English
Related papers

Related papers: Efficient learning of bosonic Gaussian unitaries

200 papers

We study the problem of list-decodable Gaussian mean estimation and the related problem of learning mixtures of separated spherical Gaussians. We develop a set of techniques that yield new efficient algorithms with significantly improved…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Alistair Stewart

We consider process tomography for unitary quantum channels. Given access to an unknown unitary channel acting on a $\textsf{d}$-dimensional qudit, we aim to output a classical description of a unitary that is $\varepsilon$-close to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Jeongwan Haah , Robin Kothari , Ryan O'Donnell , Ewin Tang

Quantum neural networks promise to extend the power of machine learning into the quantum domain, with potential applications ranging from automatic recognition of quantum states to the control of quantum devices. However, their physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Julien Dudas , Baptiste Carles , Elie Gouzien , Julie Grollier , Danijela Marković

Recent advancements in quantum technologies have opened new horizons for exploring the physical world in ways once deemed impossible. Central to these breakthroughs is the concept of quantum advantage, where quantum systems outperform their…

With the fast development of quantum technology, the sizes of both digital and analog quantum systems increase drastically. In order to have better control and understanding of the quantum hardware, an important task is to characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Wenjun Yu , Jinzhao Sun , Zeyao Han , Xiao Yuan

We tackle the problem of system identification, where we select inputs, observe the corresponding outputs from the true system, and optimize the parameters of our model to best fit the data. We propose a practical and computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Alexandros E. Tzikas , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Identifying an accurate model for the dynamics of a quantum system is a vexing problem that underlies a range of problems in experimental physics and quantum information theory. Recently, a method called quantum Hamiltonian learning has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Nathan Wiebe , Christopher Granade , Christopher Ferrie , David G. Cory

In this paper we present a method for learning the parameters of a mixture of $k$ identical spherical Gaussians in $n$-dimensional space with an arbitrarily small separation between the components. Our algorithm is polynomial in all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-05-14 Mikhail Belkin , Kaushik Sinha

We address parameter estimation for complex/structured systems and suggest an effective estimation scheme based on continuous-variables quantum probes. In particular, we investigate the use of a single bosonic mode as a probe for Ohmic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Matteo Bina , Federico Grasselli , Matteo G. A. Paris

Discrete and continuous variables oftentimes require different treatments in many learning tasks. Identifying the Hamiltonian governing the evolution of a quantum system is a fundamental task in quantum learning theory. While previous works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Tim Möbus , Andreas Bluhm , Tuvia Gefen , Yu Tong , Albert H. Werner , Cambyse Rouzé

In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers, variational quantum algorithms are promising approaches for solving optimization tasks by training parameterized quantum circuits with the aid of classical routines informed by…

Characterizing noisy quantum devices requires methods for learning the underlying quantum Hamiltonian which governs their dynamics. Often, such methods compare measurements to simulations of candidate Hamiltonians, a task which requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Assaf Zubida , Elad Yitzhaki , Netanel H. Lindner , Eyal Bairey

We introduce a framework for the calculation of ground and excited state energies of bosonic systems suitable for near-term quantum devices and apply it to molecular vibrational anharmonic Hamiltonians. Our method supports generic reference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Pauline J. Ollitrault , Alberto Baiardi , Markus Reiher , Ivano Tavernelli

The one-body reduced density matrix $\gamma$ plays a fundamental role in describing and predicting quantum features of bosonic systems, such as Bose-Einstein condensation. The recently proposed reduced density matrix functional theory for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Jonathan Schmidt , Matteo Fadel , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros

Structured light, light tailored in its internal degrees of freedom, has become topical in numerous quantum and classical information processing protocols. In this work, we harness the high dimensional nature of structured light modulated…

A significant hurdle for quantum information and processing using bosonic systems is stochastic phase errors which occur as the photons propagate through a channel. These errors will reduce the purity of states passing through the channel…

Two recent landmark experiments have performed Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) with a non-programmable linear interferometer and threshold detectors on up to 144 output modes (see Refs.~\onlinecite{zhong_quantum_2020,zhong2021phase}). Here we…

The required set of operations for universal continuous-variable quantum computation can be divided into two primary categories: Gaussian and non-Gaussian operations. Furthermore, any Gaussian operation can be decomposed as a sequence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Kunal Sharma , Mark M. Wilde

Boson-Sampling is a classically computationally hard problem that can - in principle - be efficiently solved with quantum linear optical networks. Very recently, a rush of experimental activity has ignited with the aim of developing such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 C. Gogolin , M. Kliesch , L. Aolita , J. Eisert

We propose an algorithm to actively estimate the parameters of a linear dynamical system. Given complete control over the system's input, our algorithm adaptively chooses the inputs to accelerate estimation. We show a finite time bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Andrew Wagenmaker , Kevin Jamieson