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Quantum process tomography, the standard procedure to characterize any quantum channel in nature, is affected by a circular argument: in order to characterize the channel, the tomographic preparation and measurement need in turn to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Michele Dall'Arno , Sarah Brandsen , Francesco Buscemi

Quantum process tomography is often used to completely characterize an unknown quantum process. However, it may lead to an unphysical process matrix, which will cause the loss of information respect to the tomography result. Convex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Xuan-Lun Huang , Jun Gao , Zhi-Qiang Jiao , Zeng-Quan Yan , Ling Ji , Xian-Min Jin

Channel conversion constitutes a pivotal paradigm in information theory and its applications to quantum physics, providing a unified problem setting that encompasses celebrated results such as Shannon's noisy-channel coding theorem. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Masahito Hayashi , Hayata Yamasaki

Quantum technologies are increasingly pervasive, underpinning the operation of numerous electronic, optical and medical devices. Today, we are also witnessing rapid advancements in quantum computing and communication. However, access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Milan Maksimovic , Ivan S. Maksymov

Coherence is a basic notion for quantum states. Instead of quantum states, in this work, We establish a resource theory for quantifying the coherence of Gaussian channels. To do this, we propose the definitions of incoherent Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Jianwei Xu

We develop a framework for Matrix Product Quantum Channels (MPQCs), a one-dimensional tensor-network description of completely positive, trace-preserving maps. We focus on translation-invariant channels, generated by a single repeated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Giorgio Stucchi , J. Ignacio Cirac , Rahul Trivedi , Georgios Styliaris

A multichannel S-matrix framework for singular quantum mechanics (SQM) subsumes the renormalization and self-adjoint extension methods and resolves its boundary-condition ambiguities. In addition to the standard channel accessible to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-26 Horacio E. Camblong , Luis N. Epele , Huner Fanchiotti , Carlos A. Garcia Canal , Carlos R. Ordonez

No quantum circuit can turn a completely unknown unitary gate into its coherently controlled version. Yet, coherent control of unknown gates has been realised in experiments, making use of a different type of initial resources. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Augustin Vanrietvelde , Giulio Chiribella

This paper is an introduction to diagrammatic methods for representing quantum processes and quantum computing. We review basic notions for quantum information and quantum computing. We discuss topological diagrams and some issues about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Louis H. Kauffman , Samuel J. Lomonaco

The quantum switch, a process enabling a coherent superposition of different orders of quantum channels, has garnered significant attention due to its ability to enable noiseless communications through noisy channels, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Claudio Pellitteri , Marcello Caleffi , Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

As a cornerstone of automated reasoning, equational reasoning finds equivalences between symbolic expressions and fuels advances across scientific disciplines. Yet, its potential remains limited by the exponential growth of equivalent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Davide Rattacaso , Daniel Jaschke , Marco Ballarin , Ilaria Siloi , Simone Montangero

We present a coherent approach to recurrence and transience, starting from a version of the Riesz decomposition theorem for superharmonic elements. Our approach allows straightforward proofs of some known results, entails new theorems, and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2012-11-30 Andreas Gärtner , Burkhard Kümmerer

Quantum computing enables quantum neural networks (QNNs) to have great potentials to surpass artificial neural networks (ANNs). The powerful generalization of neural networks is attributed to nonlinear activation functions. Although various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Shilu Yan , Hongsheng Qi , Wei Cui

Scalable characterization of quantum processors is crucial for mitigating noise and imperfections. While randomized measurement protocols enable efficient access to local observables, inferring a globally consistent description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Zidu Liu , Dominik S. Wild

A formal theory of simplicity is introduced, in the context of a "combinational" computation model that views computation as comprising the iterated transformational and compositional activity of a population of agents upon each other.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Ben Goertzel

This is an exposition of some of the aspects of quantum computation and quantum information that have connections with operator theory. After a brief introduction, we discuss quantum algorithms. We outline basic properties of quantum…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David W. Kribs

Quantum channels are quintessential to quantum information, being used in all protocols, and describing how systems evolve in space and time. As such, they play a key role in the manipulation of quantum resources, and they are often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Gilad Gour , Carlo Maria Scandolo

A stochastic process's statistical complexity stands out as a fundamental property: the minimum information required to synchronize one process generator to another. How much information is required, though, when synchronizing over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 J. R. Mahoney , C. Aghamohammadi , J. P. Crutchfield

Recurrent neural networks play an important role in both research and industry. With the advent of quantum machine learning, the quantisation of recurrent neural networks has become recently relevant. We propose fully quantum recurrent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-20 Dmytro Bondarenko , Robert Salzmann , Viktoria-S. Schmiesing

This paper develops the resource theory of asymmetric distinguishability for quantum channels, generalizing the related resource theory for states [arXiv:1010.1030; arXiv:1905.11629]. The key constituents of the channel resource theory are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Xin Wang , Mark M. Wilde