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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

The existence of noncompatible observables in quantum theory makes a direct operational interpretation of two-point correlation functions problematic. Here we challenge such a view by explicitly constructing a measuring scheme that,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Francesco Buscemi , Michele Dall'Arno , Masanao Ozawa , Vlatko Vedral

We give a technique to reduce the error probability of quantum algorithms that determine whether its input has a specified property of interest. The standard process of reducing this error is statistical processing of the results of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Debajyoti Bera , Tharrmashastha P.

We describe an algorithm for using a quantum computer to calculate mean values of observables and the partition function of a quantum system. Our algorithm includes two sub-algorithms. The first sub-algorithm is for calculating, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Robert R. Tucci

Nonlinear properties of quantum states are essential to quantum information and many-body physics, but assessing them experimentally is challenging, as it typically requires multi-copy operations or a large number of measurement settings.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zihao Li , Datong Chen , Dayue Qin , Yuxiang Yang , You Zhou

We provide more sample-efficient versions of some basic routines in quantum data analysis, along with simpler proofs. Particularly, we give a quantum "Threshold Search" algorithm that requires only $O((\log^2 m)/\epsilon^2)$ samples of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Costin Bădescu , Ryan O'Donnell

Quantum estimation of the operators of a system is investigated by analyzing its Liouville space of operators. In this way it is possible to easily derive some general characterization for the sets of observables (i.e. the possible quorums)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. M. D'Ariano , L. Maccone , M. G. A. Paris

We present an optimal quantum algorithm for fidelity estimation between two quantum states when one of them is pure. In particular, the (square root) fidelity of a mixed state to a pure state can be estimated to within additive error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Wang Fang , Qisheng Wang

Concerning state estimation, we will compare two cases. In one case we cannot use the quantum correlations between samples. In the other case, we can use them. In addition, under the later case, we will propose a method which simultaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masahito Hayashi

Quantum tomography is a fundamental technique for characterizing, benchmarking, and verifying quantum states and devices. It plays a crucial role in advancing quantum technologies and deepening our understanding of quantum mechanics.…

Determining the state of a system and measuring properties of its evolution are two of the most important tasks a physicist faces. For the first purpose one can use tomography, a method that after subjecting the system to a number of…

Temporal quantum states generalize the multipartite density operator formalism to the time domain, enabling a unified treatment of quantum systems with both timelike and spacelike correlations. Despite a growing body of temporal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhian Jia , Kavan Modi , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

An importance sampling method based on Generalized Feynman-Kac method has been used to calculate the mean values of quantum observables from quantum correlation functions for many body systems both at zero and finite temperature.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Sumita Datta

Response theory has a successful history of connecting experimental observations with theoretical predictions. Of particular interest is the optical response of matter, from which spectroscopy experiments can be modelled. However, the…

The state overlap, quantified via $\tr[\rho \sigma]$, is a metric widely used to assess the closeness between two quantum states $\rho$ and $\sigma$. Although global state overlap alone does not directly capture entanglement properties, we…

We study the simultaneous estimation of multiple phases as a discretised model for the imaging of a phase object. We identify quantum probe states that provide an enhancement compared to the best quantum scheme for the estimation of each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Peter C. Humphreys , Marco Barbieri , Animesh Datta , Ian A. Walmsley

We show how to find all $k$ marked elements in a list of size $N$ using the optimal number $O(\sqrt{N k})$ of quantum queries and only a polylogarithmic overhead in the gate complexity, in the setting where one has a small quantum memory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Joran van Apeldoorn , Sander Gribling , Harold Nieuwboer

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 address the problem of interacting electrons in an external potential by introducing the occupied spectral density $\rho(\mathbf{r},\omega)$ as fundamental variable. First, we formulate the problem using an embedding framework, and prove…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Andrea Ferretti , Nicola Marzari

Quantum computation is the suitable orthogonal encoding of possibly holistic functional properties into state vectors, followed by a projective measurement.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Karl Svozil