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Several quantities of interest in quantum information, including entanglement and purity, are nonlinear functions of the density matrix and cannot, even in principle, correspond to proper quantum observables. Any method aimed to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-25 Matteo G. A. Paris

A reliable method for characterizing quantum operations that is suitable for improving and validating their accuracies is indispensable for realizing a practical quantum computer. Known methods are still not sufficient because they lack…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Takanori Sugiyama , Shinpei Imori , Fuyuhiko Tanaka

Quantum phenomena offer the possibility of measuring physical quantities with precision beyond classical limits. However, current progress is constrained by scalability, environmental noise, and challenges in practical integration. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 George Mihailescu , Uesli Alushi , Roberto Di Candia , Simone Felicetti , Karol Gietka

Assumption-free reconstruction of quantum states from measurements is essential for benchmarking and certifying quantum devices, but it remains difficult due to the extensive measurement statistics and experimental resources it demands. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Adrian Skasberg Aasen , Martin Gärttner

Several applications of quantum machine learning (QML) rely on a quantum measurement followed by training algorithms using the measurement outcomes. However, recently developed QML models, such as variational quantum circuits (VQCs), can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Hossein T. Dinani , Diego Tancara , Felipe F. Fanchini , Ariel Norambuena , Raul Coto

In quantum metrology, it is widely believed that the quantum Cramer-Rao bound is attainable bound while it is not true. In order to clarify this point, we explain why the quantum Cramer-Rao bound cannot be attained geometrically. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 Masahito Hayashi , Sai Vinjanampathy , L. C. Kwek

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) presents as a revolutionary approach to weather forecasting by using quantum computing to improve predictive modeling capabilities. In this study, we apply QML models, including Quantum Gated Recurrent Units…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Saiyam Sakhuja , Shivanshu Siyanwal , Abhishek Tiwari , Britant , Savita Kashyap

One of the main quests in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to find out the highest achievable precision with given resources and design schemes that attain that precision. In this article we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Haidong Yuan , Chi-Hang Fred Fung

This paper proposes a quantum circuit for computing the mean value from a given set of numbers or function evaluations. Suppose a Quantum Random Access Memory is given as a black-box function, which allows us to store and read the values of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Amanuel Tamirat

We present adaptive measurement techniques tailored for variational quantum algorithms on near-term small and noisy devices. In particular, we generalise earlier "learning to measure" strategies in two ways. First, by considering a class of…

Quantum advantage requires overcoming noise-induced degradation of quantum systems. Conventional methods for reducing noise such as error mitigation face scalability issues in deep circuits. Specifically, noise hampers the extraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yonglong Ding , Ruyu Yang

This paper focuses on the quantum amplitude estimation algorithm, which is a core subroutine in quantum computation for various applications. The conventional approach for amplitude estimation is to use the phase estimation algorithm, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Yohichi Suzuki , Shumpei Uno , Rudy Raymond , Tomoki Tanaka , Tamiya Onodera , Naoki Yamamoto

Quantum machine learning implemented by variational quantum circuits (VQCs) is considered a promising concept for the noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing era. Focusing on applications in quantum reinforcement learning, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Nico Meyer , Daniel D. Scherer , Axel Plinge , Christopher Mutschler , Michael J. Hartmann

Seeking the available precision limit of unknown parameters is a significant task in quantum parameter estimation. One often resorts to the widely utilized quantum Cramer-Rao bound (QCRB) based on unbiased estimators to finish this task.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Xuan Rao , Huan Zhang , Liqing Huang , Mengmeng Luo , Yuetao Chen , Qiang Ma , Shaoyan Gao

Continuous-variable (CV) quantum systems provide a versatile platform for quantum information processing, in which quantum states can be represented in the quadrature phase space. In realistic implementations, environmental noise, primarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jingpeng Zhang , Shengyong Li , Jie Han , Qianchuan Zhao , Jing Zhang , Zeliang Xiang

Quantum enhanced sensing provides a powerful tool for the precise measurement of physical parameters that is applicable in many areas of science and technology. The achievable gain in sensitivity is largely limited by the influence of noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Yu Liu , Zijun Shu , Martin B. Plenio , Jianming Cai

Quantum metrology is a rapidly developing branch of quantum technologies. While various theories have been established on quantum metrology for Markovian processes, i.e., quantum channel estimation, quantum metrology for non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anian Altherr , Yuxiang Yang

Measuring expectation values of observables is an essential ingredient in variational quantum algorithms. A practical obstacle is the necessity of a large number of measurements for statistical convergence to meet requirements of precision,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Masaya Kohda , Ryosuke Imai , Keita Kanno , Kosuke Mitarai , Wataru Mizukami , Yuya O. Nakagawa

Evaluating the expectation of a quantum circuit is a classically difficult problem known as the quantum mean value problem (QMV). It is used to optimize the quantum approximate optimization algorithm and other variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 David Joseph , Antonio J. Martinez , Cong Ling , Florian Mintert

Quantum-enhanced sensing is commonly benchmarked using the quantum Fisher information (QFI), often interpreted as a direct indicator of achievable precision. However, this quantity acquires operational meaning only within a fully specified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Zdeněk Hradil , Jaroslav Řeháček