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While dissipation has traditionally been viewed as an obstacle to quantum coherence, it is increasingly recognized as a powerful computational resource. Dissipative protocols can prepare complex many-body quantum states by leveraging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Lin Lin

Due to the exponential complexity of the resources required by quantum state tomography (QST), people are interested in approaches towards identifying quantum states which require less effort and time. In this paper, we provide a tailored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 K. Li , J. Zhang , S. Cong

Quantum computation with $d$-level quantum systems, also known as qudits, benefits from the possibility to use a richer computational space compared to qubits. However, for an arbitrary qudit-based hardware platform, the issue is that a…

We introduce a mixed-state magic criterion, the Triangle Criterion, which plays a role for magic analogous to the Positive Partial Transposition (PPT) Criterion for entanglement: it combines strong detection capability, a clear geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhenhuan Liu , Tobias Haug , Qi Ye , Zi-Wen Liu , Ingo Roth

Quantum error mitigation is essential for computing on the noisy quantum computer with a limited number of qubits. In this paper, we propose a practical protocol of error mitigation by virtually purifying the quantum state without qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Mingxia Huo , Ying Li

Entanglement distillation is a procedure for extracting from one or more pairs of entangled qubits a smaller number of pairs with a higher degree of entanglement that is essential for many applications in quantum information science.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-26 Taehyun Kim , Franco N. C. Wong

Quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols most often use two conjugate bases in order to verify the security of the quantum channel. In the majority of protocols, these bases are mutually unbiased to one another, which is to say they are…

We analyze the efficacy of multiqubit W-type states as resources for quantum information. For this, we identify and generalize four-qubit W-type states. Our results show that the states can be used as resources for deterministic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Parvinder Singh , Satyabrata Adhikari , Atul Kumar

Generation and preservation of quantum entanglement are among the primary tasks in quantum information processing. State stabilization via quantum bath engineering offers a resource-efficient approach to achieve this objective. However,…

Traditional quantum error-correcting codes are designed for the depolarizing channel modeled by generalized Pauli errors occurring with equal probability. Amplitude damping channels model, in general, the decay process of a multilevel atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Markus Grassl , Linghang Kong , Zhaohui Wei , Zhang-Qi Yin , Bei Zeng

The degradation of entanglement in quantum memories due to decoherence is a critical challenge for scalable quantum networks. We present an entanglement distillation protocol based on the [[4,2,2]] quantum error-detecting code, deriving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Huidan Zheng , Gunsik Min , Ilkwon Sohn , Jun Heo

Obtaining accurate representations of the eigenstates of an array of coupled superconducting qubits is a crucial step in the design of circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED)-based quantum processors. However, exact diagonalization of the…

Contemporary quantum computers have relatively high levels of noise, making it difficult to use them to perform useful calculations, even with a large number of qubits. Quantum error correction is expected to eventually enable…

The initialization of quantum states or Quantum State Preparation (QSP) is a basic subroutine in quantum algorithms. In the worst case, general QSP algorithms are expensive due to the application of multi-controlled gates required to build…

We consider the task of secure multi-party distributed quantum computation on a quantum network. We propose a protocol based on quantum error correction which reduces the number of necessary qubits. That is, each of the $n$ nodes in our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Victoria Lipinska , Jérémy Ribeiro , Stephanie Wehner

Magic State Distillation (MSD) has been a research focus for fault-tolerant quantum computing due to the need for non-Clifford resource in gaining quantum advantage. Although many of the MSD protocols so far are based on stabilizer codes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Yunzhe Zheng , Dong E. Liu

We present a security proof for establishing private entanglement by means of recurrence-type entanglement distillation protocols over noisy quantum channels. We consider protocols where the local devices are imperfect, and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Alexander Pirker , Vedran Dunjko , Wolfgang Dür , Hans J. Briegel

Information processing, quantum or classical, relies on channels transforming multiple input states to different corresponding outputs. Previous research has established bounds on the thermodynamic resources required for such operations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Joe Dunlop , Federico Cerisola , Jorge Tabanera-Bravo , Janet Anders

We analyze the security of quantum cryptography schemes for $d$-level systems using 2 or $d+1$ maximally conjugated bases, under individual eavesdropping attacks based on cloning machines and measurement after the basis reconciliation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio Acin , Nicolas Gisin , Valerio Scarani

We propose local strategies to protect global quantum information. The protocols, which are quantum error correcting codes for dissipative systems, are based on environment measurements, direct feedback control and simple encoding of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-13 Eduardo Mascarenhas , Breno Marques , Marcelo Terra Cunha , Marcelo França Santos