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One of the primary objectives in the field of quantum state learning is to develop algorithms that are time-efficient for learning states generated from quantum circuits. Earlier investigations have demonstrated time-efficient algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Nai-Hui Chia , Ching-Yi Lai , Han-Hsuan Lin

Near term quantum computers with a high quantity (around 50) and quality (around 0.995 fidelity for two-qubit gates) of qubits will approximately sample from certain probability distributions beyond the capabilities of known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Sergio Boixo , Sergei V. Isakov , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Hartmut Neven

Quantum Process Tomography (QPT) methods aim at identifying, i.e. estimating, a quantum process. QPT is a major quantum information processing tool, since it especially allows one to experimentally characterize the actual behavior of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Yannick Deville , Alain Deville

We propose Quantum Snapshot with Dynamic Circuit (QSDC), a hardware-agnostic, learning-driven framework for capturing quantum snapshots: non-destructive estimates of quantum states at arbitrary points within a quantum circuit, which can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Debarshi Kundu , Avimita Chatterjee , Archisman Ghosh , Swaroop Ghosh

As quantum systems expand in size and complexity, manual qubit characterization and gate optimization will be a non-scalable and time-consuming venture. Physical qubits have to be carefully calibrated because quantum processors are very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Peng Qian , Shahid Qamar , Xiao Xiao , Yanwu Gu , Xudan Chai , Zhen Zhao , Nicolo Forcellini , Dong E. Liu

We consider the classic question of state tomography: given copies of an unknown quantum state $\rho\in\mathbb{C}^{d\times d}$, output $\widehat{\rho}$ which is close to $\rho$ in some sense, e.g. trace distance or fidelity. When one is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Sitan Chen , Brice Huang , Jerry Li , Allen Liu , Mark Sellke

A fundamental task in quantum information science is to measure nonlinear functionals of quantum states, such as $\mathrm{Tr}(\rho^k O)$. Intuitively, one expects that computing a $k$-th order quantity generally requires $O(k)$ copies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yukun Zhang , Yusen Wu , You Zhou , Xiao Yuan

Using quantum measurements to extract information from states is a matter of routine in quantum science and technologies. A recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040202 (2024)] reported the finding that the symmetric structures of a state can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Zhao-Yi Zhou , Da-Jian Zhang

An important step in building a quantum computer is calibrating experimentally implemented quantum gates to produce operations that are close to ideal unitaries. The calibration step involves estimating the systematic errors in gates and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Shelby Kimmel , Guang Hao Low , Theodore J. Yoder

Quantum image processing is a growing field attracting attention from both the quantum computing and image processing communities. We propose a novel method in combining a graph-theoretic approach for optimal surface segmentation and hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Nam H. Le , Milan Sonka , Fatima Toor

Quantum process tomography (QPT) methods aim at identifying a given quantum process. The present paper focuses on the estimation of a unitary process. This class is of particular interest because quantum mechanics postulates that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 François Verdeil , Yannick Deville

Quantum computing shows promise for addressing computationally intensive problems but is constrained by the exponential resource requirements of general quantum state tomography (QST), which fully characterizes quantum states through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Hao Su , Shiying Xiong , Yue Yang

A central task in quantum information science is state certification: testing whether an unknown state is $\epsilon_1$-close to a fixed target state, or $\epsilon_2$-far. Recent work has shown that surprisingly simple measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Andrea Coladangelo , Jerry Li , Joseph Slote , Ellen Wu

Quantum state tomography (QST) is a fundamental technique for estimating the state of a quantum system from measured data and plays a crucial role in evaluating the performance of quantum devices. However, standard estimation methods become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Shakir Showkat Sofi , Charlotte Vermeylen , Lieven De Lathauwer

Learning properties of quantum states from measurement data is a fundamental challenge in quantum information. The sample complexity of such tasks depends crucially on the measurement primitive. While shadow tomography achieves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jan Nöller , Viet T. Tran , Mariami Gachechiladze , Richard Kueng

Quantum state estimation is important for various quantum information processes, including quantum communications, computation, and metrology, which require the characterization of quantum states for evaluation and optimization. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 C. Vargas , L. Pereira , A. Delgado

The impressive pace of advance of quantum technology calls for robust and scalable techniques for the characterization and validation of quantum hardware. Quantum process tomography, the reconstruction of an unknown quantum channel from…

A longstanding problem in quantum metrology is how to extract as much information as possible in realistic scenarios with not only multiple unknown parameters, but also limited measurement data and some degree of prior information. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Jesús Rubio , Jacob Dunningham

Quantum detector tomography is a fundamental technique for calibrating quantum devices and performing quantum engineering tasks. In this paper, we design optimal probe states for detector estimation based on the minimum upper bound of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Shuixin Xiao , Yuanlong Wang , Daoyi Dong , Jun Zhang

Characterizing quantum processes is essential for unlocking the potential of quantum devices. However, standard quantum process tomography is resource-intensive and becomes infeasible on large-scale systems. Despite alternative approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Hao Zhan , Zongbo Bao , Zekun Ye , Qianyi Wang , Minghao Mi , Penghui Yao , Lijian Zhang