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Wire cutting is a technique for partitioning large quantum circuits into smaller subcircuits in such a way that observables for the original circuits can be estimated from measurements on the smaller subcircuits. Such techniques provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Edwin Pednault

Measurement incompatibility describes two or more quantum measurements whose expected joint outcome on a given system cannot be defined. This purely non-classical phenomenon provides a necessary ingredient in many quantum information tasks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Francesco Buscemi , Eric Chitambar , Wenbin Zhou

Unambiguous unitary maps and unambiguous unitary quantum channels are introduced and some of their properties are derived. These properties ensure certain simple form for the measurements involved in realizing an unambiguous unitary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Shengjun Wu , Xuemei Chen

We investigate the control resources needed to effect arbitrary quantum dynamics. We show that the ability to perform measurements on a quantum system, combined with the ability to feed back the measurement results via coherent control,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Seth Lloyd , Lorenza Viola

A controlled quantum dense coding scheme is investigated with a four-particle non-maximal quantum channel. The amount of classical information is shown to be capable of being controlled by the controllers through adjustments of the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chang-Bao Fu , Yan Xia , Bo-Xue Liu , Shou Zhang , Kyu-Hwang Yeon , Chung-In Um

The accuracies of modern quantum logic clocks have surpassed those of standard atomic fountain clocks. These clocks also provide a greater degree of control, because before and after clock queries, we are able to apply chosen unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-28 Michael Mullan , Emanuel Knill

There has been a surge of progress in recent years in developing algorithms for testing and learning quantum states that achieve optimal copy complexity. Unfortunately, they require the use of entangled measurements across many copies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Sebastien Bubeck , Sitan Chen , Jerry Li

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,…

Nielsen [quant-ph/0108020] showed that universal quantum computation is possible given quantum memory and the ability to perform projective measurements on up to 4-qubits. We describe an improved method that requires only 2-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. W. Leung

The expectation value <O> of an arbitrary operator O can be obtained via a universal measuring apparatus that is independent of O, by changing only the data-processing of the outcomes. Such a ``universal detector'' performs a joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. D'Ariano , P. Perinotti , M. F. Sacchi

Generalized quantum measurements are an important extension of projective or von Neumann measurements, in that they can be used to describe any measurement that can be implemented on a quantum system. We describe how to realize two…

We develop a theory for finding quantum error correction (QEC) procedures which are optimized for given noise channels. Our theory accounts for uncertainties in the noise channel, against which our QEC procedures are robust. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-28 Soraya Taghavi , Robert L. Kosut , Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum combs play a vital role in characterizing and transforming quantum processes, with wide-ranging applications in quantum information processing. However, obtaining the explicit quantum circuit for the desired quantum comb remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Yin Mo , Lei Zhang , Yu-Ao Chen , Yingjian Liu , Tengxiang Lin , Xin Wang

Unitarity serves as a fundamental concept for characterizing linear and conservative wave phenomena in both classical and quantum systems. Developing platforms that perform unitary operations on light waves in a uni-versal and programmable…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kyuho Kim , Kunwoo Park , Hyungchul Park , Sunkyu Yu , Namkyoo Park , Xianji Piao

Obtaining the expectation value of an observable on a quantum computer is a crucial step in the variational quantum algorithms. For complicated observables such as molecular electronic Hamiltonians, a common strategy is to present the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Tzu-Ching Yen , Aadithya Ganeshram , Artur F. Izmaylov

To establish an entangled state of optimal fidelity between two distant observers when the available quantum channel is noisy, is a central problem in quantum information theory. We consider an instance of this problem for two-qubit systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay , Anindita Ghosh

We present an optical implementation of two programmable quantum measurement devices. The first one serves for unambiguous discrimination of two nonorthogonal states of a qubit. The particular pair of states to be discriminated is specified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Soubusta , Antonin Cernoch , Jaromir Fiurasek , Miloslav Dusek

We provide a constructive algorithm to find the best separable approximation to an arbitrary density matrix of a composite quantum system of finite dimensions. The method leads to a condition of separability and to a measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maciej Lewenstein , Anna Sanpera

We construct a single observable measurement of which mean value on four copies of an {\it unknown} two-qubit state is sufficient for unambiguous decision whether the state is separable or entangled. In other words, there exists a universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Remigiusz Augusiak , Maciej Demianowicz , Pawel Horodecki

We present a scheme for speeding up quantum measurement. The scheme builds on previous protocols that entangle the system to be measured with ancillary systems. In the idealised situation of perfect entangling operations and no decoherence,…