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Achieving ultimate bounds in estimation processes is the main objective of quantum metrology. In this context, several problems require measurement of multiple parameters by employing only a limited amount of resources. To this end,…

Unitary errors, such as those arising from fault-tolerant compilation of quantum algorithms, systematically bias observable estimates. Correcting this bias typically requires additional resources, such as an increased number of non-Clifford…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Dmitrii Khitrin , Kenneth R. Brown , Abhinav Anand

We characterize the multipartite entanglement of a system of n qubits in terms of the distribution function of the bipartite purity over balanced bipartitions. We search for maximally multipartite entangled states, whose average purity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 P. Facchi , G. Florio , U. Marzolino , G. Parisi , S. Pascazio

Dephasing is a prominent noise mechanism that afflicts quantum information carriers, and it is one of the main challenges towards realizing useful quantum computation, communication, and sensing. Here we consider discrimination and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Zixin Huang , Ludovico Lami , Mark M. Wilde

We address parameter estimation in two-level systems exhibiting level anti-crossing and prove that universally optimal strategies for parameter estimation may be designed, that is, we may find a parameter independent measurement scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Luca Ghirardi , Ilaria Siloi , Paolo Bordone , Filippo Troiani , Matteo G. A. Paris

We present a new method of analytically deriving the entanglement of formation of the bipartite mixed state. The method realizes the optimal decomposition families of states. Our method can lead to many new results concerning entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-16 Lin Chen , Yi-Xin Chen

We study the problem of optimizing nonlinear objective functions over bipartite matchings. While the problem is generally intractable, we provide several efficient algorithms for it, including a deterministic algorithm for maximizing convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-24 Yael Berstein , Shmuel Onn

Here, we study the capacity of a quantum channel, assuming linear optical encoding, as a function of available photons and optical modes. First, we observe that substantial improvement is made possible by not restricting ourselves to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Jake A. Smith , Dmitry B. Uskov , Lev Kaplan

We investigate optimal metrological protocols for phase estimation in the presence of correlated dephasing noise, including spin-squeezed states sensing strategies as well as parallel and adaptive protocols optimized using tensor-network…

We advocate a Bayesian approach to optimal quantum frequency estimation - an important issue for future quantum enhanced atomic clock operation. The approach provides a clear insight into the interplay between decoherence and the extent of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Katarzyna Macieszczak , Martin Fraas , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

With the rapid advancement of Quantum Machine Learning (QML), the critical need to enhance security measures against adversarial attacks and protect QML models becomes increasingly evident. In this work, we outline the connection between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 David Winderl , Nicola Franco , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Quantum metrology and sensing seek advantage in estimating an unknown parameter of some quantum state or channel, using entanglement such as spin squeezing produced by one-axis twists or other quantum resources. In particular, qubit phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Tyler G. Thurtell , Akimasa Miyake

A method to compute the optimal success probability of discrimination of N arbitrary quantum states is presented, based on the decomposition of any N-outcome measurement into sequences of nested two-outcome ones. In this way the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Matteo Rosati , Giacomo De Palma , Andrea Mari , Vittorio Giovannetti

Quantum reading provides a general framework where to formulate the statistical discrimination of quantum channels. Several paths have been taken for such a problem. However, there is much to be done in the avenue of optimizing channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Francisco Revson F. Pereira , Stefano Mancini

We consider a quantum computation that only extracts one bit of information per $N$-qubit quantum state preparation. This is relevant for error mitigation schemes where the remainder of the system is measured to detect errors. We optimize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Stefano Polla , Gian-Luca R. Anselmetti , Thomas E. O'Brien

We seek for the optimal strategy to infer the width $a$ of an infinite potential wells by performing measurements on the particle(s) contained in the well. In particular, we address quantum estimation theory as the proper framework to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Ilaria Pizio , Shivani Singh , C. M. Chandrashekar , Matteo G. A. Paris

In this paper we give an explicit parametrization for all two qubit density matrices. This is important for calculations involving entanglement and many other types of quantum information processing. To accomplish this we present a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Todd Tilma , Mark S. Byrd , E. C. G. Sudarshan

We present an efficient tensor-network based algorithm for finding the optimal adaptive quantum channel discrimination strategies inspired by recently developed numerical methods in quantum metrology to find the optimal adaptive channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Stanisław Sieniawski , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

A generic scheme for the parametrization of mixed state systems is introduced, which is then adapted to bipartite systems, especially to a 2-qubit system. Various features of 2-qubit entanglement are analyzed based on the scheme. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Otto C. W. Kong , Hock King Ting

We introduce an operational interpretation for pure-state global multipartite entanglement based on quantum estimation. We show that the estimation of the strength of low-noise locally depolarizing channels, as quantified by the regularized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergio Boixo , Alex Monras