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Convex optimization problems arise naturally in quantum information theory, often in terms of minimizing a convex function over a convex subset of the space of hermitian matrices. In most cases, finding exact solutions to these problems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Mark W. Girard , Gilad Gour , Shmuel Friedland

We give an exact solution to the nonlinear optimization problem of approximating a Hermitian matrix by positive semi-definite matrices. Our algorithm was then used to judge whether a quantum state is entangled or not. We show that the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 Xiaofen Huang , Naihuan Jing

The relative entropy is a principal measure of distinguishability in quantum information theory, with its most important property being that it is non-increasing with respect to noisy quantum operations. Here, we establish a remainder term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Mario Berta , Marius Lemm , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum relative entropy optimization refers to a class of convex problems in which a linear functional is minimized over an affine section of the epigraph of the quantum relative entropy function. Recently, the self-concordance of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kerry He , James Saunderson , Hamza Fawzi

Inferring a quantum system from incomplete information is a common problem in many aspects of quantum information science and applications, where the principle of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) plays an important role. The quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Shi-Yao Hou , Zipeng Wu , Jinfeng Zeng , Ningping Cao , Chenfeng Cao , Youning Li , Bei Zeng

In this work, we propose a machine learning-based approach to address a specific aspect of the Quantum Marginal Problem: reconstructing a global density matrix compatible with a given set of quantum marginals. Our method integrates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel Uzcategui-Contreras , Antonio Guerra , Sebastian Niklitschek , Aldo Delgado

Quantum relative entropy, a quantum generalization of the renowned Kullback-Leibler divergence, serves as a fundamental measure of the distinguishability between quantum states and plays a pivotal role in quantum information science.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Yuchen Lu , Kun Fang

Quantum state tomography (QST) is the process of reconstructing the state of a quantum system (mathematically described as a density matrix) through a series of different measurements, which can be solved by learning a parameterized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Hailan Ma , Zhenhong Sun , Daoyi Dong , Chunlin Chen , Herschel Rabitz

Quantum state tomography is a technique in quantum information science used to reconstruct the density matrix of an unknown quantum state, providing complete information about the quantum state. It is of significant importance in fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Wenlong Zhao , Da Zhang , Huili Zhang , Haifeng Yu , Zhang-qi Yin

This thesis synthesizes probability and entropic inference with Quantum Mechanics (QM) and quantum measurement [1-6]. It is shown that the standard and quantum relative entropies are tools designed for the purpose of updating probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Kevin Vanslette

We present a protocol that allows the estimation of any density matrix element for continuous-variable quantum states, without resorting to the complete reconstruction of the full density matrix. The algorithm adaptatively discretizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Virginia Feldman , Ariel Bendersky

Entropy-like functionals on operator algebras have been studied since the pioneering work of von Neumann, Umegaki, Lindblad, and Lieb. The most well-known are the von Neumann entropy $trace (\rho\log \rho)$ and a generalization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-19 Tryphon T. Georgiou

Quantum detector tomography (QDT) is a fundamental technique for calibrating quantum devices and performing quantum engineering tasks. In this paper, we utilize regularization to improve the QDT accuracy whenever the probe states are…

In the study of quantum limits to parameter estimation, the high dimensionality of the density operator and that of the unknown parameters have long been two of the most difficult challenges. Here we propose a theory of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Mankei Tsang , Francesco Albarelli , Animesh Datta

For a closed-loop control system with a digital channel between the sensor and the controller, the notion of invariance entropy quantifies the smallest average rate of information above which a given compact subset of the state space can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Mahendra Singh Tomar , Christoph Kawan , Majid Zamani

Quantum state tomography, the ability to deduce the density matrix of a quantum system from measured data, is of fundamental importance for the verification of present and future quantum devices. It has been realized in systems with few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-22 M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

We study the local relaxation of closed quantum systems through the relative entropy between the reduced density matrix and its long time limit. We show, using analytic arguments combined with numerical checks, that this relative entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-29 Filiberto Ares , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

We introduce a new notion of entropy for quantum states, called contextual entropy, and show how it unifies Shannon and von Neumann entropy. The main result is that from the knowledge of the contextual entropy of a quantum state of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-13 Carmen Maria Constantin , Andreas Doering

The recent article "Entropic Updating of Probability and Density Matrices" [1] derives and demonstrates the inferential origins of both the standard and quantum relative entropies in unison. Operationally, the standard and quantum relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Kevin Vanslette

We investigate variational problems in quantum thermodynamics at positive temperature, in which admissible states are constrained by prescribed outcomes of a finite set of measurements. We solve a problem raised by the recent work [Liu,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Pavlo Pelikh , Lorenzo Portinale