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Properties of quantum systems can be estimated using classical shadows, which implement measurements based on random ensembles of unitaries. Originally derived for global Clifford unitaries and products of single-qubit Clifford gates,…

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We introduce "holographic shadows", a new class of randomized measurement schemes for classical shadow tomography that achieves the optimal scaling of sample complexity for learning geometrically local Pauli operators at any length scale,…

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The classical shadow estimation protocol is a noise-resilient and sample-efficient quantum algorithm for learning the properties of quantum systems. Its performance depends on the choice of a unitary ensemble, which must be chosen by a user…

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For single-carrier systems with frequency domain equalization, decision feedback equalization (DFE) performs better than linear equalization and has much lower computational complexity than sequence maximum likelihood detection. The main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Jovana Ilic , Thomas Strohmer

We introduce a direct estimation framework for reconstructing multiple density matrix elements of an unknown quantum state using classical shadow tomography. Traditional direct measurement protocols (DMPs), while effective for individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yu Wang

As quantum devices scale, quantifying how close an experimental state aligns with a target becomes both vital and challenging. Fidelity is the standard metric, but existing estimators either require full tomography or apply only to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Mingyu Sun , Gabriel Waite , Michael Bremner , Christopher Ferrie

Efficient fidelity estimation of multiqubit quantum states is crucial to many applications in quantum information processing. However, to estimate the infidelity $\epsilon$ with multiplicative precision, conventional estimation protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Zhongyi Yang , Datong Chen , Zihao Li , Huangjun Zhu

The accurate state estimation of unknown bodies in space is a critical challenge with applications ranging from the tracking of space debris to the shape estimation of small bodies. A necessary enabler to this capability is to find and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Arion Zimmermann , Soon-Jo Chung , Fred Hadaegh

Characterization of quantum states is a fundamental requirement in quantum science and technology. As a promising framework, shadow tomography shows significant efficiency in estimating linear functions, however, for the challenging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Xu-Jie Peng , Qing Liu , Lu Liu , Ting Zhang , You Zhou , He Lu

Measuring global quantum properties-such as the fidelity to complex multipartite states-is both an essential and experimentally challenging task. Classical shadow estimation offers favorable sample complexity, but typically relies on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Qingyue Zhang , Dayue Qin , Zhou You , Feng Xu , Jens Eisert , You Zhou

Interfacing quantum and classical processors is an important subroutine in full-stack quantum algorithms. The so-called "classical shadow" method efficiently extracts essential classical information from quantum states, enabling the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Shuowei Ma , Junyu Liu

In differential privacy (DP), we want to query a database about n users, in a way that "leaks at most eps about any individual user," even conditioned on any outcome of the query. Meanwhile, in gentle measurement, we want to measure n…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Scott Aaronson , Guy N. Rothblum

A crucial subroutine for various quantum computing and communication algorithms is to efficiently extract different classical properties of quantum states. In a notable recent theoretical work by Huang, Kueng, and Preskill [Nat. Phys. 16,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Ting Zhang , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao-Xu Fang , Xiao-Ming Zhang , Xiao Yuan , He Lu

Given copies of a quantum state $\rho$, a shadow tomography protocol aims to learn all expectation values from a fixed set of observables, to within a given precision $\epsilon$. We say that a shadow tomography protocol is triply efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Robbie King , David Gosset , Robin Kothari , Ryan Babbush

We presented an efficient algorithm, fast adaptive flat-histogram ensemble (FAFE), to estimate the density of states (DOS) and to enhance sampling in large systems. FAFE calculates the means of an arbitrary extensive variable $U$ in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-13 Xin Zhou , Yi Jiang

Secure function evaluation (SFE) is the process of computing a function (or running an algorithm) on some data, while keeping the input, output and intermediate results hidden from the environment in which the function is evaluated. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Stefan Rass

Shadow estimation is a powerful approach for estimating the expectation values of many observables. Thrifty shadow estimation is a simple variant that is proposed to reduce the experimental overhead by reusing random circuits repeatedly.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Datong Chen , Huangjun Zhu

Remarkable breakthroughs in quantum science and technology are demanding for more efficient methods in analyzing quantum many-body states. A significant challenge in this field is to verify whether a quantum state prepared by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Langxuan Chen , Pengfei Zhang

We introduce a novel framework for uncertainty quantification of solution operators associated with stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). Although SPDEs play a central role in modeling complex physical systems under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Phuoc-Toan Huynh , Richard Archibald , Feng Bao

We give the first tight sample complexity bounds for shadow tomography and classical shadows in the regime where the target error is below some sufficiently small inverse polynomial in the dimension of the Hilbert space. Formally we give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Sitan Chen , Jerry Li , Allen Liu