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Phase kickback is a fundamental primitive that is used in many quantum algorithms, such as quantum phase estimation. Here we observe that by using information about the controlled unitary, we can replace the controlled unitary with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Mirko Amico

A new method for compiling quantum algorithms is proposed and tested for a three qubit system. The proposed method is to decompose a a unitary matrix U, into a product of simpler U j via a neural network. These U j can then be decomposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Michael Swaddle , Lyle Noakes , Liam Salter , Harry Smallbone , Jingbo Wang

Quantum information scrambling is a unitary process that destroys local correlations and spreads information throughout the system, effectively hiding it in nonlocal degrees of freedom. In principle, unscrambling this information is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Lorenzo Leone , Seth Lloyd , Alioscia Hamma

Quantized integrable systems can be made to perform universal quantum computation by the application of a global time-varying control. The action-angle variables of the integrable system function as qubits or qudits, which can be coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Seth Lloyd , Simone Montangero

It is commonly stated that decoherence in open quantum systems is due to growing entanglement with an environment. In practice, however, surprisingly often decoherence may equally well be described by random unitary dynamics without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-29 Julius Helm , Walter T. Strunz

Despite rapid progress in the field, it is still challenging to discover new ways to take advantage of quantum computation: all quantum algorithms need to be designed by hand, and quantum mechanics is notoriously counterintuitive. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Leopoldo Sarra , Kevin Ellis , Florian Marquardt

A goal of the emerging field of quantum control is to develop methods for quantum technologies to function robustly in the presence of noise. Central issues are the fundamental limitations on the available information about quantum systems…

High fidelity coherent control of quantum systems is critical to building quantum devices and quantum computers. We provide a general optimal control framework for designing control sequences that account for hardware control distortions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Ian N. Hincks , Christopher Granade , Troy W. Borneman , D. G. Cory

We study the problem of driving an unknown initial mixed quantum state onto a known pure state without using unitary transformations. This can be achieved, in an efficient manner, with the help of sequential measurements on at least two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Roa , G. Olivares

Scalable quantum computation in realistic devices requires that precise control can be implemented efficiently in the presence of decoherence and operational errors. We propose a general constructive procedure for designing robust unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-21 Kaveh Khodjasteh , Lorenza Viola

We show the following: a randomly chosen pure state as a resource for measurement-based quantum computation, is - with overwhelming probability - of no greater help to a polynomially bounded classical control computer, than a string of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-21 Michael J. Bremner , Caterina Mora , Andreas Winter

A Quantum Computer is a new type of computer which can solve problems such as factoring and database search very efficiently. The usefulness of a quantum computer is limited by the effect of two different types of errors, decoherence and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevin M. Obenland , Alvin M. Despain

Pseudo-random operators consist of sets of operators that exhibit many of the important statistical features of uniformly distributed random operators. Such pseudo-random sets of operators are most useful whey they may be parameterized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph Emerson

We investigate ancilla-free linear combination of unitaries (LCU) as a framework for approximating complex quantum circuits. This is particularly effective for quantum optimization algorithms, where candidate solutions can be evaluated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Almudena Carrera Vazquez , Daniel J. Egger , Stefan Woerner

A controlled evolution generated by nonlinear interactions is required to perform full manipulation of a quantum system, and such control is only coherent when the rate of nonlinearity is large compared to the rate of decoherence. As a…

We show that universal quantum computation can be achieved in the standard pure-state circuit model while, at any time, the entanglement entropy of all bipartitions is small---even tending to zero with growing system size. The result is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Maarten Van den Nest

Unitary $k$-designs are distributions of unitary gates that match the Haar distribution up to its $k$-th statistical moment. They are a crucial resource for randomized quantum protocols. However, their implementation on encoded logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Zihan Cheng , Eric Huang , Vedika Khemani , Michael J. Gullans , Matteo Ippoliti

We present a decomposition technique that uses non-deterministic circuits to approximate an arbitrary single-qubit unitary to within distance $\epsilon$ and requires significantly fewer non-Clifford gates than existing techniques. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 Adam Paetznick , Krysta M. Svore

We study efficient generations of random diagonal-unitary matrices, an ensemble of unitary matrices diagonal in a given basis with randomly distributed phases for their eigenvalues. Despite the simple algebraic structure, they cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-31 Yoshifumi Nakata , Mio Murao

The engineering of quantum devices has reached the stage where we now have small scale quantum processors containing multiple interacting qubits within them. Simple quantum circuits have been demonstrated and scaling up to larger numbers is…