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We consider the problem of deciding whether a given state preparation, i.e., a source of quantum states, is accurate, namely produces states close to a target one within a prescribed threshold. We show that, when multiple measurements need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Weichao Liang , Francesco Ticozzi , Giuseppe Vallone

Suppose, we are given two finite ensembles of pure qubit states, so that the qubits in each ensemble are prepared in identical (but unknown for us) states lying on the equator of the Bloch sphere. What is the best strategy to estimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-23 Michael Siomau

We consider the optimal discrimination of bipartite quantum states and provide an upper bound for the maximum success probability of optimal local discrimination. We also provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a measurement to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Donghoon Ha , Jeong San Kim

Quantum state exclusion is the task of determining which states from a given set a system was not prepared in. We provide a complete solution to optimal quantum state exclusion for arbitrary sets of pure states generated by finite groups,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Arnau Diebra , Santiago Llorens , Emili Bagan , Gael Sentís , Ramon Muñoz-Tapia

We present optimal measuring strategies for the estimation of the entanglement of unknown two-qubit pure states and of the degree of mixing of unknown single-qubit mixed states, of which N identical copies are available. The most general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Acin , R. Tarrach , G. Vidal

Mutually unbiased bases determine an optimal set of measurements to extract complete information about the quantum state of a system. However, quite often a priori information about the state exist, making some of the measurement bases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. B. Klimov , G. Bjork , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

We discuss the problem of designing unambiguous programmable discriminators for any n unknown quantum states in an m-dimensional Hilbert space. The discriminator is a fixed measurement that has two kinds of input registers: the program…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chi Zhang , Mingsheng Ying , Bo Qiao

The problem of discriminating the state of a quantum system among a number of hypothetical states is usually addressed under the assumption that one has perfect knowledge of the possible states of the system. In this thesis, I analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Gael Sentís

Measurement based quantum computation (MBQC), which requires only single particle measurements on a universal resource state to achieve the full power of quantum computing, has been recognized as one of the most promising models for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 Xie Chen , Runyao Duan , Zhengfeng Ji , Bei Zeng

Quantum noise constitutes a fundamental obstacle to realizing practical quantum technologies. To address the pivotal challenge of identifying quantum systems least affected by noise, we introduce the purest quantum state identification,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Yingqi Yu , Honglin Chen , Jun Wu , Wei Xie , Xiangyang Li

Mutually unbiased measurements (MUMs) are generalized from the concept of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) and include the complete set of MUBs as a special case, but they are superior to MUBs as they do not need to be rank one projectors. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Lu Liu , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

Self-calibrating quantum state tomography aims at reconstructing the unknown quantum state and certain properties of the measurement devices from the same data. Since the estimates of the state and device parameters come from the same data,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Jun Yan Sim , Jiangwei Shang , Hui Khoon Ng , Berthold-Georg Englert

We develop a scheme to prepare a macroscopic maximally entangled state (MMES) between two atomic ensembles using adaptive quantum nondemolition (QND) measurements. The quantum state of the system is evolved using a sequence of QND…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Manish Chaudhary , Ebubechukwu O. Ilo-Okeke , Valentin Ivannikov , Tim Byrnes

This work introduces optimization strategies to continuous variable measurement based quantum computation (MBQC) at different levels. We provide a recipe for mitigating the effects of finite squeezing, which affect the production of cluster…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 G. Ferrini , J. Roslund , F. Arzani , Y. Cai , C. Fabre , N. Treps

The tomographic reconstruction of the state of a quantum-mechanical system is an essential component in the development of quantum technologies. We present an overview of different tomographic methods for determining the quantum-mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Roman Schmied

The ability to uniquely identify a quantum state is integral to quantum science, but for non-orthogonal states, quantum mechanics precludes deterministic, error-free discrimination. However, using the non-deterministic protocol of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Megan Agnew , Eliot Bolduc , Kevin J. Resch , Sonja Franke-Arnold , Jonathan Leach

We experimentally demonstrate a two-particle collective measurement proposed as the optimal solution to a quantum state estimation game. Our results suggest that, in practice, the collective measurement strategy is at least as good as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Arman Mansouri , Kyle M. Jordan , Raphael A. Abrahao , Jeff S. Lundeen

Qubit-resolved operations and measurements are required for most current quantum information processing schemes. However, these operations can be experimentally costly due to the need for local addressing, demanding significant classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Liang Mao , Yifei Wang , Yingfei Gu , Chengshu Li

We develop error-tolerant quantum state discrimination(QSD) strategies that maintain reliable performance under moderate noise. Two complementary approaches are proposed: CrossQSD, which generalizes unambiguous discrimination with tunable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Chien-Kai Ma , Bo-Hung Chen , Tian-Fu Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou , Jie-Hong Roland Jiang

When used in quantum state estimation, projections onto mutually unbiased bases have the ability to maximize information extraction per measurement and to minimize redundancy. We present the first experimental demonstration of quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Robert B. A. Adamson , Aephraim M. Steinberg