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Quantum purity amplification (QPA) provides a novel approach to counteracting the pervasive noise that degrades quantum states. We present the optimal QPA protocol for general quantum systems and global noise, resolving a two-decade open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zhaoyi Li , Honghao Fu , Takuya Isogawa , Caio Silva , Isaac Chuang

Quantum error mitigation techniques can reduce noise on current quantum hardware without the need for fault-tolerant quantum error correction. For instance, the quasiprobability method simulates a noise-free quantum computer using a noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Christophe Piveteau , David Sutter , Stefan Woerner

Due to the sparse connectivity of superconducting quantum computers, qubit communication via SWAP gates accounts for the vast majority of overhead in quantum programs. We introduce a method for improving the speed and reliability of SWAPs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Pranav Gokhale , Teague Tomesh , Martin Suchara , Frederic T. Chong

Quantum computers are now on the brink of outperforming their classical counterparts. One way to demonstrate the advantage of quantum computation is through quantum random sampling performed on quantum computing devices. However, existing…

We investigate novel protocols for entanglement purification of qubit Bell pairs. Employing genetic algorithms for the design of the purification circuit, we obtain shorter circuits achieving higher success rates and better final fidelities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Stefan Krastanov , Victor V. Albert , Liang Jiang

Quantum entanglement is essential to the development of quantum computation, communications, and technology. The controlled SWAP test, widely used for state comparison, can be adapted to an efficient and useful test for entanglement of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Steph Foulds , Viv Kendon , Tim Spiller

Extracting information from quantum devices has long been a crucial problem in the field of quantum mechanics. By performing elaborate measurements, quantum state tomography, an important and fundamental tool in quantum science and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Yu Wang , Keren Li

We find the necessary and sufficient condition under which two two-qubit mixed states can be purified into a pure maximally entangled state by local operations and classical communication. The optimal protocol for such transformation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enric Jane

We introduce an entanglement distillation (purification) protocol for supersinglet states composed of N qubits. The supersinglet state we target is a total spin zero state with zero spin variance, and has a fully entangled structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Saeed Ahmad , Shuang Li , Jonathan Raghoonanan , Kaixuan Zhou , Valentin Ivannikov , Tim Byrnes

Quantum state purification, which operates not by identifying and correcting specific errors but by repeatedly projecting multiple noisy copies onto special subspaces, provides a syndrome-free alternative to quantum error correction.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Xing-Chen Guo , Benchi Zhao , Xin Wang

Quantum state tomography and other measures of the global properties of a quantum state are indispensable tools in understanding many body physics through quantum simulators. Unfortunately, the number of experimental measurements of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Yariv Yanay , Charles Tahan

Qubit readout is commonly performed by thresholding a collection of analog detector signals to obtain a sequence of single-shot bit values. The intrinsic irreversibility of the mapping from analog to digital signals discards soft…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-25 B. D'Anjou , W. A. Coish

Entanglement purification describes a primitive in quantum information processing, where several copies of noisy quantum states are distilled into few copies of nearly-pure states of high quality via local operations and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Lina Vandré , Otfried Gühne

Noise affecting qubit preparation and measurements accounts for a significant fraction of errors in quantum information processing. This is especially critical in tasks like variational quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Jaemin Kim , Seungchan Seo , Jiyoung Yun , Benjamin Lienhard , Joonwoo Bae

Quantum purity amplification (QPA) is the task of coherently transforming $n$ copies of a mixed state into high-fidelity copies of a chosen eigenstate. We solve QPA in the general setting of $n$ input copies, $m$ output copies, arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Zhaoyi Li , Elias Theil , Aram W. Harrow , Isaac Chuang

In this paper we consider the purification of a quantum state using the information obtained from a continuous measurement record, where the classical measurement record is digitized to a single bit per measurement after the measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-05 Jason F. Ralph , Neil P. Oxtoby

We propose a scheme for optimal Gaussian purification of coherent states from several imperfect copies. The proposal is experimentally demonstrated for the case of two copies of a coherent state sent through independent noisy channels. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ulrik L. Andersen , Radim Filip , Jaromir Fiurasek , Vincent Josse , Gerd Leuchs

When estimating an unknown single pure qubit state, the optimum fidelity is 2/3. As it is well known, the value 2/3 can be achieved in one step, by a single ideal measurement of the polarization along a random direction. I analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Lajos Diosi

Entanglement purification is essential for quantum technologies; yet, rigorous bounds on the success probability for universal protocols -- those requiring no prior knowledge about the input state -- have remained underexplored. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Alexandre C. Orthey , Aby Philip , Tulja Varun Kondra , Alexander Streltsov

Extracting information efficiently from quantum systems is a major component of quantum information processing tasks. Randomized measurements, or classical shadows, enable predicting many properties of arbitrary quantum states using few…