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Inserting a lossy dielectric into one arm of an interference experiment acts in many ways like a measurement. If two entangled photons are passed through the interferometer, a certain amount of information is gained about which path they…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Todd A. Brun , Stephen M. Barnett

Quantum advantage requires overcoming noise-induced degradation of quantum systems. Conventional methods for reducing noise such as error mitigation face scalability issues in deep circuits. Specifically, noise hampers the extraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yonglong Ding , Ruyu Yang

We demonstrate that, in the case of Shor's algorithm for factoring, highly mixed states will allow efficient quantum computation, indeed factorization can be achieved efficiently with just one initial pure qubit and a supply of initally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Parker , M. B. Plenio

Born's rule, one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics, relates detection probabilities to the modulus square of the wave function. Single-particle interference is accordingly limited to pairs of quantum paths and higher-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-13 Marc-Oliver Pleinert , Joachim von Zanthier , Eric Lutz

The desired interference required for quantum computing may be modified by the wave function oscillations for the implementation of quantum algorithms[Phys.Rev.Lett.84(2000)1615]. To diminish such detrimental effect, we propose a scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mang Feng

The formation of multipartite quantum entanglement by repeated operation of one and two qubit gates is examined. The resulting entanglement is evaluated using two measures: the average bipartite entanglement and the Groverian measure. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yonatan Most , Yishai Shimoni , Ofer Biham

The eigenvalue density of a matrix plays an important role in various types of scientific computing such as electronic-structure calculations. In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm for computing the eigenvalue density in a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Yasunori Futamura , Xiucai Ye , Tetsuya Sakurai

Measurement is a fundamental operation in quantum computing and has many important use cases in quantum algorithms. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the basic measurement operations in quantum computing and represents a…

We have implemented an optical quantum eraser with the aim of studying this phenomenon in the context of state discrimination. An interfering single photon is entangled with another one serving as a which-path marker. As a consequence, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L Neves , G Lima , J Aguirre , F A Torres-Ruiz , C Saavedra , A Delgado

The method of noisy multiqubit quantum circuits modeling is proposed. The analytical formulas for the dependence of quantum algorithms accuracy on qubits count and noise level are obtained for Grover algorithm and quantum Fourier transform.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Yu. I. Bogdanov , A. Yu. Chernyavskiy , B. I. Bantysh , D. V. Fastovets , V. F. Likichev

The von Neumann and quantum R\'enyi entropies characterize fundamental properties of quantum systems and lead to theoretical and practical applications in many fields. Quantum algorithms for estimating quantum entropies, using a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Youle Wang , Benchi Zhao , Xin Wang

It is known that quantum interference can disappear with the mere possibility of distinguishability without actually performing the act. We create such distinguishability in an unbalanced SU(1,1) interferometer and indeed observe no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nan Huo , Liang Cui , Yunxiao Zhang , Wen Zhao , Xueshi Guo , Z. Y. Ou , Xiaoying Li

Quantifying quantum coherence is a key task in the resource theory of coherence. Here we establish a good coherence monotone in terms of a state conversion process, which automatically endows the coherence monotone with an operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Deng-hui Yu , Li-qiang Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

Grover's search algorithm was a groundbreaking advancement in quantum algorithms, displaying a quadratic speed-up of querying for items. Since the creation of this algorithm it has been utilized in various ways, including in preparing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Andrew Vlasic , Salvatore Certo , Anh Pham

Quantum mechanics and gravitation are two pillars of modern physics. Despite their success in describing the physical world around us, they seem to be incompatible theories. There are suggestions that one of these theories must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Urbasi Sinha , Christophe Couteau , Thomas Jennewein , Raymond Laflamme , Gregor Weihs

Classically, wave interference is a phenomenon that can be explained by considering only the waves themselves, that is, without the need to consider the apparatus that monitors or observes them. Thus, in classical theories, interference can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Alexandre Cesar Ricardo , Ciro Micheletti Diniz , Celso Jorge Villas-Bôas

We study the statistics of quantum interference for completely positive maps. We calculate analytically the mean interference and its second moment for finite dimensional quantum systems interacting with a simple environment consisting of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ludovic Arnaud , Daniel Braun

Query complexity is a model of computation in which we have to compute a function $f(x_1, \ldots, x_N)$ of variables $x_i$ which can be accessed via queries. The complexity of an algorithm is measured by the number of queries that it makes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Andris Ambainis

Quantum algorithms face significant challenges due to qubit susceptibility to environmental noise, and quantum error correction typically requires prohibitive resource overhead. This paper proposes that quantum algorithms may possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Fusheng Yang , Zhipeng Liang , Zhengzhong Yi , Xuan Wang

A quantum computer is a multi-particle interferometer that comprises beam splitters at both ends and arms, where the n two-level particles undergo the interactions among them. The arms are designed so that relevant functions required to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Yamaguchi , C. P. Master , Y. Yamamoto