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We present a low-depth amplitude encoding method for arbitrary quantum state preparation. Building on the foundation of an existing divide-and-conquer algorithm, we propose a method to disentangle the ancillary qubits from the final state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Roselyn Nmaju , Fiona Speirits , Sarah Croke

For a system randomly prepared in a number of quantum states, we present a lower bound for the distinguishability of the quantum states, that is, the success probability of determining the states in the form of entropy. When the states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Seungho Yang , Jinhyoung Lee , Hyunseok Jeong

In this work, we investigate the trade-off between the circuit depth and the number of ancillary qubits for preparing sparse quantum states. We prove that any $n$-qubit $d$-spare quantum state (i.e., it has only $d$ non-zero amplitudes) can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Jingquan Luo , Guanzhong Li , Lvzhou Li

We study the concurrence of arbitrary dimensional multipartite quantum systems. An explicit analytical lower bound of concurrence for four-partite mixed states is obtained in terms of the concurrences of tripartite mixed states. Detailed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Wei Chen , Xue-Na Zhu , Shao-Min Fei , Zhu-Jun Zheng

We address the issue of reducing the resource required to compute information-theoretic quantum correlation measures like quantum discord and quantum work deficit in two qubits and higher dimensional systems. We show that determination of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-18 Titas Chanda , Tamoghna Das , Debasis Sadhukhan , Amit Kumar Pal , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

The preparation of quantum states using short quantum circuits is one of the most promising near-term applications of small quantum computers, especially if the circuit is short enough and the fidelity of gates high enough that it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 D. Wecker , M. B. Hastings , M. Troyer

The preparation of $n$-qubit quantum states is a cross-cutting subroutine for many quantum algorithms, and the effort to reduce its circuit complexity is a significant challenge. In the literature, the quantum state preparation algorithm by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Giacomo Belli , Michele Amoretti

Adaptive quantum circuits, leveraging measurements and classical feedback, significantly expand the landscape of realizable quantum states compared to their non-adaptive counterparts, enabling the preparation of long-range entangled states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Guoding Liu , Junjie Chen , Xiongfeng Ma

Consider a joint quantum state of a system and its environment. A measurement on the environment induces a decomposition of the system state. Using algorithmic information theory, we define the preparation information of a pure or mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Andrei N. Soklakov , Ruediger Schack

To implement quantum information technologies, carefully designed control for preparing a desired state plays a key role. However, in realistic situation, the actual performance of those methodologies is severely limited by decoherence.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Kohei Kobayashi

Preparing the ground state of a local Hamiltonian is a crucial problem in understanding quantum many-body systems, with applications in a variety of physics fields and connections to combinatorial optimization. While various quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

The Quantum State Preparation problem aims to prepare an $n$-qubit quantum state $|\psi_v\rangle =\sum_{k=0}^{2^n-1}v_k|k\rangle$ from the initial state $|0\rangle^{\otimes n}$, for a given unit vector $v=(v_0,v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_{2^n-1})^T\in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Xiaoming Sun , Guojing Tian , Shuai Yang , Pei Yuan , Shengyu Zhang

We derive a general lower bound on the minimum-error probability for {\it ambiguous discrimination} between arbitrary $m$ mixed quantum states with given prior probabilities. When $m=2$, this bound is precisely the well-known Helstrom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daowen Qiu

Quantum circuit complexity is a fundamental concept whose importance permeates quantum information, computation, many-body physics and high-energy physics. While extensively studied in closed systems, its characterization and behaviors in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhenyu Du , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma

We present a classically solvable model that leads to optimized low-depth quantum circuits leveraging separable pair approximations. The obtained circuits are well suited as a baseline circuit for emerging quantum hardware and can, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Jakob S. Kottmann , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We give a lower bound on the probability of error in quantum state discrimination. The bound is a weighted sum of the pairwise fidelities of the states to be distinguished.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Ashley Montanaro

Certain quantum many-body ground states can be prepared by a large-depth quantum circuit consisting of geometrically local gates. In the presence of noise, local expectation values deviate from the correct value at most by an amount…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 Isaac H. Kim

Near-term quantum computers have significant error rates and short coherence times, so compilation of circuits to be as short as possible is essential. Two types of compilation problems are typically considered: circuits to prepare a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Aaron Szasz , Ed Younis , Wibe de Jong

We study the mixed-state entanglement structure of chaotic quantum many-body systems at late times using the recently developed $\textit{equilibrium approximation}$. A rich entanglement phase diagram emerges when we generalize this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Shreya Vardhan , Jonah Kudler-Flam , Hassan Shapourian , Hong Liu

Learning quantum states from measurement data is a central problem in quantum information and computational complexity. In this work, we study the problem of learning to generate mixed states on a finite-dimensional lattice. Motivated by…