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Quantum State Tomography is the task of determining an unknown quantum state by making measurements on identical copies of the state. Current algorithms are costly both on the experimental front -- requiring vast numbers of measurements --…

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Quantum-optical coherence tomography (QOCT) is an optical sectioning modality based on the quantum interference of photon pairs, obtained from a spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) source. The promise of QOCT derives from two…

The maximum-entropy principle (Max-Ent) is a valuable and extensively used tool in statistical mechanics and quantum information theory. It provides a method for inferring the state of a system by utilizing a reduced set of parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 F. T. B. Pérez , J. M. Matera

The reconstruction of quantum states from experimental measurements, often achieved using quantum state tomography (QST), is crucial for the verification and benchmarking of quantum devices. However, performing QST for a generic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Zhen Qin , Casey Jameson , Zhexuan Gong , Michael B. Wakin , Zhihui Zhu

Free electrons provide a powerful tool to probe material properties at atomic-scale spatial resolution. Recent advances in ultrafast electron microscopy enable the manipulation of free electron wavefunctions using laser pulses. It would be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ron Ruimy , Alexey Gorlach , Chen Mechel , Nicholas Rivera , Ido Kaminer

In ultrafast experiments with gas phase molecules, the alignment of the molecular axis relative to the polarization of the interacting laser pulses plays a crucial role in determining the dynamics following this light-matter interaction.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Shashank Kumar , Eric Liu , Liang Z. Tan , Varun Makhija , Niranjan Shivaram

The notion of a macroscopic quantum state must be pinned down in order to assess how well experiments probe the large-scale limits of quantum mechanics. However, the issue of quantifying so-called quantum macroscopicity is fraught with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Benjamin Yadin , Matteo Fadel

Quantum state tomography is an important tool for quantum communication, computation, metrology, and simulation. Efficient quantum state tomography on a high dimensional quantum system is still a challenging problem. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Ruifeng Liu , Junling Long , Pei Zhang , Russell E. Lake , Hong Gao , David P. Pappas , Fuli Li

Quantum state tomography (QST) via local measurements on reduced density matrices (LQST) is a promising approach but becomes impractical for large systems. To tackle this challenge, we developed an efficient quantum state tomography method…

We propose an approach to the realization of many-body quantum state distributions inspired by combined principles of thermodynamics and mesoscopic physics. Its essence is a maximum entropy principle conditioned by conservation laws. We go…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Alexander Altland , David A. Huse , Tobias Micklitz

The standard method of Quantum State Tomography (QST) relies on the measurement of a set of noncommuting observables, realized in a series of independent experiments. Ancilla Assisted QST (AAQST) proposed by Nieuwenhuizen and co-workers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Abhishek Shukla , K. Rama Koteswara Rao , T. S. Mahesh

I present a concise, first principles metrological framework for imaging dielectric biomaterials by probing the full phase space (Wigner) distribution of a quantum electromagnetic field. Building on a rigorous multilayer Maxwell and Cole…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Alessandro Settimi

Ultrafast spectroscopy of molecular systems is fundamentally constrained by the Fourier uncertainty principle: high temporal resolution smears out electronic state signatures, while high spectral resolution obscures dynamic information.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Mingran Zhang , Yihe Xu , Vladislav V. Yakovlev , Zhedong Zhang

The problem of quantum state estimation is crucial in the development of quantum technologies. In particular, the use of symmetric quantum states is useful in many relevant applications. In this work, we analyze the task of reconstructing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Federico Holik , Marcelo Losada , Giannina Zerr , Lorena Rebón , Diego Tielas

Entanglement is a key property in the development of quantum technologies and in the study of quantum many-body simulations. However, entanglement measurement typically requires quantum full-state tomography (FST). Here we present a neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Yulei Huang , Liangyu Che , Chao Wei , Feng Xu , Xinfang Nie , Jun Li , Dawei Lu , Tao Xin

We introduce the concept of selective quantum state tomography or SQST, a tomographic scheme that enables a user to estimate arbitrary elements of an unknown quantum state using a fixed measurement record. We demonstrate how this may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Joshua Morris , Borivoje Dakić

Tomography of a quantum state is usually based on positive operator-valued measure (POVM) and on their experimental statistics. Among the available reconstructions, the maximum-likelihood (MaxLike) technique is an efficient one. We propose…

We propose a super-resolution quantum lithography scheme based on coherent population trapping in lambda-type atoms coupled to temporally-cascaded standing-wave driving fields. By realizing effective multiplication of optical intensity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Hee Su Park , Sun Kyung Lee

We present preliminary results from the first attempt to reconstruct the spectral function in the nucleon and $\Delta$ channels from lattice QCD data using the maximum entropy method (MEM). An advantage of the MEM analysis is to enable us…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Sasaki , K. Sasaki , T. Hatsuda , M. Asakawa

Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) enable atomic-scale imaging and characterisation, driving advances across fields from materials science to biology. Quantum correlations, specifically entanglement, may provide a basis for novel…