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We introduce the problem of *shadow tomography*: given an unknown $D$-dimensional quantum mixed state $\rho$, as well as known two-outcome measurements $E_{1},\ldots,E_{M}$, estimate the probability that $E_{i}$ accepts $\rho$, to within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Scott Aaronson

Among recent insights into learning quantum states, online learning and shadow tomography procedures are notable for their ability to accurately predict expectation values even of adaptively chosen observables. In contrast to the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Asad Raza , Matthias C. Caro , Jens Eisert , Sumeet Khatri

We study classical simulation of quantum computation, taking the Gottesman-Knill theorem as a starting point. We show how each Clifford circuit can be reduced to an equivalent, manifestly simulatable circuit (normal form). This provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 M. Van den Nest

A general quantum circuit can be simulated classically in exponential time. If it has a planar layout, then a tensor-network contraction algorithm due to Markov and Shi has a runtime exponential in the square root of its size, or more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 David Gosset , Daniel Grier , Alex Kerzner , Luke Schaeffer

We investigate the advantages of using autoregressive neural quantum states as ansatze for classical shadow tomography to improve its predictive power. We introduce a novel estimator for optimizing the cross-entropy loss function using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Wirawat Kokaew , Bohdan Kulchytskyy , Shunji Matsuura , Pooya Ronagh

Classical simulation of quantum circuits plays a crucial role in validating quantum hardware and delineating the boundaries of quantum advantage. Among the most effective simulation techniques are those based on the stabilizer extent, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Giulio Camillo , Filipa C. R. Peres , Markus Heinrich , Juani Bermejo-Vega

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver approach to the electronic structure problem on a quantum computer involves measurement of the Hamiltonian expectation value. Formally, quantum mechanics allows one to measure all mutually commuting or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Tzu-Ching Yen , Vladyslav Verteletskyi , Artur F. Izmaylov

Characterising quantum processes is a key task in and constitutes a challenge for the development of quantum technologies, especially at the noisy intermediate scale of today's devices. One method for characterising processes is randomised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Ingo Roth , Richard Kueng , Shelby Kimmel , Yi-Kai Liu , David Gross , Jens Eisert , Martin Kliesch

We describe a new shadow tomography algorithm that uses $n=\Theta(\sqrt{m}\log m/\epsilon^2)$ samples, for $m$ measurements and additive error $\epsilon$, which is independent of the dimension of the quantum state being learned. This stands…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Pulkit Sinha

The computation of \(\operatorname{tr}(AB)\) is essential in quantum science and artificial intelligence, yet classical methods for \( d \)-dimensional matrices \( A \) and \( B \) require \( O(d^2) \) complexity, which becomes infeasible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Yu Wang

Solving the electronic structure problem of molecules and solids to high accuracy is a major challenge in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. The rapid emergence and development of quantum computers offer a promising route to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Benchen Huang , Yi-Ting Chen , Brajesh Gupt , Martin Suchara , Anh Tran , Sam McArdle , Giulia Galli

Every quantum physical system can be considered the ''shadow'' of a special kind of classical system. The system proposed here is classical mainly because each observable function has a well precise value on each state of the system: an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio Cassa

Quantum learning encounters fundamental challenges when estimating non-linear properties, owing to the inherent linearity of quantum mechanics. Although recent advances in single-copy randomized measurement protocols have achieved optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Zhenyu Du , Yifan Tang , Andreas Elben , Ingo Roth , Jens Eisert , Zhenhuan Liu

Program obfuscation aims to hide the inner workings of a program while preserving its functionality. In the quantum setting, recent works have obtained obfuscation schemes for specialized classes of quantum circuits. For instance, Bartusek,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Mi-Ying Huang , Er-Cheng Tang

We study the sample complexity of shadow tomography in the high-precision regime under realistic measurement constraints. Given an unknown $d$-dimensional quantum state $\rho$ and a known set of observables $\{O_i\}_{i=1}^m$, the goal is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Senrui Chen , Weiyuan Gong , Sisi Zhou

Quantum probes that enable enhanced exploration and characterization of complex systems are central to modern science, spanning applications from biology to astrophysics and chemical design. In large many-body quantum systems, interactions…

For the surface code, topological quantum order allows one to encode logical quantum information in a robust, long-range entangled many-body quantum state. However, if an observer probes this quantum state by performing measurements on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Finn Eckstein , Bo Han , Simon Trebst , Guo-Yi Zhu

Detection of entanglement is an indispensable step to practical quantum computation and communication. Compared with the conventional entanglement witness method based on fidelity, we propose a flexible, machine learning assisted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Jue Xu , Qi Zhao

The quantum component in uncertainty relation can be naturally characterized by the quantum coherence of a quantum state, which is of paramount importance in quantum information science. Here, we experimentally investigate quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Lu Liu , Ting Zhang , Xiao Yuan , He Lu

Simulating large quantum systems is the ultimate goal of quantum computing. Variational quantum simulation (VQS) gives us a tool to achieve the goal in near-term devices by distributing the computation load to both classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Kouhei Nakaji , Suguru Endo , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Hideaki Hakoshima