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Efficiently characterizing large quantum states and processes is a central yet notoriously challenging task in quantum information science, as conventional tomography methods typically require resources that grow exponentially with system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Chenyang Li , Shengxin Zhuang , Yukun Zhang , Jingbo B. Wang , Xiao Yuan , Yusen Wu , Chuan Wang

We develop a detector-based framework in which quantum theory and spacetime geometry arise within a common inferential structure. Detector states and a detector kernel assign amplitudes to measurement events, allowing quantum theory to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Marcello Rotondo

In the present paper we consider the problem of description of an arbitrary generalized quantum measurement with outcomes in a measurable space. Analyzing the unitary invariants of a measuring process, we present the most general form of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Elena R. Loubenets

Quantum sensor networks promise precision advantages over classical and single-sensor strategies, in particular when the estimator is non-local. We address the problem of finding such estimators through a framework we connote spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Luís Bugalho , Yasser Omar , Damian Markham

The characterization of physical systems relies on the observable properties which are measured, and how such measurements are performed. Here we analyze two ways of assigning a description to a quantum system assuming that we only have…

Qubit noise spectroscopy (QNS) is a valuable tool for both the characterization of a qubit's environment and as a precursor to more effective qubit control to improve qubit fidelities. Existing approaches to QNS are what the classical…

Quantum hypothesis testing (QHT) concerns the statistical inference of unknown quantum states. In the general setting of composite hypotheses, the goal of QHT is to determine whether an unknown quantum state belongs to one or another of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Matteo Zecchin , Osvaldo Simeone , Aaditya Ramdas

In the present paper I formulate a framework that accommodates many unambiguous discrimination problems. I show that the prior information about any type of constituent (state, channel, or observable) allows us to reformulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Michal Sedlák

Quantum sensing exploits non-classical effects to overcome limitations of classical sensors, with applications ranging from gravitational-wave detection to nanoscale imaging. However, practical quantum sensors built on noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Ivana Nikoloska , Hamdi Joudeh , Ruud van Sloun , Osvaldo Simeone

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

Measurement based quantum computation (MBQC) is an effective paradigm for universal quantum computation. In this scheme, the universal set of quantum gates are realized by only local measurements on the prior prepared cluster states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Ding Zhong , Jian Wang , Ning Dai , Liang-Zhu Mu , Heng Fan

The rising popularity of intelligent mobile devices and the daunting computational cost of deep learning-based models call for efficient and accurate on-device inference schemes. We propose a quantization scheme that allows inference to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Benoit Jacob , Skirmantas Kligys , Bo Chen , Menglong Zhu , Matthew Tang , Andrew Howard , Hartwig Adam , Dmitry Kalenichenko

The basic idea of quantum computing is surprisingly similar to that of kernel methods in machine learning, namely to efficiently perform computations in an intractably large Hilbert space. In this paper we explore some theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Maria Schuld , Nathan Killoran

We propose a reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with uncharacterized quantum bits. We show the security of the protocol. The protocol can also be useful for a channel that has a very low bit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Won-Young Hwang

The quantum variables that can be accessed directly by experiments are described by observables. Therefore, physical parameters can only be evaluated indirectly, via estimations based on experimental measurement results. I show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 B. M. Escher

The standard quantum state discrimination problem can be understood as a communication scenario involving a sender and a receiver following these three steps: (i) the sender encodes information in pre-agreed quantum states, (ii) sends them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Spiros Kechrimparis , James Moran , Athena Karsa , Changhyoup Lee , Hyukjoon Kwon

This review is designed to introduce mathematicians and computational scientists to quantum computing (QC) through the lens of uncertainty quantification (UQ) by presenting a mathematically rigorous and accessible narrative for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Ryan Bennink , Olena Burkovska , Konstantin Pieper , Jorge Ramirez , Elaine Wong

We argue that measurement data in quantum physics can be rigorously interpreted only as a result of a statistical, macroscopic process, taking into account the indistinguishable character of identical particles. Quantum determinism is in…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Patrick Navez , Henni Ouerdane

Quantum process tomography (QPT) methods aim at identifying a given quantum process. The present paper focuses on the estimation of a unitary process. This class is of particular interest because quantum mechanics postulates that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 François Verdeil , Yannick Deville

Quantum sensing (QS) harnesses quantum phenomena to measure physical observables with extraordinary precision, sensitivity, and resolution. Despite significant advancements in quantum sensing, prevailing efforts have focused predominantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Anastashia Jebraeilli , Chenxu Liu , Keyi Yin , Erik W Lentz , Yufei Ding , Ang Li