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Uhlmann's theorem is a central result in quantum information theory, which associates the closeness of two quantum states with that of their purifications. The theorem also well characterizes a fundamental task: how close a pure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Takeru Utsumi , Yoshifumi Nakata , Qisheng Wang , Ryuji Takagi

We present a method for optimizing quantum circuits architecture. The method is based on the notion of "quantum comb", which describes a circuit board in which one can insert variable subcircuits. The method allows one to efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-08 Giulio Chiribella , Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Paolo Perinotti

Solving linear ordinary differential equations (ODE) is one of the most promising applications for quantum computers to demonstrate exponential advantages. The challenge of designing a quantum ODE algorithm is how to embed non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Zhong-Xia Shang , Naixu Guo , Dong An , Qi Zhao

Quantum algebras (also called quantum groups) are deformed versions of the usual Lie algebras, to which they reduce when the deformation parameter q is set equal to unity. From the mathematical point of view they are Hopf algebras. Their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bonatsos , N. Karoussos , P. P. Raychev , R. P. Roussev

The quantum hybrid algorithm has become a very promising and speedily method today for solving the larger-scale optimization in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. The unit commitment (UC) problem is a fundamental problem in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jian Liu , Xu Zhou , Zhuojun Zhou , Le Luo

Unitary $k$-designs are distributions of unitary gates that match the Haar distribution up to its $k$-th statistical moment. They are a crucial resource for randomized quantum protocols. However, their implementation on encoded logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Zihan Cheng , Eric Huang , Vedika Khemani , Michael J. Gullans , Matteo Ippoliti

We calculate (q-deformed) Clebsch-Gordan and 6j-coefficients for rank two quantum groups. We explain in detail how such calculations are done, which should allow the reader to perform similar calculations in other cases. Moreover, we…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Eddy Ardonne , J. K. Slingerland

It is known that every (single-qudit) Clifford operator maps the full set of generalized Pauli matrices (GPMs) to itself under unitary conjugation, which is an important quantum operation and plays a crucial role in quantum computation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Cai-Hong Wang , Jiang-Tao Yuan , Zhi-Hao Ma , Shao-Ming Fei , Shang-Quan Bu

Nonlinear spectroscopy is a cornerstone of quantum science, providing unique access to multi-point correlations, quantum coherence, and couplings that are invisible to linear methods. However, classical simulation of these phenomena is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Long Xiong , Xiaoyang Wang , Xiaoxia Cai , Xiao Yuan

This paper explores the representation of quantum computing in terms of unitary reflections (unitary transformations that leave invariant a hyperplane of a vector space). The symmetries of qubit systems are found to be supported by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Michel Planat , Maurice R. Kibler

Optimal quantum machines can be implemented by linear projective operations. In the present work a general qubit symmetrization theory is presented by investigating the close links to the qubit purification process and to the programmable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Sciarrino , C. Sias , M. Ricci , F. De Martini

Classical reversible circuits, acting on $w$~bits, are represented by permutation matrices of size $2^w \times 2^w$. Those matrices form the group P($2^w$), isomorphic to the symmetric group {\bf S}$_{2^w}$. The permutation group P($n$),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 Alexis De Vos , Stijn De Baerdemacker

Quantum unitaries of the form $\Sigma_{c}\ket{c}\bra{c}\otimes U_{c}$ are ubiquitous in quantum algorithms. This class encompasses not only standard uniformly controlled gates (UCGs) but also a wide range of circuits with uniformly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Chengzhuo Xu , Xiao Chen , Xi Li , Zhihao Liu , Zhigang Li

We consider different Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU) decompositions for molecular electronic structure Hamiltonians. Using these LCU decompositions for Hamiltonian simulation on a quantum computer, the main figure of merit is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Ignacio Loaiza , Alireza Marefat Khah , Nathan Wiebe , Artur F. Izmaylov

Hamiltonian simulation represents an important module in a large class of quantum algorithms and simulations such as quantum machine learning, quantum linear algebra methods, and modeling for physics, material science and chemistry. One of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Albert T. Schmitz , Nicolas P. D. Sawaya , Sonika Johri , A. Y. Matsuura

A general scheme is presented to decompose a $d$-by-$d$ unitary matrix as the product of two-level unitary matrices with additional structure and prescribed determinants. In particular, the decomposition can be done by using two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-11 Chi-Kwong Li , Rebecca Roberts , Xiaoyan Yin

In this paper we present the following quantum compression protocol: P : Let $\rho,\sigma$ be quantum states such that $S(\rho || \sigma) = \text{Tr} (\rho \log \rho - \rho \log \sigma)$, the relative entropy between $\rho$ and $\sigma$, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Anurag Anshu , Rahul Jain , Priyanka Mukhopadhyay , Ala Shayeghi , Penghui Yao

Optimal dense coding using a partially-entangled pure state of Schmidt rank $\bar D$ and a noiseless quantum channel of dimension $D$ is studied both in the deterministic case where at most $L_d$ messages can be transmitted with perfect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shengjun Wu , Scott M. Cohen , Yuqing Sun , Robert B. Griffiths

Even though mutually unbiased bases and entropic uncertainty relations play an important role in quantum cryptographic protocols they remain ill understood. Here, we construct special sets of up to 2n+1 mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-04 Prabha Mandayam , Niranjan Balachandran , Stephanie Wehner

We show that deterministic quantum computing with one qubit (DQC1) can be experimentally implemented with a spatial light modulator, using the polarization and the transverse spatial degrees of freedom of light. The scheme allows the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 M. Hor-Meyll , D. S. Tasca , S. P. Walborn , M. M. Santos , E. I. Duzzioni , P. H. Souto Ribeiro