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Experimental procedures are presented for the rapid detection of entanglement of unknown arbitrary quantum states. The methods are based on the entanglement criterion using accessible correlations and the principle of correlation…

Quantum entanglement between particles is expected to allow one to perform tasks that would otherwise be impossible. In quantum sensing and metrology, entanglement is often claimed to enable a precision that cannot be attained with the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Liam P. McGuinness

It is well known that any entangled mixed state in $2\otimes 2$ systems can be purified via infinite copies of the mixed state. But can one distill a pure maximally entangled state from finite copies of a mixed state in any bipartite system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping-Xing Chen , Lin-Mei Liang , Cheng-Zu Li , Ming-Qiu Huang

We introduce a general methodology for quantitative model checking and control synthesis with supermartingale certificates. We show that every specification that is invariant to time shifts admits a stochastic invariant that bounds its…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Alessandro Abate , Mirco Giacobbe , Diptarko Roy

We derive a tight upper bound for the fidelity of a universal N to M qubit cloner, valid for any M \geq N, where the output of the cloner is required to be supported on the symmetric subspace. Our proof is based on the concatenation of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 D. Bruss , A. Ekert , C. Macchiavello

In this paper, we introduce a class of highly entangled real quantum states that cannot be approximated by circuits with $\log$-many non-Clifford gates and prove that Bell sampling enables efficient cross-device verification (or distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Janek Denzler , Santiago Varona , Tommaso Guaita , Jose Carrasco

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

Based on our previous publication [U. Herzog and J. A. Bergou, Phys.Rev. A 71, 050301(R) (2005)] we investigate the optimum measurement for the unambiguous discrimination of two mixed quantum states that occur with given prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ulrike Herzog , Janos A. Bergou

For any pair of quantum states (the hypotheses), the task of binary quantum hypotheses testing is to derive the tradeoff relation between the probability $p_{01}$ of rejecting the null hypothesis and $p_{10}$ of accepting the alternative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Le Phuc Thinh , Michele Dall'Arno , Valerio Scarani

We study an optimum measurement for quantum state discrimination, which maximizes the probability of correct results when the probability of inconclusive results is fixed at a given value. The measurement describes minimum-error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-26 Ulrike Herzog

We consider a single copy of a mixed state of two qubits and show how its fidelity or maximal singlet fraction is related to the entanglement measures concurrence and negativity. We characterize the extreme points of the convex set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank Verstraete , Henri Verschelde

The preparation and certification of quantum states is a fundamental challenge across quantum information technology. We introduce a tomography-free state certification method that lower-bounds the fidelity by estimating expectation values…

The controlled SWAP test for detecting and quantifying entanglement applied to pure qubit states is robust to small errors in the states and efficient for large multi-qubit states (Foulds et al. 2021 Quantum Sci. Technol. 6, 035002…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Steph Foulds , Oliver Prove , Viv Kendon

We consider quantum devices for turning a finite number N of d-level quantum systems in the same unknown pure state \sigma into M>N systems of the same kind, in an approximation of the M-fold tensor product of the state \sigma. In a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Keyl , R. F. Werner

We analyze the complexity of quantum state verification in the context of solving systems of linear equations of the form $A \vec x = \vec b$. We show that any quantum operation that verifies whether a given quantum state is within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Rolando D. Somma , Yigit Subasi

We consider the problem of designing an optimal quantum detector that distinguishes unambiguously between a collection of mixed quantum states. Using arguments of duality in vector space optimization, we derive necessary and sufficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yonina C. Eldar , Mihailo Stojnic , Babak Hassibi

It is a specific type of quantum correlated state that achieves optimal precision in parameterestimation under unitary encoding. We consider the potential experimental limitation on probe entanglement, and find a relation between achievable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Debarupa Saha , Ujjwal Sen

We study how well answer to the question ``Is the given quantum state equal to a certain maximally entangled state?'' using LOCC, in the context of hypothesis testing. Under several locality and invariance conditions, optimal tests will be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masahito Hayashi , Keiji Matsumoto , Yoshiyuki Tsuda

Detection of entanglement in quantum networks consisting of many parties is one of the important steps towards building quantum communication and computation networks. We consider a scenario where the measurement devices used for this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Ivan Šupić , Paul Skrzypczyk , Daniel Cavalcanti

We consider multipartite quantum state discrimination and show that the minimum-error discrimination by separable measurements is closely related to the concept of entanglement witness. Based on the properties of entanglement witness, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Donghoon Ha , Jeong San Kim