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Quantum channel discrimination is a fundamental problem in quantum information science. In this study, we consider general quantum channel discrimination problems, and derive the lower bounds of the error probability. Our lower bounds are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Ryo Ito , Ryuhei Mori

Quantum state tomography is essential for characterizing quantum systems, but it becomes infeasible for large systems due to exponential resource scaling. Overlapping tomography addresses this challenge by reconstructing all $k$-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Shuowei Ma , Qianfan Wang , Lvzhou Li , Fei Shi

Quantum learning encounters fundamental challenges when estimating non-linear properties, owing to the inherent linearity of quantum mechanics. Although recent advances in single-copy randomized measurement protocols have achieved optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Zhenyu Du , Yifan Tang , Andreas Elben , Ingo Roth , Jens Eisert , Zhenhuan Liu

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

We study the problem of clustering $T$ trajectories of length $H$, each generated by one of K unknown ergodic Markov chains over a finite state space of size $S$. We derive an instance-dependent, high-probability lower bound on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Junghyun Lee , Yassir Jedra , Alexandre Proutière , Se-Young Yun

The quantum central limit theorem for bosonic quantum systems states that the sequence of states $\rho^{\boxplus n}$ obtained from the $n$-fold convolution of a centered quantum state $\rho$ converges to a quantum Gaussian state $\rho_G$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Salman Beigi , Hami Mehrabi

We consider the problem of unambiguous (error-free) discrimination of N linearly independent pure quantum states with prior probabilities, where the goal is to find a measurement that maximizes the average probability of success. We derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

The purpose of this paper is to introduce techniques of obtaining optimal ways to determine a d-level quantum state or distinguish such states. It entails designing constrained elementary measurements extracted from maximal abelian subsets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 S. Chaturvedi , Sibasish Ghosh , K. R. Parthasarathy , Ajit Iqbal Singh

Joint measurements on multiple copies of a quantum state provide access to nonlinear observables such as $\operatorname{tr}(\rho^t)$, but whether replica number marks a sharp information-theoretic resource boundary has remained unclear. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Shuai Zeng

It has been recently shown that a state generated by a one-dimensional noisy quantum computer is well approximated by a matrix product operator with a finite bond dimension independent of the number of qubits. We show that full quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Alexander Lidiak , Casey Jameson , Zhen Qin , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin , Zhihui Zhu , Zhexuan Gong

Existing quantum state tomography methods are limited in scalability due to their high computation and memory demands, making them impractical for recovery of large quantum states. In this work, we address these limitations by reformulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Kuchibhotla Aditi , Stephen Becker

Reconstructing the state of a complex quantum system represents a pivotal task for all quantum information applications, both for characterization purposes and for verification of quantum protocols. Recent technological developments have…

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we provide an optimal $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$ bits lower bound for any two-way protocol for the Vector in Subspace Communication Problem which is of bounded total rank. This result complements Raz's…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Uri Grupel

We provide an algorithm for properly learning mixtures of two single-dimensional Gaussians without any separability assumptions. Given $\tilde{O}(1/\varepsilon^2)$ samples from an unknown mixture, our algorithm outputs a mixture that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Constantinos Daskalakis , Gautam Kamath

The optimal quantum measurements for estimating different unknown parameters in a parameterized quantum state are usually incompatible with each other. Traditional approaches to addressing the measurement incompatibility issue, such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Sisi Zhou , Senrui Chen

A number of problems in quantum state and system identification are addressed. Specifically, it is shown that the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) approach, already known to apply to quantum state tomography, is also applicable to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Kosut , Ian A. Walmsley , Herschel Rabitz

Quantum state tomography is a crucial technique for characterizing the state of a quantum system, which is essential for many applications in quantum technologies. In recent years, there has been growing interest in leveraging neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Nhan Trong Luu , Tuyen Quang Nguyen , Duong Trung Luu , Thang Cong Truong

Finding the closest separable state to a given target state is a notoriously difficult task, even more difficult than deciding whether a state is entangled or separable. To tackle this task, we parametrize separable states with a neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Antoine Girardin , Nicolas Brunner , Tamás Kriváchy

Quantum state tomography is a powerful, but resource-intensive, general solution for numerous quantum information processing tasks. This motivates the design of robust tomography procedures that use relevant resources as sparingly as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-17 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Richard Kueng , Daniel Stilck França

We present a theoretical study of minimum error probability discrimination, using quantum- optical probe states, of M optical phase shifts situated symmetrically on the unit circle. We assume ideal lossless conditions and full freedom for…

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