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We study the sample complexity of shadow tomography in the high-precision regime under realistic measurement constraints. Given an unknown $d$-dimensional quantum state $\rho$ and a known set of observables $\{O_i\}_{i=1}^m$, the goal is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Senrui Chen , Weiyuan Gong , Sisi Zhou

Learning dynamics from repeated observation of the time evolution of an open quantum system, namely, the problem of quantum process tomography is an important task. This task is difficult in general, but, with some additional constraints…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Atithi Acharya , Siddhartha Saha , Shagesh Sridharan , Yanis Bahroun , Anirvan M. Sengupta

We present a classical algorithm for approximating the expectation values of observables in linear-optical circuits with arbitrary product input states, achieving additive-error accuracy. This result indicates that current applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Youngrong Lim , Changhun Oh

The accurate estimation of quantum observables is a critical task in science. With progress on the hardware, measuring a quantum system will become increasingly demanding, particularly for variational protocols that require extensive…

Understanding the dynamics of large quantum systems is hindered by the curse of dimensionality. Statistical learning offers new possibilities in this regime by neural-network protocols and classical shadows, while both methods have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Yuxuan Du , Yibo Yang , Tongliang Liu , Zhouchen Lin , Bernard Ghanem , Dacheng Tao

Recent technological developments have focused the interest of the quantum computing community on investigating how near-term devices could outperform classical computers for practical applications. A central question that remains open is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Daniel Stilck Franca , Raul Garcia-Patron

The rapid development of quantum technology demands efficient characterization of complex quantum many-body states. However, full quantum state tomography requires an exponential number of measurements in system size, preventing its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Yadong Wu , Ce Wang , Juan Yao , Hui Zhai , Yi-Zhuang You , Pengfei Zhang

"Classical shadows" are estimators of an unknown quantum state, constructed from suitably distributed random measurements on copies of that state [Nature Physics 16, 1050-1057]. Here, we analyze classical shadows obtained using random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Kianna Wan , William J. Huggins , Joonho Lee , Ryan Babbush

Classical ghost imaging is a new paradigm in imaging where the image of an object is not measured directly with a pixelated detector. Rather, the object is subject to a set of illumination patterns and the total interaction of the object,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Andrew M. Kingston , Lindon Roberts , Alaleh Aminzadeh , Daniele Pelliccia , Imants D. Svalbe , David M. Paganin

Quantum computational approaches to some classic target identification and localization algorithms, especially for radar images, are investigated, and are found to raise a number of quantum statistics and quantum measurement issues with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Peter B. Weichman

Quantum probes that enable enhanced exploration and characterization of complex systems are central to modern science, spanning applications from biology to astrophysics and chemical design. In large many-body quantum systems, interactions…

Obtaining the expectation value of an observable on a quantum computer is a crucial step in the variational quantum algorithms. For complicated observables such as molecular electronic Hamiltonians, a common strategy is to present the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Tzu-Ching Yen , Aadithya Ganeshram , Artur F. Izmaylov

Unitary errors, such as those arising from fault-tolerant compilation of quantum algorithms, systematically bias observable estimates. Correcting this bias typically requires additional resources, such as an increased number of non-Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Dmitrii Khitrin , Kenneth R. Brown , Abhinav Anand

Owing to the computational complexity of electronic structure algorithms running on classical digital computers, the range of molecular systems amenable to simulation remains tightly circumscribed even after many decades of work. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexis Ralli , Michael I. Williams , Peter V. Coveney

We implement a general imaging method by measuring the complex degree of coherence using linear optics and photon number resolving detectors. In the absence of collective or entanglement assisted measurements, our method is optimal over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 L. A. Howard , G. G. Gillett , M. E. Pearce , R. A. Abrahao , T. J. Weinhold , P. Kok , A. G. White

We study the problem of learning the parameters for the Hamiltonian of a quantum many-body system, given limited access to the system. In this work, we build upon recent approaches to Hamiltonian learning via derivative estimation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Andi Gu , Lukasz Cincio , Patrick J. Coles

The estimation of multi-qubit observables is a key task in quantum information science. The standard approach is to decompose a multi-qubit observable into a weighted sum of Pauli strings. The observable can then be estimated from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 L. A. Markovich , J. Borregaard

Object detection and range finding using a weak light source is vulnerable to jamming and spoofing attacks by an intruder. Quantum illumination with nonsimultaneous, phase-insensitive coincidence measurements can provide jamming resilience…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Richard J. Murchie , John Jeffers

We propose a tomographic protocol for estimating any $ k $-body reduced density matrix ($ k $-RDM) of an $ n $-mode fermionic state, a ubiquitous step in near-term quantum algorithms for simulating many-body physics, chemistry, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Andrew Zhao , Nicholas C. Rubin , Akimasa Miyake

Quantum sensor networks promise precision advantages over classical and single-sensor strategies, in particular when the estimator is non-local. We address the problem of finding such estimators through a framework we connote spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Luís Bugalho , Yasser Omar , Damian Markham