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There has been a surge of progress in recent years in developing algorithms for testing and learning quantum states that achieve optimal copy complexity. Unfortunately, they require the use of entangled measurements across many copies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Sebastien Bubeck , Sitan Chen , Jerry Li

Quantum machine learning has received significant attention in recent years, and promising progress has been made in the development of quantum algorithms to speed up traditional machine learning tasks. In this work, however, we focus on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 Hao-Chung Cheng , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Ping-Cheng Yeh

We show that $\Omega(rd/\epsilon)$ copies of an unknown rank-$r$, dimension-$d$ quantum mixed state are necessary in order to learn a classical description with $1 - \epsilon$ fidelity. This improves upon the tomography lower bounds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Henry Yuen

The classical communication complexity of testing closeness of discrete distributions has recently been studied by Andoni, Malkin and Nosatzki (ICALP'19). In this problem, two players each receive $t$ samples from one distribution over…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Aleksandrs Belovs , Arturo Castellanos , François Le Gall , Guillaume Malod , Alexander A. Sherstov

We study various types of multipartite states lying near the quantum-classical boundary. The class of so-called classical states are precisely those in which each party can perform a projective measurement to identify a locally held state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-18 Lin Chen , Eric Chitambar , Kavan Modi , Giovanni Vacanti

We introduce a measure of ''quantumness'' for any quantum state in a finite dimensional Hilbert space, based on the distance between the state and the convex set of classical states. The latter are defined as states that can be written as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Olivier Giraud , Petr A. Braun , Daniel Braun

Quantum entanglement is essential to the development of quantum computation, communications, and technology. The controlled SWAP test, widely used for state comparison, can be adapted to an efficient and useful test for entanglement of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Steph Foulds , Viv Kendon , Tim Spiller

We study the sample complexity of the classical shadows task: what is the fewest number of copies of an unknown state you need to measure to predict expected values with respect to some class of observables? Large joint measurements are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Daniel Grier , Sihan Liu , Gaurav Mahajan

Uniformity testing and the more general identity testing are well studied problems in distributional property testing. Most previous work focuses on testing under $L_1$-distance. However, when the support is very large or even continuous,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Shichuan Deng , Wenzheng Li , Xuan Wu

Recently quantum states discrimination has been frequently studied. In this paper we study them from the other way round, the likeness of two quantum states. The fidelity is used to describe the likeness of two quantum states. Then we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fei Xue , Jiangfeng Du , Xianyi Zhou , Rongdian Han , Jihui Wu

The relative entropy between quantum states quantifies their distinguishability. The estimation of certain relative entropies has been investigated in the literature, e.g., the von Neumann relative entropy and sandwiched R\'enyi relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jinge Bao , Minbo Gao , Qisheng Wang

Beyond computer science, quantum complexity theory can potentially revolutionize multiple branches of physics, ranging from quantum many-body systems to quantum field theory. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Nengkun Yu , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We study the following distribution clustering problem: Given a hidden partition of $k$ distributions into two groups, such that the distributions within each group are the same, and the two distributions associated with the two clusters…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Gunjan Kumar , Yash Pote , Jonathan Scarlett

For a given pure state of a composite quantum system we analyze the product of its projections onto a set of locally orthogonal separable pure states. We derive a bound for this product analogous to the entropic uncertainty relations. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Łukasz Rudnicki , Paweł Horodecki , Karol Życzkowski

For distinguishing quantum states sampled from a fixed ensemble, the gap in bipartite and single-party distinguishability can be interpreted as a nonlocality of the ensemble. In this paper, we consider bipartite state discrimination in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Seiseki Akibue , Go Kato

A generic model of measurement device which is able to directly measure commonly used quantum-state characteristics such as fidelity, overlap, purity and Hilbert-Schmidt distance for two general uncorrelated mixed states is proposed. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Radim Filip

Efficient verification of multipartite quantum states is crucial to many applications in quantum information processing. By virtue of Schmidt decomposition and mutually unbiased bases, here we propose a universal protocol to verify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Yunting Li , Huangjun Zhu

In this article, we study an opposite problem of universal quantum state comparison, that is unambiguous determining whether multiple unknown quantum states from a Hilbert space are orthogonal or not. We show that no unambiguous quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Shengshi Pang , Shengjun Wu

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

A set of $n$ pure quantum states is called antidististinguishable if there exists an $n$-outcome measurement that never outputs the outcome `$k$' on the $k$-th quantum state. We describe sets of quantum states for which any subset of three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Vojtěch Havlíček , Jonathan Barrett