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When estimating an unknown phase rotation of a continuous-variable system with homodyne detection, the optimal probe state strongly depends on the value of the estimated parameter. In this article, we identify the optimal pure single-mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Simon Morelli

We develop several algorithms for performing quantum phase estimation based on basic measurements and classical post-processing. We present a pedagogical review of quantum phase estimation and simulate the algorithm to numerically determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Krysta M. Svore , Matthew B. Hastings , Michael Freedman

As all physical adaptive quantum-enhanced metrology schemes operate under noisy conditions with only partially understood noise characteristics, so a practical control policy must be robust even for unknown noise. We aim to devise a test to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Pantita Palittapongarnpim , Barry C. Sanders

The measurement of physical parameters is one of the main pillars of science. A classic example is the measurement of the optical phase enabled by optical interferometry where the best sensitivity achievable with N photons scales as 1/N -…

Maximizing the computational utility of near-term quantum processors requires predictive noise models that inform robust, noise-aware compilation and error mitigation. Conventional models often fail to capture the complex error dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Yanjun Ji , Marco Roth , David A. Kreplin , Ilia Polian , Frank K. Wilhelm

Randomized experiments are the gold standard for evaluating the effects of changes to real-world systems. Data in these tests may be difficult to collect and outcomes may have high variance, resulting in potentially large measurement error.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-27 Benjamin Letham , Brian Karrer , Guilherme Ottoni , Eytan Bakshy

In this article, based on some simple and reasonable assumptions, we derive a Gaussian noise model for quantum amplitude estimation. We provide results from quantum amplitude estimation run on various IBM superconducting quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Steven Herbert , Ifan Williams , Roland Guichard , Darren Ng

We consider performing phase estimation under the following conditions: we are given only one copy of the input state, the input state does not have to be an eigenstate of the unitary, and the state must not be measured. Most quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Patrick Rall

Bayesian error analysis paves the way to the construction of credible and plausible error regions for a point estimator obtained from a given dataset. We introduce the concept of region accuracy for error regions (a generalization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-15 Changhun Oh , Yong Siah Teo , Hyunseok Jeong

As quantum systems expand in size and complexity, manual qubit characterization and gate optimization will be a non-scalable and time-consuming venture. Physical qubits have to be carefully calibrated because quantum processors are very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Peng Qian , Shahid Qamar , Xiao Xiao , Yanwu Gu , Xudan Chai , Zhen Zhao , Nicolo Forcellini , Dong E. Liu

We describe an efficient implementation of Bayesian quantum phase estimation in the presence of noise and multiple eigenstates. The main contribution of this work is the dynamic switching between different representations of the phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Ewout van den Berg

Adaptive techniques make practical many quantum measurements that would otherwise be beyond current laboratory capabilities. For example: they allow discrimination of nonorthogonal states with a probability of error equal to the Helstrom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 H. M. Wiseman , D. W. Berry , S. D. Bartlett , B. L. Higgins , G. J. Pryde

High-precision optical phase stabilization in quantum networks is fundamentally constrained by the strict photon-flux and duty-cycle limits required to avoid disturbing fragile quantum states. This challenge becomes especially critical when…

We present a general framework to study the simultaneous estimation of multiple phases in the presence of noise as a discretized model for phase imaging. This approach can lead to nontrivial bounds of the precision for multiphase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 Jie-Dong Yue , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

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

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) serves as a building block of many different quantum algorithms and finds important applications in computational chemistry problems. Despite the rapid development of quantum hardware, experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Kentaro Yamamoto , Samuel Duffield , Yuta Kikuchi , David Muñoz Ramo

The accumulation of noise in quantum computers is the dominant issue stymieing the push of quantum algorithms beyond their classical counterparts. We do not expect to be able to afford the overhead required for quantum error correction in…

Quantum computing allows for the manipulation of highly correlated states whose properties quickly go beyond the capacity of any classical method to calculate. Thus one natural problem which could lend itself to quantum advantage is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Kevin Lively , Tim Bode , Jochen Szangolies , Jian-Xin Zhu , Benedikt Fauseweh

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a central algorithmic primitive that estimates eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian up to precision $\epsilon$ in Heisenberg-limited time $T=\Theta(1/\epsilon)$. Standard gate-based implementations of QPE require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Alexander Schmidhuber , Seth Lloyd

We introduce a classical estimator for the post-processing of quantum phase estimation data generated either by quantum-Fourier-transform-based or quantum-signal-processing-based methods. We focus on the estimation of a single target phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Alicja Dutkiewicz , Thomas E. O'Brien , Stefano Polla