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Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain problems faster than classical computers by exploiting quantum mechanical effects such as superposition. However, building high-quality quantum software is challenging due to the…

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Nonlinear properties of quantum states are essential to quantum information and many-body physics, but assessing them experimentally is challenging, as it typically requires multi-copy operations or a large number of measurement settings.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zihao Li , Datong Chen , Dayue Qin , Yuxiang Yang , You Zhou

Quantum purity amplification (QPA) is the task of coherently transforming $n$ copies of a mixed state into high-fidelity copies of a chosen eigenstate. We solve QPA in the general setting of $n$ input copies, $m$ output copies, arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Zhaoyi Li , Elias Theil , Aram W. Harrow , Isaac Chuang

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) suffer from a fundamental sampling bottleneck since quantum measurements are probabilistic, requiring many circuit executions to estimate outputs with sufficient accuracy. Conventional Monte-Carlo (MC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Jaemin Seo

We investigate quantum repeater protocols based upon atomic qubit-entanglement distribution through optical coherent-state communication. Various measurement schemes for an optical mode entangled with two spatially separated atomic qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Peter van Loock , Norbert Lütkenhaus , W. J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Quantum-phase-estimation algorithms are critical subroutines in many applications for quantum computers and in quantum-metrology protocols. These algorithms estimate the unknown strength of a unitary evolution. By using coherence or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Joseph G. Smith , Crispin H. W. Barnes , David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur

The generalized eigenvalue (GE) problems are of particular importance in various areas of science engineering and machine learning. We present a variational quantum algorithm for finding the desired generalized eigenvalue of the GE problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Jin-Min Liang , Shu-Qian Shen , Ming Li , Shao-Ming Fei

We present an approach to Bayesian mean estimation of quantum states using hyperspherical parametrization and an experiment-specific likelihood which allows utilization of all available data, even when qubits are lost. With this method, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Brian P. Williams , Pavel Lougovski

We consider the statistics of overlaps between a mixed state and its image under random unitary transformations. Choosing the transformations from the unitary group with its invariant (Haar) measure, the distribution of overlaps depends…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Lázaro Alonso , David Bermudez , Thomas Gorin

We set out a general protocol for steering the state of a quantum system from an arbitrary initial state towards a chosen target state by coupling it to auxiliary quantum degrees of freedom. The protocol requires multiple repetitions of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-09 Sthitadhi Roy , J. T. Chalker , I. V. Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

For a fixed average energy, the simultaneous estimation of multiple phases can provide a better total precision than estimating them individually. We show this for a multimode interferometer with a phase in each mode, using Gaussian inputs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Christos N. Gagatsos , Dominic Branford , Animesh Datta

In this thesis, attention is paid to small experimental testbed applications with respect to the quantum phase estimation algorithm, the core approach for finding energy eigenvalues. An iterative scheme for quantum phase estimation (IPEA)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-07 Miroslav Dobšíček

Quantum metrology derives its capabilities from the careful employ of quantum resources for carrying out measurements. This advantage, however, relies on refined data postprocessing, assessed based on the variance of the estimated…

Measurement underpins all quantitative science. A key example is the measurement of optical phase, used in length metrology and many other applications. Advances in precision measurement have consistently led to important scientific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. L. Higgins , D. W. Berry , S. D. Bartlett , H. M. Wiseman , G. J. Pryde

Decoy-state methods [1-3] are essential to perform quantum key distribution (QKD) at large distances in the absence of single photon sources. However, the standard techniques apply only if laser pulses are used that are independent and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Shlok Nahar , Twesh Upadhyaya , Norbert Lütkenhaus

We show that measuring any two quantum states by a random POVM, under a suitable definition of randomness, gives probability distributions having total variation distance at least a universal constant times the Frobenius distance between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pranab Sen

We present a method of tomography that measures the joint spectral phase (JSP) of spontaneously emitted photon pairs originating from a largely uncharacterized ``target" source. We use quantum interference between our target source and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 I. I. Faruque , B. M. Burridge , M. Banic , M. Borghi , J. E. Sipe , J. G. Rarity , J. Barreto

We find a large class of pure and mixed input states with which the phase estimation precision saturates the Cramer-Rao bound under the compound measurements of parity and particle number. We further propose a quantum-phase-estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Haijun Xing , Libin Fu , Su Yi

Quantum error correction in general is experimentally challenging as it requires significant expansion of the size of quantum circuits and accurate performance of quantum gates to fulfill the error threshold requirement. Here we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 C. Shen , L. -M. Duan

Quantum phase estimation is a core task in quantum technologies ranging from metrology to quantum computing, where it appears as a key subroutine in various algorithms. Here, we quantitatively connect the performance of phase estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Felix Ahnefeld , Thomas Theurer , Martin B. Plenio