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Quantum algorithms for ground-state energy estimation of chemical systems require a high-quality initial state. However, initial state preparation is commonly either neglected entirely, or assumed to be solved by a simple product state like…

A basic building block of many quantum algorithms is the Phase Estimation algorithm (PEA). It estimates an eigenphase $\phi$ of a unitary operator $U$ using a copy of the corresponding eigenstate $|\phi\rangle$. Suppose, in place of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Avatar Tulsi

As fully fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of solving useful problems remain a distant goal, we anticipate an era of "early fault tolerance" where limited error correction is available. We propose a framework for designing early…

Quantum state smoothing is a technique to estimate an unknown true state of an open quantum system based on partial measurement information both prior and posterior to the time of interest. In this paper, we show that the smoothed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Kiarn T. Laverick , Ivonne Guevara , Howard M. Wiseman

In this paper, we explore an efficient online algorithm for quantum state estimation based on a matrix-exponentiated gradient method previously used in the context of machine learning. The state update is governed by a learning rate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 Akram Youssry , Christopher Ferrie , Marco Tomamichel

We describe an optimized, self-correcting procedure for the Bayesian inference of pure quantum states. By analyzing the history of measurement outcomes at each step, the procedure returns the most likely pure state, as well as the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

Phase estimation in quantum interferometry is a major scenario where the quantum advantage is significantly revealed. Recently, the optimal finite-dimensional probe states (OFPSs) for phase estimation in two-mode quantum interferometry have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jin-Feng Qin , Jing Liu

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a cornerstone algorithm for extracting Hamiltonian eigenvalues, but its standard, eigenstate-centric form relies on carefully prepared coherent inputs that are costly or impractical for many strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Stefano Scali , Josh Kirsopp , Antonio Márquez Romero , Michał Krompiec

Quantum simulation of molecular electronic structure is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, achieving chemically accurate predictions for strongly correlated systems requires quantum phase estimation (QPE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Shota Kanasugi , Riki Toshio , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima

Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) stands as a pivotal quantum computing subroutine that necessitates an inverse Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT). However, it is imperative to recognize that enhancing the precision of the estimation inevitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Chen-Yu Liu , Chu-Hsuan Abraham Lin , Kuan-Cheng Chen

Quantum state estimation aims at determining the quantum state from observed data. Estimating the full state can require considerable efforts, but one is often only interested in a few properties of the state, such as the fidelity with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Xikun Li , Jiangwei Shang , Hui Khoon Ng , Berthold-Georg Englert

We numerically investigate quantum circuit elementary-gate level instantiations of the standard Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) algorithm for the task of computing the ground-state energy of a quantum magnet; the disordered fully-connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Elijah Pelofske , Stephan Eidenbenz

Many researchers have been heavily investigated on quantum phase estimation (QPE) algorithms to find the unknown phase, since QPE is the core building block of the most quantum algorithms such as the Shor's factoring algorithm, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Hamed Mohammadbagherpoor , Young-Hyun Oh , Anand Singh , Xianqing Yu , Andy J. Rindos

Accurately inferring the state of a quantum device from the results of measurements is a crucial task in building quantum information processing hardware. The predominant state estimation procedure, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Robin Blume-Kohout

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a promising quantum algorithm for obtaining molecular ground-state energies with chemical accuracy. However, its computational cost, dominated by the Hamiltonian 1-norm $\lambda$ and the cost of the block…

The accumulation of noise in quantum computers is the dominant issue stymieing the push of quantum algorithms beyond their classical counterparts. We do not expect to be able to afford the overhead required for quantum error correction in…

We present a universal algorithm for the optimal quantum state estimation of an arbitrary finite dimensional system. The algorithm specifies a physically realizable positive operator valued measurement (POVM) on a finite number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Radoslav Derka , Vladimir Buzek , Artur Ekert

Under suitable assumptions, the quantum phase estimation (QPE) algorithm is able to achieve Heisenberg-limited precision scaling in estimating the ground state energy. However, QPE requires a large number of ancilla qubits and large circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Lin Lin , Yu Tong

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

Filtering is an important technique in quantum computing used for isolating or enhancing some specific states of quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we analyze the performance of filters based on the quantum phase estimation (QPE)…