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The probability distribution of a measure of non-stabilizerness, also known as magic, is investigated for Haar-random pure quantum states. Focusing on the stabilizer R\'enyi entropies, the associated probability density functions (PDFs) are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Daniele Iannotti , Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Alioscia Hamma

We consider an infinite-range interacting quantum spin-1/2 model, undergoing periodic kicking and dissipatively coupled with an environment. In the thermodynamic limit, it is described by classical mean-field equations that can show regular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Gianluca Passarelli , Procolo Lucignano , Davide Rossini , Angelo Russomanno

Magic-state resource theory is a fundamental framework with far-reaching applications in quantum error correction and the classical simulation of quantum systems. Recent advances have significantly deepened our understanding of magic as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Lennart Bittel , Lorenzo Leone

Quantum technologies exploit entanglement to enhance various tasks beyond their classical limits including computation, communication and measurements. Quantum metrology aims to increase the precision of a measured quantity that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Bálint Koczor , Suguru Endo , Tyson Jones , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Simon C. Benjamin

We consider the problem of quantum-state tomography under the assumption that the state is pure, and more generally that its rank is bounded by a given value $r$. In this scenario two notions of informationally complete measurements emerge:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Charles H. Baldwin , Ivan H. Deutsch , Amir Kalev

We propose a method for classical simulation of finite-dimensional quantum systems, based on sampling from a quasiprobability distribution, i.e., a generalized Wigner function. Our construction applies to all finite dimensions, with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Robert Raussendorf , Juani Bermejo-Vega , Emily Tyhurst , Cihan Okay , Michael Zurel

Non-stabilizerness (colloquially "magic") characterizes genuinely quantum (beyond-Clifford) operations necessary for preparation of quantum states, and can be measured by stabilizer R\'enyi entropy (SRE). For permutationally symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Tanausú Hernández-Yanes , Piotr Sierant , Jakub Zakrzewski , Marcin Płodzień

Non-stabilizerness, or magic, is a resource for universal quantum computation in most fault-tolerant architectures; access to states with non-stabilizerness allows for non-classically simulable quantum computation to be performed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Benjamin Stratton

In quantum statistical mechanics, it is of fundamental interest to understand how close the bipartite entanglement entropy of eigenstates of quantum chaotic Hamiltonians is to maximal. For random pure states in the Hilbert space, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-30 Lev Vidmar , Marcos Rigol

Classically hard to simulate quantum states, or "magic states", are prerequisites to quantum advantage, highlighting an apparent separation between classically and quantumly tractable problems. Classically simulable states such as Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Luke Coffman , Graeme Smith , Xun Gao

We prove that magic states from the Clifford hierarchy give optimal solutions for tasks involving nonlocality and entropic uncertainty with respect to Pauli measurements. For both the nonlocality and uncertainty tasks, stabilizer states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Mark Howard

We study the non-stabilizer resources required to achieve informational completeness in single-setting quantum state estimation scenarios. We consider fixed-basis projective measurements preceded by quantum circuits acting on $n$-qubit…

In quantum computing, the nonstabilizerness of quantum operations is crucial for understanding and quantifying quantum speedups. In this study, we explore the phenomena of nonstabilizerness of the quantum SWITCH, a novel structure that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Yin Mo , Chengkai Zhu , Zhiping Liu , Mingrui Jing , Xin Wang

Coherence, treated as a resource in quantum information theory, is a basis-dependent quantity. Looking for states that have constant coherence under canonical changes of basis yields highly symmetric structures in state space. For the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 Blake C. Stacey

We investigate non-stabilizerness, also known as ``magic,'' to understand criticality and exceptional points in non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems. Our focus is on parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric spin chains, specifically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Doru Sticlet , Balázs Dóra

We introduce a new class of quantum many-particle entangled states, called the Dicke squeezed (or DS) states, which can be used to improve the precision in quantum metrology beyond the standard quantum limit. We show that the enhancement in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhen Zhang , Luming Duan

Quantum state discrimination plays a central role in defining the possible and impossible operations through a restricted class of quantum operations. A seminal result by Bennett et al. [Phys. Rev. A 59, 1070 (1999)] demonstrates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Hyukjoon Kwon

We introduce a novel measure for the quantum property of nonstabilizerness - commonly known as "magic" - by considering the R\'enyi entropy of the probability distribution associated to a pure quantum state given by the square of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lorenzo Leone , Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Alioscia Hamma

Magic is a property of quantum states that enables universal fault-tolerant quantum computing using simple sets of gate operations. Understanding the mechanisms by which magic is created or destroyed is, therefore, a crucial step towards…

An important question of quantum information is to characterize genuinely quantum (beyond-Clifford) resources necessary for universal quantum computing. Here, we use the Pauli spectrum to quantify how magic, beyond Clifford, typical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Xhek Turkeshi , Anatoly Dymarsky , Piotr Sierant