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Adaptive tomography has been widely investigated to achieve faster state tomography processing of quantum systems. Infidelity of the nearly pure states in a quantum information process generally scales as O(1/sqrt(N) ), which requires a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Hyeok Hwang , JaeKyung Choi , Eunseong Kim

Quantum detector tomography is a fundamental technique for calibrating quantum devices and performing quantum engineering tasks. In this paper, we design optimal probe states for detector estimation based on the minimum upper bound of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Shuixin Xiao , Yuanlong Wang , Daoyi Dong , Jun Zhang

We consider sequential hypothesis testing between two quantum states using adaptive and non-adaptive strategies. In this setting, samples of an unknown state are requested sequentially and a decision to either continue or to accept one of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Yonglong Li , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Marco Tomamichel

We study the complexity of two closely related learning problems, one quantum and one classical. In the quantum setting, we consider agnostic tomography for the natural class of product mixed states. Given $N$ copies of an $n$-qubit state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Alvan Arulandu , Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel Kane , Jerry Li

Traditional quantum state tomography requires a number of measurements that grows exponentially with the number of qubits n. But using ideas from computational learning theory, we show that "for most practical purposes" one can learn a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Scott Aaronson

Variational quantum learning faces practical challenges in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. Parameterized quantum circuit (PQC) models suffer from statistical uncertainty due to finite-shot measurements and are highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Chen-Yu Liu

Recent results have established dramatic advantages in learning properties of quantum states when a quantum computer is available to process or jointly measure multiple copies of the unknown quantum state. Learning tasks can be accomplished…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Spencer Dimitroff , John Kallaugher , Ashe Miller , Mohan Sarovar

We introduce a straightforward numerical coarse-graining scheme to estimate quantum states for a set of noisy measurement outcomes, which are difficult to calibrate, that is based solely on the measurement data collected from these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-15 Yong Siah Teo , Jaroslav Rehacek , Zdenek Hradil

Variational quantum algorithms, optimized using gradient-based methods, often exhibit sub-optimal convergence performance due to their dependence on Euclidean geometry. Quantum natural gradient descent (QNGD) is a more efficient method that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Mohammad Aamir Sohail , Mohsen Heidari , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We describe a resource-efficient approach to studying many-body quantum states on noisy, intermediate-scale quantum devices. We employ a sequential generation model that allows us to bound the range of correlations in the resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Johannes Borregaard , Matthias Christandl , Daniel Stilck França

We use a meta-learning neural-network approach to analyse data from a measured quantum state. Once our neural network has been trained it can be used to efficiently sample measurements of the state in measurement bases not contained in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Alistair W. R. Smith , Johnnie Gray , M. S. Kim

Preparation of a target quantum many-body state on quantum simulators is one of the significant steps in quantum science and technology. With a small number of qubits, a few quantum states, such as the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Donggyu Kim , Eun-Gook Moon

Quantum machine learning is among the most exciting potential applications of quantum computing. However, the vulnerability of quantum information to environmental noises and the consequent high cost for realizing fault tolerance has…

Quantifying the complexity of quantum states is a longstanding key problem in various subfields of science, ranging from quantum computing to the black-hole theory. The lower bound on quantum pure state complexity has been shown to grow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yusen Wu , Bujiao Wu , Yanqi Song , Xiao Yuan , Jingbo B. Wang

Characterization of quantum processes is a preliminary step necessary in the development of quantum technology. The conventional method uses standard quantum process tomography, which requires $d^2$ input states and $d^4$ quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Zhibo Hou , Jun-Feng Tang , Christopher Ferrie , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We develop an adaptive method for quantum state preparation that utilizes randomness as an essential component and that does not require classical optimization. Instead, a cost function is minimized to prepare a desired quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Alicia B. Magann , Sophia E. Economou , Christian Arenz

Predicting properties across system parameters is an important task in quantum physics, with applications ranging from molecular dynamics to variational quantum algorithms. Recently, provably efficient algorithms to solve this task for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Štěpán Šmíd , Roberto Bondesan

The characterization of quantum states is a fundamental step of any application of quantum technologies. Nowadays there exist several approaches addressing this problem, also based on machine and deep learning techniques. However, all these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Diego Maragnano , Claudio Cusano , Marco Liscidini

We present a protocol that allows the estimation of any density matrix element for continuous-variable quantum states, without resorting to the complete reconstruction of the full density matrix. The algorithm adaptatively discretizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Virginia Feldman , Ariel Bendersky

Symmetry is a unifying concept in physics. In quantum information and beyond, it is known that quantum states possessing symmetry are not useful for certain information-processing tasks. For example, states that commute with a Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Margarite L. LaBorde , Soorya Rethinasamy , Mark M. Wilde