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In this paper we present a search algorithm that finds useful optical quantum states which can be created with current technology. We apply the algorithm to the field of quantum metrology with the goal of finding states that can measure a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 P. A. Knott

We study quantum algorithms on search trees of unknown structure, in a model where the tree can be discovered by local exploration. That is, we are given the root of the tree and access to a black box which, given a vertex $v$, outputs the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Andris Ambainis , Martins Kokainis

Preparing the ground state of a given Hamiltonian and estimating its ground energy are important but computationally hard tasks. However, given some additional information, these problems can be solved efficiently on a quantum computer. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Lin Lin , Yu Tong

Measuring global quantum properties-such as the fidelity to complex multipartite states-is both an essential and experimentally challenging task. Classical shadow estimation offers favorable sample complexity, but typically relies on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Qingyue Zhang , Dayue Qin , Zhou You , Feng Xu , Jens Eisert , You Zhou

Emergent quantum computing technologies are widely expected to provide novel approaches in the simulation of quantum chemistry. Despite rapid improvements in the scale and fidelity of quantum computers, high resource requirements make the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Andrew Tranter , Duncan Gowland , Kentaro Yamamoto , Michelle Sze , David Muñoz Ramo

Entropy is a fundamental property of both classical and quantum systems, spanning myriad theoretical and practical applications in physics and computer science. We study the problem of obtaining estimates to within a multiplicative factor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Tom Gur , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Sathyawageeswar Subramanian

In this paper, we present a quantum algorithm for approximating multivariate traces, i.e. the traces of matrix products. Our research is motivated by the extensive utility of multivariate traces in elucidating spectral characteristics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Liron Mor Yosef , Shashanka Ubaru , Lior Horesh , Haim Avron

Extracting tomographic information about quantum states is a crucial task in the quest towards devising high-precision quantum devices. Current schemes typically require measurement devices for tomography that are a priori calibrated to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Ingo Roth , Jadwiga Wilkens , Dominik Hangleiter , Jens Eisert

We introduce a structured quantum search algorithm that leverages entanglement maps and a fixed-point method to minimize oracle query complexity in unsorted datasets. By partitioning qubits into rows based on their entanglement order, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Yash Prabhat , Snigdha Thakur , Ankur Raina

We consider the classic question of state tomography: given copies of an unknown quantum state $\rho\in\mathbb{C}^{d\times d}$, output $\widehat{\rho}$ which is close to $\rho$ in some sense, e.g. trace distance or fidelity. When one is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Sitan Chen , Brice Huang , Jerry Li , Allen Liu , Mark Sellke

The logarithm-determinant is an widely-present operation in many areas of physics and computer science. Derivatives of the logarithm-determinant compute physically relevant quantities in statistical physics models, quantum field theories,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Thomas E. Baker , Jaimie A. Greasley

Solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is an important application area for quantum algorithms. We consider Schr\"odinger's equation in the semi-classical regime. Here the solutions exhibit strong multiple-scale behavior due to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Shi Jin , Xiantao Li , Nana Liu

We propose quantum algorithms for projective ground-state preparation and calculations of the many-body Green's functions directly in frequency domain. The algorithms are based on the linear combination of unitary (LCU) operations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Trevor Keen , Eugene Dumitrescu , Yan Wang

Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE), the quantum algorithm for estimating eigenvalues of a given Hermitian matrix and preparing its eigenvectors, is considered the most promising approach to finding the ground states and their energies of…

Trace distance and infidelity (induced by square root fidelity), as basic measures of the closeness of quantum states, are commonly used in quantum state discrimination, certification, and tomography. However, the sample complexity for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Qisheng Wang , Zhicheng Zhang

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

We consider the problem of learning $N$ identical copies of an unknown $n$-qubit quantum graph state with product measurements. These graph states have corresponding graphs where every vertex has exactly $d$ neighboring vertices. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Yingkai Ouyang , Marco Tomamichel

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) that estimate values of widely used physical quantities such as the rank, quantum entropies, the Bures fidelity and the quantum Fisher information of mixed quantum states are developed. In addition,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Kok Chuan Tan , Tyler Volkoff

The problem of estimating the ground-state energy of a quantum system is ubiquitous in chemistry and condensed matter physics. Krylov quantum diagonalization (KQD) has emerged as a promising approach for this task. However, many KQD methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Adam Byrne , William Kirby , Kirk M. Soodhalter , Sergiy Zhuk

In the $k$-junta testing problem, a tester has to efficiently decide whether a given function $f:\{0,1\}^n\rightarrow \{0,1\}$ is a $k$-junta (i.e., depends on at most $k$ of its input bits) or is $\epsilon$-far from any $k$-junta. Our main…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Andris Ambainis , Aleksandrs Belovs , Oded Regev , Ronald de Wolf