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When an informationally complete measurement is not available, the reconstruction of the density operator that describes the state of a quantum system can be accomplish, in a reliable way, by adopting the maximum entropy principle (MaxEnt…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Diego Tielas , Marcelo Losada , Lorena Rebón , Federico Holik

Solving linear systems of equations is a frequently encountered problem in machine learning and optimisation. Given a matrix $A$ and a vector $\mathbf b$ the task is to find the vector $\mathbf x$ such that $A \mathbf x = \mathbf b$. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Leonard Wossnig , Zhikuan Zhao , Anupam Prakash

The energy gap is calculated for the ground state quantum computer circuit, which was recently proposed by Mizel et.al. When implementing a quantum algorithm by Hamiltonians containing only pairwise interaction, the inverse of energy gap…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wenjin Mao

Measuring properties of quantum systems is a fundamental problem in quantum mechanics. We provide a simple method for estimating the expectation value of observables with an unknown quantum state. The idea is to use a data structure to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Naixu Guo , Feng Pan , Patrick Rebentrost

We show that measuring any two quantum states by a random POVM, under a suitable definition of randomness, gives probability distributions having total variation distance at least a universal constant times the Frobenius distance between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pranab Sen

In the problem of quantum state tomography, one is given $n$ copies of an unknown rank-$r$ mixed state $\rho \in \mathbb{C}^{d \times d}$ and asked to produce an estimator of $\rho$. In this work, we present the debiased Keyl's algorithm,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Angelos Pelecanos , Jack Spilecki , John Wright

A statistical distinguishability based on relative entropy characterises the fitness of quantum states for phase estimation. This criterion is employed in the context of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and used to interpolate between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gabriel A. Durkin , Jonathan P. Dowling

In the paper of F.A. Mele, A.A. Mele, L. Bittel, J. Eisert, V. Giovannetti, L. Lami, L. Leone, S.F.E. Oliviero, ArXiv:2405.01431, estimates for the trace-norm distance between two quantum Gaussian states in terms of the mean vectors and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 A. S. Holevo

Block-encodings have become one of the most common oracle assumptions in the circuit model. I present an algorithm that uses von Neumann's measurement procedure to measure a phase, using time evolution on a block-encoded Hamiltonian as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 S. E. Skelton

We consider a quantum walk where a detector repeatedly probes the system with fixed rate $1/\tau$ until the walker is detected. This is a quantum version of the first-passage problem. We focus on the total probability, $P_{\mathrm{det}}$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Felix Thiel , Itay Mualem , Dror Meidan , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

We explore potential quantum speedups for the fundamental problem of testing the properties of closeness and $k$-wise uniformity of probability distributions. Closeness testing is the problem of distinguishing whether two $n$-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Jingquan Luo , Qisheng Wang , Lvzhou Li

Estimating the difference between quantum data is crucial in quantum computing. However, as typical characterizations of quantum data similarity, the trace distance and quantum fidelity are believed to be exponentially-hard to evaluate in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Ranyiliu Chen , Zhixin Song , Xuanqiang Zhao , Xin Wang

We give two quantum algorithms for solving semidefinite programs (SDPs) providing quantum speed-ups. We consider SDP instances with $m$ constraint matrices, each of dimension $n$, rank at most $r$, and sparsity $s$. The first algorithm…

There has been significant interest in understanding how practical constraints on contemporary quantum devices impact the complexity of quantum learning. For the classic question of tomography, recent work tightly characterized the copy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Sitan Chen , Jerry Li , Allen Liu

We present an iterative method to solve the multipartite quantum state estimation problem. We demonstrate convergence for any informationally complete set of generalized quantum measurements in every finite dimension. Our method exhibits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Daniel Uzcategui Contreras , Gabriel Senno , Dardo Goyeneche

We investigate the computational complexity of the Local Hamiltonian (LH) problem and the approximation of the Quantum Partition Function (QPF), two central problems in quantum many-body physics and quantum complexity theory. Both problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Nai-Hui Chia , Yu-Ching Shen

Price signals from distribution networks (DNs) guide energy communities (ECs) in adjusting their energy usage, enabling effective coordination for reliable power system operation. However, this coordinated operation faces significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Yingrui Zhuang , Lin Cheng , Yuji Cao , Tongxin Li , Ning Qi , Yan Xu , Yue Chen

The performance of a quantum information processing protocol is ultimately judged by distinguishability measures that quantify how distinguishable the actual result of the protocol is from the ideal case. The most prominent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Soorya Rethinasamy , Rochisha Agarwal , Kunal Sharma , Mark M. Wilde

We construct classical algorithms computing an approximation of the ground state energy of an arbitrary $k$-local Hamiltonian acting on $n$ qubits. We first consider the setting where a good ``guiding state'' is available, which is the main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 François Le Gall

In this paper we consider symmetric, positive semidefinite (SPSD) matrix $A$ and present two algorithms for computing the $p$-Schatten norm $\|A\|_p$. The first algorithm works for any SPSD matrix $A$. The second algorithm works for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Vladimir Braverman