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Quantum computing shows promise for addressing computationally intensive problems but is constrained by the exponential resource requirements of general quantum state tomography (QST), which fully characterizes quantum states through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Hao Su , Shiying Xiong , Yue Yang

We present QEst, a procedure to systematically generate approximations for quantum circuits to reduce their CNOT gate count. Our approach employs circuit partitioning for scalability with procedures to 1) reduce circuit length using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Tirthak Patel , Ed Younis , Costin Iancu , Wibe de Jong , Devesh Tiwari

Quantum tomography is crucial for characterizing the quantum states of multipartite systems, but its practicality is often limited by the exponentially large dimension of the Hilbert space. Most existing approaches, such as compressed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Yat Wong , Ming Yuan , Kevin He , Srivatsan Chakram , Alireza Seif , David I. Schuster , Liang Jiang

We present a conceptual approach to quantum tomography based on first expanding a quantum state across extra degrees of freedom and then exploiting the introduced sparsity to perform reconstruction. We formulate its application to photonic…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-19 James Titchener , Alexander Solntsev , Andrey Sukhorukov

Quantum tomography is a crucial tool for characterizing quantum states and devices and estimating nonlinear properties of the systems. Performing full quantum state tomography on an $N_\mathrm{q}$ qubit system requires an exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Zhixin Song , Hang Ren , Melody Lee , Bryan Gard , Nicolas Renaud , Spencer H. Bryngelson

Quantum state tomography (QST) aiming at reconstructing the density matrix of a quantum state plays an important role in various emerging quantum technologies. Recognizing the challenges posed by imperfect measurement data, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Hailan Ma , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen , Chang-Jiang Huang , Guo-Yong Xiang

Quantum processes, including quantum gates and channels, are integral to various quantum information tasks, making the efficient characterization of these processes and their underlying noise critically important. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Mengru Ma , Jiangwei Shang

Developing methods to solve nuclear many-body problems with quantum computers is an imperative pursuit within the nuclear physics community. Here, we introduce a quantum algorithm to accurately and precisely compute the ground state of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-11 Sota Yoshida , Takeshi Sato , Takumi Ogata , Tomoya Naito , Masaaki Kimura

Quantum computers are a revolutionary class of computational platforms with applications in combinatorial and global optimization, machine learning, and other domains involving computationally hard problems. While these machines typically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Aditya Sodhani , Keshab K. Parhi

We present a protocol that allows the estimation of any density matrix element for continuous-variable quantum states, without resorting to the complete reconstruction of the full density matrix. The algorithm adaptatively discretizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Virginia Feldman , Ariel Bendersky

Tomography is an indispensable part of quantum computation as it enables diagnosis of a quantum process through state reconstruction. Existing tomographic protocols are based on determining expectation values of various Pauli operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Tanay Roy , Ziqian Li , Eliot Kapit , David I. Schuster

We make the case that variational algorithm ansatzes for near-term quantum computing are well-suited for the quantum circuit cutting strategy. Previous demonstrations of circuit cutting focused on the exponential execution and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Zirui Li , Minghao Guo , Mayank Barad , Wei Tang , Eddy Z. Zhang , Yipeng Huang

We describe an approach for characterizing the process of quantum gates using quantum process tomography, by first modeling them in an extended Hilbert space, which includes non-qubit degrees of freedom. To prevent unphysical processes from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter P. Rohde , G. J. Pryde , J. L. O'Brien , Timothy C. Ralph

Creation and manipulation of entanglement with low error is essential in quantum information systems. In practice, two-qubit entangling gates constitute a dominant error source, limiting circuit depths and performance in fault-tolerant…

Quantum tomography makes it possible to obtain comprehensive information about certain logical elements of a quantum computer. In this regard, it is a promising tool for debugging quantum computers. The practical application of tomography,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 B. I. Bantysh , Yu. I. Bogdanov

Quantum state tomography (QST) scales exponentially in both measurement and computational cost, making full reconstruction impractical for multi-qubit systems. Existing approaches attempt to reduce this complexity, but do not explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Ayush Chambyal , Brijesh , Rakesh Sharma

We discuss how to build some partially entangled states of $n$ two-state quantum systems (qubits). The optimal partially entangled state with a high degree of symmetry is considered to be useful for overcoming a shot noise limit of Ramsey…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroo Azuma

We experimentally demonstrate an optical controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate with arbitrary single inputs based on a 4-photon 6-qubit cluster state entangled both in polarization and spatial modes. We first generate the 6-qubit state, and then by…

Quantum process tomography (QPT), where a quantum channel is reconstructed through the analysis of repeated quantum measurements, is an important tool for validating the operation of a quantum processor. We detail the combined use of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Aidan Dang , Gregory A. L. White , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg , Charles D. Hill

Circuit optimization is a fundamental task for practical applications of near-term quantum computers. In this work we address this challenge through the powerful lenses of tensor network theory. Our approach involves the full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Matan Ben-Dov , Itai Arad , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre