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Quantum state preparation is an important class of quantum algorithms that is employed as a black-box subroutine in many algorithms, or used by itself to generate arbitrary probability distributions. We present a novel state preparation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Yutaro Iiyama

Consider the question: what statistical ensemble corresponds to minimal prior knowledge about a quantum system ? For the case where the system is in fact known to be in a pure state there is an obvious answer, corresponding to the unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael J. W. Hall

The joint state of a system that is in contact with an environment is called lazy, if the entropy rate of the system under any coupling to the environment is zero. Necessary and sufficient conditions have recently been established for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Adrian Hutter , Stephanie Wehner

We find the necessary and sufficient conditions for the entropy rate of the system to be zero under any system-environment Hamiltonian interaction. We call the class of system-environment states that satisfy this condition lazy states. They…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-09 Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario , Gen Kimura , Hideki Imai , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

In a paper of us, it is showed that Density Matrices do not provide a complete description of ensembles of states in quantum mechanics, since they lack measurable information concerning the preparation of the ensembles. Bodor and Di\'osi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 F. Fratini , A. G. Hayrapetyan

Suppose you receive a sequence of qubits where each qubit is guaranteed to be in one of two pure states, but you do not know what those states are. Your task is to determine the states. This can be viewed as a kind of quantum state learning…

In quantum information geometry, the curvature of von-Neumann entropy and relative entropy induce a natural metric on the space of mixed quantum states. Here we use this information metric to construct a random matrix ensemble for states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Harry J. D. Miller

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) performs statistical inference for otherwise intractable probability models by accepting parameter proposals when corresponding simulated datasets are sufficiently close to the observations. Producing…

Computation · Statistics 2014-12-05 Dennis Prangle

We present a formalism that captures the process of proving quantum superiority to skeptics as an interactive game between two agents, supervised by a referee. Bob, is sampling from a classical distribution on a quantum device that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Daniel Stilck França , Raul Garcia-Patron

We study eavesdropping in quantum key distribution with the six state protocol,when the signal states are mixed with white noise. This situation may arise either when Alice deliberately adds noise to the signal states before they leave her…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-08 Z. Shadman , H. Kampermann , T. Meyer , D. Bruss

This paper addresses the challenge of preparing mixed quantum states -- both arbitrary states in general and highly sparse ones in particular -- an area that has received far less attention than the preparation of pure states. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Bo-Hung Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou , Jie-Hong Roland Jiang

In the realm of quantum information processing, the efficient characterization of entangled states poses an overwhelming challenge, rendering the traditional methods including quantum tomography unfeasible and impractical. To tackle this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Ye-Chao Liu , Jiangwei Shang

In the Gaussian-modulated coherent states (GMCS) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol, Alice prepares quantum states \emph{actively}: for each transmission, Alice generates a pair of Gaussian-distributed random numbers, encodes them on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Bing Qi , Philip G. Evans , Warren Grice

We consider a scenario of remote state preparation (RSP) of qubits in the context of sequential network scenario. A single copy of an entangled state is shared between Alice on one side, and several Bobs on the other, who sequentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Shounak Datta , Shiladitya Mal , Arun K. Pati , A. S. Majumdar

We numerically investigate statistical ensembles for the occupations of eigenstates of an isolated quantum system emerging as a result of quantum quenches. The systems investigated are sparse random matrix Hamiltonians and disordered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-14 Fabian Kolley , Oriol Bohigas , Boris V. Fine

A fundamental task in quantum information is to approximate a pure quantum state in terms of sparse states or, for a bipartite system, states of bounded Schmidt rank. The optimal deterministic approximation in each case is straightforward,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Aram W. Harrow , Angus Lowe , Freek Witteveen

A candidate application for quantum computers is to simulate the low-temperature properties of quantum systems. For this task, there is a well-studied quantum algorithm that performs quantum phase estimation on an initial trial state that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Chi-Fang , Chen , Alexander M. Dalzell , Mario Berta , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Joel A. Tropp

Consider a mixed quantum mechanical state, describing a statistical ensemble in terms of an arbitrary density operator $\rho$ of low purity, $\tr\rho^2\ll 1$, and yielding the ensemble averaged expectation value $\tr(\rho A)$ for any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Reimann

Quantum state smoothing is a technique to construct an estimate of the quantum state at a particular time, conditioned on a measurement record from both before and after that time. The technique assumes that an observer, Alice, monitors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Kiarn T. Laverick , Areeya Chantasri , Howard M. Wiseman

We propose a new generalized remote state preparation protocol for using non-maximally entangled state as a shared resource. Different from the previous schemes, the parameters of measurement basis depend on not only the state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Xin-wei Zha , Jia-fan Xia , Jian-xia Qi