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Finding solid and practical quantum advantages via noisy quantum devices without error correction is a critical but challenging problem. Conversely, comprehending the fundamental limitations of the state-of-the-art is equally crucial. In…

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Generalizing earlier work characterizing the quantum query complexity of computing a function of an unknown classical ``black box'' function drawn from some set of such black box functions, we investigate a more general quantum query model…

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Detecting the presence of multiple incoherent sources is a fundamental and challenging task for quantum imaging, especially within sub-Rayleigh region. In this paper, the discrimination of one-versus-two point-like incoherent sources in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Jian-Dong Zhang , Mei-Ming Zhang , Chuang Li , Shuai Wang

The uncertainty principle is a fundamental principle in quantum physics. It implies that the measurement outcomes of two incompatible observables can not be predicted simultaneously. In quantum information theory, this principle can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-24 F. Adabi , S. Salimi , S. Haseli

Benchmarking Quantum Process Units (QPU) at an application level usually requires considering the whole programming stack of the quantum computer. One critical task is the minor-embedding (resp. transpilation) step, which involves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Valentin Gilbert , Julien Rodriguez , Stéphane Louise

Quantum-inspired classical algorithms provide us with a new way to understand the computational power of quantum computers for practically-relevant problems, especially in machine learning. In the past several years, numerous efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Nikhil S. Mande , Changpeng Shao

Access to the time-reverse $U^{-1}$ of an unknown quantum unitary process $U$ is widely assumed in quantum learning, metrology, and many-body physics. The fundamental task of unitary time-reversal dictates implementing $U^{-1}$ to within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Kean Chen , Nengkun Yu , Zhicheng Zhang

We present a method to test quantum behavior of quantum information processing devices, such as quantum memories, teleportation devices, channels and quantum key distribution protocols. The test of quantum behavior can be phrased as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-07 Hauke Häseler , Tobias Moroder , Norbert Lütkenhaus

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is an important component of molecular property prediction, particularly for drug discovery applications where model predictions direct experimental design and where unanticipated imprecision wastes valuable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Lior Hirschfeld , Kyle Swanson , Kevin Yang , Regina Barzilay , Connor W. Coley

Quantum hypothesis testing is an important tool for quantum information processing. Two main strategies have been widely adopted: in a minimum error discrimination strategy, the average error probability is minimized; while in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Quntao Zhuang

The conventional approach to understanding the characteristics of an unknown quantum state involves having numerous identical independent copies of the system in that state. However, we demonstrate that gleaning insights into specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Nengkun Yu

We study the problem of communication over a compound quantum channel in the presence of entanglement. Classically such channels are modeled as a collection of conditional probability distributions wherein neither the sender nor the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Anurag Anshu , Rahul Jain , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

We study how the choices made when designing an oracle affect the complexity of quantum property testing problems defined relative to this oracle. We encode a regular graph of even degree as an invertible function $f$, and present $f$ in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Roozbeh Bassirian , Bill Fefferman , Kunal Marwaha

We address quantum decision theory as a convenient framework to analyze process discrimination and estimation in qubit systems. In particular we discuss the following problems: i) how to discriminate whether or not a given unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Ivan Maffeis , Seid Koudia , Abdelhakim Gharbi , Matteo G. A. Paris

There is growing interest in developing rigorous tests of quantumness that are feasible even before practical quantum advantages become a reality. Such tests not only aim to certify the quantum nature of a system but also serve as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Anna Schroeder , Lucas B. Vieira , Jan Nöller , Nikolai Miklin , Mariami Gachechiladze

We formulate minimum-error and unambiguous discrimination problems for quantum processes in the language of process positive operator valued measures (PPOVM). In this framework we present the known solution for minimum-error discrimination…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mario Ziman , Michal Sedlák

We review in a unified way a recently proposed method to detect properties of unknown quantum channels and lower bounds to quantum capacities, without resorting to full quantum process tomography. The method is based on the preparation of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Chiara Macchiavello , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

Understanding entanglement cost in non-local quantum computation (NLQC) is relevant to complexity, cryptography, gravity, and other areas. This entanglement cost is largely uncharacterized; previous lower bound techniques apply to narrowly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Richard Cleve , Alex May

Many proofs in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science are based on the probabilistic method. To prove the existence of a good object, we pick a random object and show that it is bad with low probability. This method is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Pat Morin , Wolfgang Mulzer , Tommy Reddad

Quantum process learning is emerging as an important tool to study quantum systems. While studied extensively in coherent frameworks, where the target and model system can share quantum information, less attention has been paid to whether…