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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

Measuring properties of quantum systems is a fundamental problem in quantum mechanics. We provide a simple method for estimating the expectation value of observables with an unknown quantum state. The idea is to use a data structure to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Naixu Guo , Feng Pan , Patrick Rebentrost

A central challenge in quantum simulation is to prepare low-energy states of strongly interacting many-body systems. In this work, we study the problem of preparing a quantum state that optimizes a random all-to-all, sparse or dense, spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Joao Basso , Chi-Fang Chen , Alexander M. Dalzell

Systems in thermal equilibrium at non-zero temperature are described by their Gibbs state. For classical many-body systems, the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm gives a Markov process with a local update rule that samples from the Gibbs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Daniel Zhang , Jan Lukas Bosse , Toby Cubitt

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

We study the problem of learning a local quantum Hamiltonian $H$ given copies of its Gibbs state $\rho = e^{-\beta H}/\textrm{tr}(e^{-\beta H})$ at a known inverse temperature $\beta>0$. Anshu, Arunachalam, Kuwahara, and Soleimanifar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Ainesh Bakshi , Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra , Ewin Tang

Shadow estimation provides an efficient framework for estimating observable expectation values using randomized measurements. While originally developed for discrete-variable systems, its recent extensions to continuous-variable (CV)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Ruyu Yang , Xiaoming Sun , Hongyi Zhou

We show how quantum metrology protocols that seek to estimate the parameters of a Hamiltonian that exhibits a quantum phase transition can be efficiently simulated on an exponentially smaller quantum computer. Specifically, by exploiting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 W. L. Boyajian , M. Skotiniotis , W. Dür , B. Kraus

In the problem of quantum state tomography, one is given $n$ copies of an unknown rank-$r$ mixed state $\rho \in \mathbb{C}^{d \times d}$ and asked to produce an estimator of $\rho$. In this work, we present the debiased Keyl's algorithm,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Angelos Pelecanos , Jack Spilecki , John Wright

We give an improved algorithm for learning a quantum Hamiltonian given copies of its Gibbs state, that can succeed at any temperature. Specifically, we improve over the work of Bakshi, Liu, Moitra, and Tang [BLMT24], by reducing the sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Shyam Narayanan

Efficiently learning expectation values of a quantum state using classical shadow tomography has become a fundamental task in quantum information theory. In a classical shadows protocol, one measures a state in a chosen basis W after it has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Maxwell West , Antonio Anna Mele , Martin Larocca , M. Cerezo

Quantum Hamiltonian identification is important for characterizing the dynamics of quantum systems, calibrating quantum devices and achieving precise quantum control. In this paper, an effective two-step optimization (TSO) quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Yuanlong Wang , Daoyi Dong , Bo Qi , Jun Zhang , Ian R. Petersen , Hidehiro Yonezawa

A new qubit tomography protocol is introduced, based on a continuous positive operator valued measure, which is supported by the set of pure states, and equivariant under the symmetry group SO(3,R) of the qubit state space. Thus the sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-14 Tamás Tasnádi

We show that it is possible to uniquely reconstruct a generic many-body local Hamiltonian from a single pair of initial and final states related by time evolution with the Hamiltonian. We then propose a practical version of the protocol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Zhi Li , Liujun Zou , Timothy H. Hsieh

It is of great interest to understand the thermalization of open quantum many-body systems, and how quantum computers are able to efficiently simulate that process. A recently introduced disispative evolution, inspired by existing models of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França , Álvaro M. Alhambra

In this work, we present a Gibbs state observable estimation algorithm based on Trotter interpolation, which reaches a state-of-the-art quantum computational cost of $ \tilde{O}(\beta \log{1/\epsilon})$. Our approach saves $\log(\Gamma)$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Taozhi Guo , Gumaro Rendon , Rutuja Kshirsagar

Solving the ground state and the ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems is generically a hard task for classical algorithms. For a family of Hamiltonians defined on an $m$-dimensional space of physical parameters, the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Franco Nori

We study the problem of learning the Hamiltonian of a quantum many-body system given samples from its Gibbs (thermal) state. The classical analog of this problem, known as learning graphical models or Boltzmann machines, is a well-studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Anurag Anshu , Srinivasan Arunachalam , Tomotaka Kuwahara , Mehdi Soleimanifar

In this work, we initiate the study of Hamiltonian learning for positive temperature bosonic Gaussian states, the quantum generalization of the widely studied problem of learning Gaussian graphical models. We obtain efficient protocols,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Marco Fanizza , Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França

Measurements of an object's temperature are important in many disciplines, from astronomy to engineering, as are estimates of an object's spatial configuration. We present the quantum optimal estimator for the temperature of a distant body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 Mark E. Pearce , Earl T. Campbell , Pieter Kok