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The task of learning a quantum circuit to prepare a given mixed state is a fundamental quantum subroutine. We present a variational quantum algorithm (VQA) to learn mixed states which is suitable for near-term hardware. Our algorithm…

Gradient ascent pulse engineering algorithm (GRAPE) is a typical method to solve quantum optimal control problems. However, it suffers from an exponential resource in computing the time evolution of quantum systems with the increasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Yuquan Chen , Yajie Hao , Ze Wu , Bi-Ying Wang , Ran Liu , Yanjun Hou , Jiangyu Cui , Man-Hong Yung , Xinhua Peng

Quantum circuits form a foundational framework in quantum science, enabling the description, analysis, and implementation of quantum computations. However, designing efficient circuits, typically constructed from single- and two-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Yadong Wu , Pengfei Zhang , Ce Wang , Juan Yao , Yi-Zhuang You

Preparing quantum states is a fundamental task in various quantum algorithms. In particular, state preparation in quantum harmonic oscillators (HOs) is crucial for the creation of qudits and the implementation of high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Nicolas Parra-A , Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Herbert Vinck-Posada

Photonic quantum computing has gained significant interest in recent years due to its potential for scaling to large numbers of qubits. A critical requirement for fault-tolerant quantum computation is the reliable generation of non-Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 S. Ismailzadeh , B. Abedi Ravan

Quantum hashing is a useful technique that allows us to construct memory-efficient algorithms and secure quantum protocols. First, we present a circuit that implements the phase form of quantum hashing using $2^{n-1}$ CNOT gates, where n is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Ilnar Zinnatullin , Kamil Khadiev

Before quantum error correction (QEC) is achieved, quantum computers focus on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) applications. Compared to the well-known quantum algorithms requiring QEC, like Shor's or Grover's algorithm, NISQ…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Bochen Tan , Jason Cong

The design of quantum circuits is often still done manually, for instance by following certain patterns or rule of thumb. While this approach may work well for some problems, it can be a tedious task and present quite the challenge in other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Leo Sünkel , Darya Martyniuk , Denny Mattern , Johannes Jung , Adrian Paschke

Dynamic quantum circuits (DQCs) incorporate mid-circuit measurements and gates conditioned on these measurement outcomes. DQCs can prepare certain long-range entangled states in constant depth, making them a promising route to preparing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Faisal Alam , Bryan K. Clark

Quantum state preparation is a critical task in quantum computing, particularly in fields such as quantum machine learning, Hamiltonian simulation, and quantum algorithm design. The depth of preparation circuit for the most general state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yu Li , Guojing Tian , Xiaoyu He , Xiaoming Sun

Quantum state preparation (QSP) is a fundamental task in quantum computation to prepare a quantum state for a given classical description of the quantum state. The classical description of an $n$-qubit quantum state may have $\exp(O(n))$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Yu Tanaka , Hayata Yamasaki , Mio Murao

Quantum state preparation is a fundamental component of quantum algorithms, particularly in quantum machine learning and data processing, where classical data must be encoded efficiently into quantum states. Existing amplitude encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Carsten Blank , Israel F. Araujo

Quantum computing promises to solve problems previously deemed infeasible. However, high error rates necessitate quantum error correction for practical applications. Seminal experiments with zoned neutral atom architectures have shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Yannick Stade , Ludwig Schmid , Lukas Burgholzer , Robert Wille

Quantum gate set tomography (GST) has emerged as a promising method for the full characterization of quantum logic gates. In contrast to quantum process tomography (QPT), GST self-consistently and correctly accounts for state preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-11 Daniel Greenbaum

Many quantum states arising in algorithms and physical systems occupy only a small, structured subset of the exponentially large Hilbert space, yet standard quantum state tomography fails to exploit this structure. We present an efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Chi-Kwong Li , Kevin Yipu Wu , Zherui Zhang

The preparation of data in quantum states is a critical component in the design of quantum algorithms. The cost of this step can significantly limit the realization of quantum advantage in domains such as machine learning, finance, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Alessandro Berti , Francesco Ghisoni

A simple method is proposed to prepare conveniently the effective pure state |00...0><0...00| with any number of qubits in a quantum ensemble. The preparation is based on the temporal averaging (Knill, Chuang, and Laflamme, Phys.Rev.A 57,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xijia Miao

Fault-tolerant state preparation is essential for reliable quantum error correction, particularly in Steane-type error correction, which relies on robust ancilla states for syndrome readout. One method of fault-tolerant state preparation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Erik Weilandt , Tom Peham , Robert Wille

While significant progress has been made on the hardware side of quantum computing, support for high-level quantum programming abstractions remains underdeveloped compared to classical programming languages. In this article, we introduce…

Simulating noisy quantum circuits is vital in designing and verifying quantum algorithms in the current NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) era, where quantum noise is unavoidable. However, it is much more inefficient than the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Mingyu Huang , Ji Guan , Wang Fang , Mingsheng Ying