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We study a generalization of entanglement testing which we call the "hidden cut problem." Taking as input copies of an $n$-qubit pure state which is product across an unknown bipartition, the goal is to learn precisely where the state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Adam Bouland , Tudor Giurgica-Tiron , John Wright

Beyond computer science, quantum complexity theory can potentially revolutionize multiple branches of physics, ranging from quantum many-body systems to quantum field theory. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Nengkun Yu , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We define a quantum learning task called agnostic tomography, where given copies of an arbitrary state $\rho$ and a class of quantum states $\mathcal{C}$, the goal is to output a succinct description of a state that approximates $\rho$ at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Sabee Grewal , Vishnu Iyer , William Kretschmer , Daniel Liang

We initiate the study of quantum agnostic learning of phase states with respect to a function class $\mathsf{C}\subseteq \{c:\{0,1\}^n\rightarrow \{0,1\}\}$: given copies of an unknown $n$-qubit state $|\psi\rangle$ which has fidelity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Arkopal Dutt , Alexandru Gheorghiu , Michael de Oliveira

We propose a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm to encode a given arbitrarily quantum state $\vert \Psi \rangle$ onto an optimal quantum circuit $\hat{\mathcal{C}}$ with a finite number of single- and two-qubit quantum gates. The proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Tomonori Shirakawa , Hiroshi Ueda , Seiji Yunoki

In quantum information theory, the reliable and effective detection of entanglement is of paramount importance. However, given an unknown state, assessing its entanglement is a challenging task. To attack this problem, we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Jochen Szangolies , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

Quantum computing has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. It is one of the promising candidates for the next-generation computing paradigms. Basically, there are two technical lines to realize quantum computing. One is composing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Nyau Fisn , Houren Fu

We consider the tasks of learning quantum states, measurements and channels generated by continuous-variable (CV) quantum circuits. This family of circuits is suited to describe optical quantum technologies and in particular it includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Matteo Rosati

Loading classical data into quantum registers is one of the most important primitives of quantum computing. While the complexity of preparing a generic quantum state is exponential in the number of qubits, in many practical tasks the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Fereshte Mozafari , Giovanni De Micheli , Yuxiang Yang

Coherent states, known as displaced vacuum states, play an important role in quantum information processing, quantum machine learning,and quantum optics. In this article, two ways to digitally prepare coherent states in quantum circuits are…

We study the classical compilation of quantum circuits for the preparation of matrix product states (MPS), which are quantum states of low entanglement with an efficient classical description. Our algorithm represents a near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Refik Mansuroglu , Norbert Schuch

Matrix product states provide efficient classical descriptions of quantum systems that may be useful as reference states for quantum algorithms such as quantum phase estimation and quantum-selected configuration interaction. Shallow circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Angus Mingare , Peter V. Coveney

We demonstrate how machine learning is able to model experiments in quantum physics. Quantum entanglement is a cornerstone for upcoming quantum technologies such as quantum computation and quantum cryptography. Of particular interest are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Thomas Adler , Manuel Erhard , Mario Krenn , Johannes Brandstetter , Johannes Kofler , Sepp Hochreiter

Black-box quantum-state preparation is a variant of quantum-state preparation where we want to construct an $n$-qubit state $|\psi_c\rangle \propto \sum_x c(x) |x\rangle$ with the amplitudes $c(x)$ given as a (quantum) oracle. This variant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Lorenzo Laneve

We present a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for obtaining the energy spectrum of a physical system, i.e. the differences between the eigenvalues of the system's Hamiltonian, provided that the spectrum of interest contains at most a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Hefeng Wang , S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

We consider the task of deciding whether an unknown qubit state falls in a prescribed neighborhood of a reference state. We assume that several copies of the unknown state are given and apply a unitary operation pairwise on them combined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-27 Orsolya Kálmán , Tamás Kiss

We show that measuring pairs of qubits in the Bell basis can be used to obtain a simple quantum algorithm for efficiently identifying an unknown stabilizer state of n qubits. The algorithm uses O(n) copies of the input state and fails with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 Ashley Montanaro

Characterizing quantum many-body phase structure is a major goal for quantum simulation. Here, we employ an unsupervised learning approach based on diffusion maps to learn phase transitions in bosonic lattice systems described by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Bihui Zhu

We examine the complexity of learning the distributions produced by finite-state quantum sources. We show how prior techniques for learning hidden Markov models can be adapted to the quantum generator model to find that the analogous state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-21 Brendan Juba

Quantum mechanics fundamentally forbids deterministic discrimination of quantum states and processes. However, the ability to optimally distinguish various classes of quantum data is an important primitive in quantum information science. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Hongxiang Chen , Leonard Wossnig , Simone Severini , Hartmut Neven , Masoud Mohseni