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The research presented in this article concerns the stroboscopic approach to quantum tomography, which is an area of science where quantum Physics and linear algebra overlap. In this article we introduce the algebraic structure of the…

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The goal of quantum channel discrimination and estimation is to determine the identity of an unknown channel from a discrete or continuous set, respectively. The query complexity of these tasks is equal to the minimum number of times one…

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We consider the problem of discriminating qubit states that are sent over a quantum channel and derive a necessary and sufficient condition for an optimal measurement to be preserved by the channel. We apply the result to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Spiros Kechrimparis , Joonwoo Bae

We present quantum fidelity benchmarks for continuous-variable (CV) quantum devices to outperform quantum channels which can transmit at most $k$-dimensional coherences for positive integers $k$. We determine an upper bound of an average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-06 Ryo Namiki

We consider a quaternionic quantum formalism for the description of quantum states and quantum dynamics. We prove that generalized quantum measurements on physical systems in quaternionic quantum theory can be simulated by usual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Matthew A. Graydon

This paper presents a counterexample to the optimality conjecture in convex quantum channel optimization proposed by Coutts et al. The conjecture posits that for nuclear norm minimization problems in quantum channel optimization, the dual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jianting Yang

We present a new method for quantum process tomography. The method enables us to efficiently estimate, with fixed precision, any of the parameters characterizing a quantum channel. It is selective since one can choose to estimate the value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 Ariel Bendersky , Fernando Pastawski , Juan Pablo Paz

A quantum control landscape is defined as the physical objective as a function of the control variables to be optimized. Analyzing the topology of these landscapes is important for understanding the origins of the increasing number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-01 Rebing Wu , Herschel Rabitz , Michael Hsieh

Constrained optimization plays a crucial role in the fields of quantum physics and quantum information science and becomes especially challenging for high-dimensional complex structure problems. One specific issue is that of quantum process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Daniel Volya , Andrey Nikitin , Prabhat Mishra

How many black-box queries to a quantum channel are needed to learn its full classical description? This question lies at the heart of quantum channel tomography (also known as quantum process tomography), a fundamental task in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Kean Chen , Filippo Girardi , Aadil Oufkir , Nengkun Yu , Zhicheng Zhang

Many quantum information tasks use inputs of the form $\rho^{\otimes m}$, which naturally induce permutation and unitary symmetries. We classify all quantum channels that respect both symmetries - i.e. unitary-equivariant and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Laura Mančinska , Elias Theil

The L\"uders rule provides a way to define a quantum channel given a quantum measurement. Using this construction, we establish an if-and-only-if condition for the existence of a $d$-dimensional Symmetric Informationally Complete quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 John B. DeBrota , Blake C. Stacey

This work shows an approach to reduce the dimensionality of matrix representations of quantum channels. It is achieved by finding a base of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices which represent quantum channels. Next, this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Paulina Lewandowska , Ryszard Kukulski , Łukasz Pawela

Modern applications in quantum computation and quantum communication require the precise characterization of quantum states and quantum channels. In practice, this means that one has to determine the quantum capacity of a physical system in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 D. Bruns , J. Sperling , S. Scheel

We give a sufficient condition that an operator sum representation of a separable quantum channel in terms of product operators is the unique product representation for that channel, and then provide examples of such channels for any number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Scott M. Cohen

Present-day quantum devices require precise implementation of desired quantum channels. To characterize the quality of implementation one uses the average operation fidelity $F$, defined as the fidelity between an initial pure state and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Igor Chełstowski , Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć , Karol Życzkowski

A variety of tasks in quantum control, ranging from purification and cooling, to quantum stabilization and open-system simulation, rely on the ability to implement a target quantum channel over a specified time interval within prescribed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Francesco Ticozzi , Lorenza Viola

We explore the task of optimal quantum channel identification, and in particular the estimation of a general one parameter quantum process. We derive new characterizations of optimality and apply the results to several examples including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mohan Sarovar , G. J. Milburn

The control of quantum systems has been proven to possess trap-free optimization landscapes under the satisfaction of proper assumptions. However, many details of the landscape geometry and their influence on search efficiency still need to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Yidian Fan , Re-Bing Wu , Tak-San Ho , Gaurav V. Bhole , Herschel Rabitz

Network tomography refers to the use of inference techniques for inferring internal network states from end-to-end probes. Quantum probes, implemented by sending blocks of $n$ coherent-state pulses augmented with continuous-variable (CV)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yufei Zheng , Zihao Gong , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley