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We study a coarse-graining map arising from incomplete and imperfect addressing of particles in a multipartite quantum system. In its simplest form, corresponding to a two-qubit state, the resulting channel produces a convex mixture of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 K. Uriostegui , C. Pineda , C. Chryssomalakos , V. Rascón Barajas , I. Vázquez Mota

We prove a rigorous inequality estimating the purity of a reduced density matrix of a composite quantum system in terms of cross-correlation of the same state and an arbitrary product state. Various immediate applications of our result are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomaz Prosen , Thomas H. Seligman , Marko Znidaric

Recently, the dynamics of quantum systems that involve both unitary evolution and quantum measurements have attracted attention due to the exotic phenomenon of measurement-induced phase transitions. The latter refers to a sudden change in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Ryotaro Suzuki , Jonas Haferkamp , Jens Eisert , Philippe Faist

Entanglement properties of purified quantum states are of key interest for two reasons. First, in quantum information theory, minimally entangled purified states define the Entanglement of Purification as a fundamental measure for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-05 Tim Pokart , Carl Lehmann , Jan Carl Budich

Machine learning is actively being explored for its potential to design, validate, and even hybridize with near-term quantum devices. A central question is whether neural networks can provide a tractable representation of a given quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Giacomo Torlai , Roger G. Melko

We propose a quantum algorithm for the purification of a generic mixed state $\rho$ of a $n$-qudit system by using an ancillary $n$-qudit system. The algorithm is optimal in that (i) the number of ancillary qudits cannot be reduced, (ii)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Giuliano Benenti , Giuliano Strini

The need to retain the relative phases in quantum mechanics implies an addition law parametrized by a phase of two density operators required for the purification of a density matrix. This is shown with quantum tomography and the Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , E. C. G. Sudarshan , F. Zaccaria

We study an exactly solvable model of monitored dynamics in a system of $N$ spin-$1/2$ particles with pairwise all-to-all noisy interactions, where each spin is constantly perturbed by weak measurements of the spin component in a random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-25 Guido Giachetti , Andrea De Luca

Continuous monitoring of an otherwise closed quantum system has been found to lead to a measurement-induced phase transition (MIPT) characterized by abrupt changes in the entanglement or purity of the many-body quantum state. For an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Stav Haldar , Anthony J. Brady

Recent experiments have probed the relative likelihoods of trajectories in stochastic systems by observing survival probabilities within a tube of radius $R$ in spacetime. We measure such probabilities here for a colloidal particle in a…

Chaotic transverse-field Ising model with measurements exhibits interesting purification dynamics. Ensemble of non-unitary dynamics of a chaotic many-body system with measurements exhibits a purification phase transition. We numerically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Yoshihito Kuno , Takahiro Orito , Ikuo Ichinose

We consider entanglement purification protocols for multiple copies of qubit states. We use high-dimensional auxiliary entangled systems to learn about number and positions of errors in the noisy ensemble in an explicit and controlled way,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Ferran Riera Sàbat , Pavel Sekatski , Alexander Pirker , Wolfgang Dür

The goal of qubit purification is to combine multiple noisy copies of an unknown pure quantum state to obtain one or more copies that are closer to the pure state. We show that a simple protocol based solely on random SWAP tests achieves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Shrigyan Brahmachari , Austin Hulse , Henry D. Pfister , Iman Marvian

An iterative random procedure is considered allowing an entanglement purification of a class of multi-mode quantum states. In certain cases, a complete purification may be achieved using only a single signal state preparation. A physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J Clausen , L Knoell , D-G Welsch

Given an ensemble of mixed qubit states, it is possible to increase the purity of the constituent states using a procedure known as state purification. The reverse operation, which we refer to as dilution, reduces the level of purity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Peter Bowles , Madalin Guta , Gerardo Adesso

Characterizing and quantifying quantum correlations in states of many-particle systems is at the core of a full understanding of phase transitions in matter. In this work, we continue our investigation of the notion of generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rolando Somma , Gerardo Ortiz , Howard Barnum , Emanuel Knill , Lorenza Viola

Quantum dynamical simulations of statistical ensembles pose a significant computational challenge due to the fact that mixed states need to be represented. If the underlying dynamics is fully unitary, for example in ultrafast coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Marec W. Heger , Christiane P. Koch , Daniel M. Reich

We propose a solid-state experiment to study the process of continuous quantum measurement of a qubit state. The experiment would verify that an individual qubit stays coherent during the process of measurement (in contrast to the gradual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander N. Korotkov

Quantum networks rely on the efficient distribution of entanglement to enable long-distance quantum communication and information processing. A key challenge in these networks is the design of routing protocols capable of maintaining high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Javier Vecino Peñas , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Sergio Gándara Gándara , Manuel Fernández-Veiga

We study the task of lifting arbitrary quantum states and channels to purifications and Stinespring dilations, respectively, in both the probabilistic exact and deterministic approximate settings. We formalize this task through a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Zoe G. del Toro , Jessica Bavaresco