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As one of the main pillars of quantum technologies, quantum metrology aims to improve measurement precision using techniques from quantum information. The two main strategies to achieve this are the preparation of nonclassical states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Matteo Fadel , Noah Roux , Manuel Gessner

Sequential methods for quantum hypothesis testing offer significant advantages over fixed-length approaches, which rely on a predefined number of state copies. Despite their potential, these methods remain underexplored for unambiguous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Jordi Pérez-Guijarro , Alba Pagès-Zamora , Javier R. Fonollosa

A key concept of quantum information theory is that accessing information encoded in a quantum system requires us to discriminate between several possible states the system could be in. A natural generalization of this problem, namely,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Tathagata Gupta , Shayeef Murshid , Vincent Russo , Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

Quantum tomography is an essential method of the photonic technology toolbox and is routinely used for evaluation of experimentally prepared states of light and characterization of devices transforming such states. The tomography procedure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Radim Hošák , Robert Stárek , Miroslav Ježek

We consider the use of feedback control during a measurement to increase the rate at which a single qubit is purified, and more generally the rate at which near-pure states may be prepared. We derive the optimal bang-bang algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Kurt Jacobs

Most quantum processors requires pulse sequences for controlling quantum states. Here, we present an alternative algorithm for computing an optimal pulse sequence in order to perform a specific task, being an implementation of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 John P. S. Peterson , Roberto S. Sarthour , Raymond Laflamme

We identify optimal measurement strategies for phase estimation in different scenarios. For pure states of a single qubit, we show that optimal measurements form a broad set parametrized with a continuous variable. When the state is mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 T. Wasak , J. Chwedenczuk , L. Pezze , A. Smerzi

We characterize minimal measurement setups for validating the quantum coherence of an unknown quantum state. We show that for a $d$-level system, the optimal strategy consists of measuring $d$ orthonormal bases such that each measured basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Claudio Carmeli , Teiko Heinosaari , Sabrina Maniscalco , Jussi Schultz , Alessandro Toigo

Quantum physics holds the promise of enabling certain tasks with better performance than possible when only classical resources are employed. The quantum phenomena present in many experiments signify nonclassical behavior, but do not always…

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

A pivotal task in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to de- sign schemes that achieve the highest precision with given resources. Standard models of quantum metrology usually assume the dynamics is fixed, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

The guesswork quantifies the minimum cost incurred in guessing the state of an ensemble, when only one state can be queried at a time. In the classical case, it is well known that the optimal strategy trivially consists of querying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Michele Dall'Arno

Measuring the closest distance between two states is an alternative and significant approach in the resource quantification, which is the core task in the resource theory. Quite limited progress has been made for this approach even in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Li-qiang Zhang , Deng-hui Yu , Chang-shui Yu

We consider the problem of designing an optimal quantum detector to minimize the probability of a detection error when distinguishing between a collection of quantum states, represented by a set of density operators. We show that the design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Yonina C. Eldar , Alexandre Megretski , George C. Verghese

We describe two procedures which, given access to one copy of a quantum state and a sequence of two-outcome measurements, can distinguish between the case that at least one of the measurements accepts the state with high probability, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Aram W. Harrow , Cedric Yen-Yu Lin , Ashley Montanaro

An optimal estimator of quantum states based on a modified Kalman's Filter is proposed in this work. Such estimator acts after state measurement, allowing obtain an optimal estimation of quantum state resulting in the output of any quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Mario Mastriani

Knowing and guessing, these are two essential epistemological pillars in the theory of quantum-mechanical measurement. As formulated quantum mechanics is a statistical theory. In general, a priori unknown states can be completely determined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Buzek , G. Drobny , R. Derka , G. Adam , H. Wiedemann

In this paper, we propose feedback designs for manipulating a quantum state to a target state by performing sequential measurements. In light of Belavkin's quantum feedback control theory, for a given set of (projective or non-projective)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Shuangshuang Fu , Guodong Shi , Alexandre Proutiere , Matthew R. James

The state of a quantum system may be steered towards a predesignated target state, employing a sequence of weak $\textit{blind}$ measurements (where the detector's readouts are traced out). Here we analyze the steering of a two-level system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Parveen Kumar , Kyrylo Snizhko , Yuval Gefen , Bernd Rosenow

A common requirement of quantum simulations and algorithms is the preparation of complex states through sequences of 2-qubit gates. For a generic quantum state, the number of gates grows exponentially with the number of qubits, becoming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Matan Ben Dov , David Shnaiderov , Adi Makmal , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre