given N copies of the phase rotation u(phi) within an array of quantum operations in finite dimensions. We first consider the special case where the array consists of an arbitrary input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wim van Dam , G. Mauro D'Ariano , Artur Ekert , Chiara Macchiavello , Michele Mosca

The discrimination of quantum states is a central problem in quantum information science and technology. Meanwhile, partial post-selection has emerged as a valuable tool for quantum state engineering. In this work, we bring these two areas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Qipeng Qian , Christos N. Gagatsos