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In this paper, we study unconstrained distributed optimization strongly convex problems, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology over digital channels that have limited capacity (and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

The optimal rate of reliable communication over a quantum channel can be enhanced by pre-shared entanglement. Whereas the enhancement may be unbounded in infinite-dimensional settings even when the input power is constrained, a…

Using a technique based on quantum teleportation, we simplify the most general adaptive protocols for key distribution, entanglement distillation and quantum communication over a wide class of quantum channels in arbitrary dimension. Thanks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Stefano Pirandola , Riccardo Laurenza

This paper considers the problem of decentralized optimization on compact submanifolds, where a finite sum of smooth (possibly non-convex) local functions is minimized by $n$ agents forming an undirected and connected graph. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jun Chen , Lina Liu , Tianyi Zhu , Yong Liu , Guang Dai , Yunliang Jiang , Ivor W. Tsang

A quantum state's entanglement across a bipartite cut can be quantified with entanglement entropy or, more generally, Schmidt norms. Using only Schmidt decompositions, we present a simple iterative algorithm to maximize Schmidt norms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 Robin Reuvers

Reliable preparation of entanglement between distant systems is an outstanding problem in quantum information science and quantum communication. In practice, this has to be accomplished via noisy channels (such as optical fibers) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-01 Liang Jiang , Jacob M. Taylor , Navin Khaneja , Mikhail D. Lukin

Exploiting permutation invariance to reduce the exponential scaling of semidefinite programs in quantum information has emerged as a powerful computational technique. In this work, we develop a systematic framework for using this reduction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Bjarne Bergh , Marco Parentin

This paper formulates the problem of Extremum Seeking for optimization of cost functions defined on Riemannian manifolds. We extend the conventional extremum seeking algorithms for optimization problems in Euclidean spaces to optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Farzin Taringoo , Peter M. Dower , Dragan Nesic , Ying Tan

Grover's algorithm is a fundamental quantum algorithm that offers a quadratic speedup for the unstructured search problem by alternately applying physically implementable oracle and diffusion operators. In this paper, we reformulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Zhijian Lai , Dong An , Jiang Hu , Zaiwen Wen

Sending quantum information reliably over long distances is a central challenge in quantum technology in general, and in quantum optics in particular, since most quantum communication relies on optical fibres or free-space links. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Tobias Rippchen , Ludovico Lami , Gerardo Adesso , Mario Berta

We consider the problem of solving a distributed optimization problem using a distributed computing platform, where the communication in the network is limited: each node can only communicate with its neighbours and the channel has a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Ye Pu , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Colin N. Jones

Strictly enforcing orthonormality constraints on parameter matrices has been shown advantageous in deep learning. This amounts to Riemannian optimization on the Stiefel manifold, which, however, is computationally expensive. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Jun Li , Li Fuxin , Sinisa Todorovic

Quantum capacity quantifies the amount of quantum information that can be transmitted by a quantum channel with an arbitrary small probability of error. Mathematically, the quantum capacity is given by an asymptotic formula involving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Zhen Wu , Zhihao Ma , James Fullwood

Several tensor networks are built of isometric tensors, i.e. tensors satisfying $W^\dagger W = \mathrm{I}$. Prominent examples include matrix product states (MPS) in canonical form, the multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Markus Hauru , Maarten Van Damme , Jutho Haegeman

Most general dynamics of an open quantum system is commonly represented by a quantum channel, which is a completely positive trace-preserving map (CPTP or Kraus map). Well-known are the representations of quantum channels by Choi matrices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Ivan Russkikh , Boris Volkov , Alexander Pechen

Distributed optimization increasingly plays a central role in economical and sustainable operation of cyber-physical systems. Nevertheless, the complete potential of the technology has not yet been fully exploited in practice due to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Sindri Magnusson , Chinwendu Enyioha , Na Li , Carlo Fischione , Vahid Tarokh

We consider optimization problems on manifolds with equality and inequality constraints. A large body of work treats constrained optimization in Euclidean spaces. In this work, we consider extensions of existing algorithms from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Changshuo Liu , Nicolas Boumal

Quantum channels underlie the dynamics of quantum systems, but in many practical settings it is the channels themselves that require processing. We establish universal limitations on the processing of both quantum states and channels,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Bartosz Regula , Ryuji Takagi

We consider the optimization problem with a generally quadratic matrix constraint of the form $X^TAX = J$, where $A$ is a given nonsingular, symmetric $n\times n$ matrix and $J$ is a given $k\times k$ symmetric matrix, with $k\leq n$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Dinh Van Tiep , Nguyen Thanh Son

For addressing optimisation tasks on finite dimensional quantum systems, we give a comprehensive account of the foundations of gradient flows on Riemannian manifolds including new developments: we extend former results from Lie groups such…

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