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We propose a tomographic protocol for estimating any $ k $-body reduced density matrix ($ k $-RDM) of an $ n $-mode fermionic state, a ubiquitous step in near-term quantum algorithms for simulating many-body physics, chemistry, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Andrew Zhao , Nicholas C. Rubin , Akimasa Miyake

Faster algorithms, novel cryptographic mechanisms, and alternative methods of communication become possible when the model underlying information and computation changes from a classical mechanical model to a quantum mechanical one. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-29 Eleanor G. Rieffel

We introduce the task of shadow process simulation, where the goal is to simulate the estimation of the expectation values of arbitrary quantum observables at the output of a target physical process. When the sender and receiver share…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Xuanqiang Zhao , Xin Wang , Giulio Chiribella

Every quantum physical system can be considered the ''shadow'' of a special kind of classical system. The system proposed here is classical mainly because each observable function has a well precise value on each state of the system: an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio Cassa

Variational quantum algorithms are promising algorithms for achieving quantum advantage on near-term devices. The quantum hardware is used to implement a variational wave function and measure observables, whereas the classical computer is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Stefan H. Sack , Raimel A. Medina , Alexios A. Michailidis , Richard Kueng , Maksym Serbyn

We introduce a technique to estimate error-mitigated expectation values on noisy quantum computers. Our technique performs shadow tomography on a logical state to produce a memory-efficient classical reconstruction of the noisy density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Hong-Ye Hu , Ryan LaRose , Yi-Zhuang You , Eleanor Rieffel , Zhihui Wang

Quantum kernel methods are a promising method in quantum machine learning thanks to the guarantees connected to them. Their accessibility for analytic considerations also opens up the possibility of prescreening datasets based on their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Sebastian Egginger , Alona Sakhnenko , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Error correction will add so much overhead to large quantum computations that we suspect the most efficient algorithms will use a classical co-processor to do as much work as possible. We present a method to offload portions of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Samuel Jaques , Craig Gidney

Gaussian building blocks are essential for photonic quantum information processing, and universality can be practically achieved by equipping Gaussian circuits with adaptive measurement and feedforward. The number of adaptive steps then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Changhun Oh , Youngrong Lim

Detecting multipartite entanglement in many qubit systems is measurement-intensive, motivating protocols that estimate only selected observables with provable efficiency. In this work we use the classical shadow protocol to study the sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ziran Zhang

Quantum computers and simulators promise to enable the study of strongly correlated quantum systems. Yet, surprisingly, it is hard for them to compute ground states. They can, however, efficiently compute the dynamics of closed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Gaurav Gyawali , Mabrur Ahmed , Eric Aspling , Luke Ellert-Beck , Michael J. Lawler

We investigate the advantages of using autoregressive neural quantum states as ansatze for classical shadow tomography to improve its predictive power. We introduce a novel estimator for optimizing the cross-entropy loss function using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Wirawat Kokaew , Bohdan Kulchytskyy , Shunji Matsuura , Pooya Ronagh

Quantum measurements affect the state of the observed systems via back-action. While projective measurements extract maximal classical information, they drastically alter the system's configuration. In contrast, indirect measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Giacomo Franceschetto , Marcin Płodzień , Maciej Lewenstein , Antonio Acín , Pere Mujal

Quantum processing unit (QPU) has to satisfy highly demanding quantity and quality requirements on its qubits to produce accurate results for problems at useful scales. Furthermore, classical simulations of quantum circuits generally do not…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wei Tang , Margaret Martonosi

Monitored quantum dynamics -- unitary evolution interspersed with measurements -- has recently emerged as a rich domain for phase structure in quantum many-body systems away from equilibrium. Here we study monitored dynamics from the point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Matteo Ippoliti , Vedika Khemani

Quantum subspace expansion (QSE) offers promising avenues to perform spectral calculations on quantum processors but comes with a large measurement overhead. Informationally complete (IC) measurements, such as classical shadows, were…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Laurin E. Fischer , Daniel Bultrini , Ivano Tavernelli , Francesco Tacchino

In light of recently proposed quantum algorithms that incorporate symmetries in the hope of quantum advantage, we show that with symmetries that are restrictive enough, classical algorithms can efficiently emulate their quantum counterparts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Eric R. Anschuetz , Andreas Bauer , Bobak T. Kiani , Seth Lloyd

We propose a system of equations to describe the interaction of a quasiclassical variable $X$ with a set of quantum variables $x$ that goes beyond the usual mean field approximation. The idea is to regard the quantum system as continuously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Diosi , J. J. Halliwell

Quantum machine learning is often highlighted as one of the most promising practical applications for which quantum computers could provide a computational advantage. However, a major obstacle to the widespread use of quantum machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Sofiene Jerbi , Casper Gyurik , Simon C. Marshall , Riccardo Molteni , Vedran Dunjko

While rigorous quantum dynamical simulations of many-body systems are extremely difficult (or impossible) due to the exponential scaling with dimensionality, corresponding classical simulations completely ignore quantum effects.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Cesare Mollica , Jiri Vanicek