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Experimentally quantifying entanglement and coherence are extremely important for quantum resource theory. However, because the quantum state tomography requires exponentially growing measurements with the number of qubits, it is hard to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Yue Dai , Yuli Dong , Zhenyu Xu , Wenlong You , Chengjie Zhang , Otfried Gühne

Stabilizer states form an important class of states in quantum information, and are of central importance in quantum error correction. Here, we provide an algorithm for deciding whether one stabilizer (target) state can be obtained from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Axel Dahlberg , Stephanie Wehner

Stabilizer states along with Clifford manipulations (unitary transformations and measurements) thereof -- despite being efficiently simulable on a classical computer -- are an important tool in quantum information processing, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Ashlesha Patil , Saikat Guha

We show that the quantum measurement known as the pretty good measurement can be used to identify an unknown quantum state picked from any set of $n$ mixed states that have pairwise fidelities upper-bounded by a constant below 1, given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Ashley Montanaro

In this work, we consider the fundamental task of quantum state certification: given copies of an unknown quantum state $\rho$, test whether it matches some target state $\sigma$ or is $\epsilon$-far from it. For certifying $d$-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Chirag Wadhwa , Sitan Chen

As quantum hardware scales toward fault tolerant operation, the demand for correct quantum error correction (QEC) circuits far outpaces manual design capacity. AI agents offer a promising path to automating this synthesis, yet no benchmark…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Andres Paz , Christian Tarta , Cordelia Yuqiao Li , Mayee Sun , Sarju Patel , Sylvie Lausier

Stabiliser states play a central role in the theory of quantum computation. For example, they are used to encode computational basis states in the most common quantum error correction schemes. Arbitrary quantum states admit many stabiliser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Nadish de Silva , Ming Yin , Sergii Strelchuk

In this paper we estimate the fidelity of stabilizer and CSS codes. First, we derive a lower bound on the fidelity of a stabilizer code via its quantum enumerator. Next, we find the average quantum enumerators of the ensembles of finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-10 Alexei Ashikhmin

We establish lower-bounds on the number of resource states, also known as magic states, needed to perform various quantum computing tasks, treating stabilizer operations as free. Our bounds apply to adaptive computations using measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Michael Beverland , Earl Campbell , Mark Howard , Vadym Kliuchnikov

The stabiliser formalism allows the efficient description of a sizeable class of pure as well as mixed quantum states of N-qubit systems. That same formalism has important applications in the field of quantum error correcting codes, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Koenraad M. R. Audenaert , Martin B. Plenio

Large-scale quantum computation is likely to require massive quantum error correction (QEC). QEC codes and circuits are described via the stabilizer formalism, which represents stabilizer states by keeping track of the operators that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Héctor J. García , Igor L. Markov , Andrew W. Cross

Verifying prepared quantum states is crucial for hybrid systems whose subsystems may have different local dimensions. We present a generalized stabilizer framework and associated test that apply to general multi-qudit states, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiao-Dong Zhang , Bin-Bin Cai , Song Lin

The task of testing whether two uncharacterized quantum devices behave in the same way is crucial for benchmarking near-term quantum computers and quantum simulators, but has so far remained open for continuous-variable quantum systems. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Ya-Dong Wu , Yan Zhu , Ge Bai , Yuexuan Wang , Giulio Chiribella

Quantum states are very delicate, so it is likely some sort of quantum error correction will be necessary to build reliable quantum computers. The theory of quantum error-correcting codes has some close ties to and some striking differences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-17 Daniel Gottesman

The impossibility of simultaneously cloning non-orthogonal states lies at the foundations of quantum theory. Even when allowing for approximation errors, cloning an arbitrary unknown pure state requires as many initial copies as needed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Nikhil Bansal , Matthias C. Caro , Gaurav Mahajan

We study the power of local test for bipartite quantum states. Our central result is that, for properties of bipartite pure states, unitary invariance on one part implies an optimal (over all global testers) local tester acting only on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Kean Chen , Qisheng Wang , Zhicheng Zhang

Fault tolerant quantum computing relies on the ability to detect and correct errors, which in quantum error correction codes is typically achieved by projectively measuring multi-qubit parity operators and by conditioning operations on the…

Stabilizer states are a prime resource for a number of applications in quantum information science, such as secret-sharing and measurement-based quantum computation. This motivates us to study the entanglement of noisy stabilizer states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Kenneth Goodenough , Aqil Sajjad , Eneet Kaur , Saikat Guha , Don Towsley

We study the problem of finding a (pure) product state with optimal fidelity to an unknown $n$-qubit quantum state $\rho$, given copies of $\rho$. This is a basic instance of a fundamental question in quantum learning: is it possible to…

We introduce a reliable compressive procedure to uniquely characterize any given low-rank quantum measurement using a minimal set of probe states that is based solely on data collected from the unknown measurement itself. The procedure is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 I. Gianani , Y. S. Teo , V. Cimini , H. Jeong , G. Leuchs , M. Barbieri , L. L. Sanchez-Soto