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Quantum state purification protocols, which mitigate noise by converting multiple copies of noisy quantum states into fewer copies with a lower noise level, have applications in quantum communication and computation with imperfect devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Benchi Zhao , Yu-Ao Chen , Xuanqiang Zhao , Chengkai Zhu , Giulio Chiribella , Xin Wang

Unspeakable coherence is a key feature separating quantum and classical physics. Modelled as asymmetry with respect to a continuous transformation generated by a physically relevant observable, such as the Hamiltonian or angular moment,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Benjamin Stratton , Chung-Yun Hsieh , Paul Skrzypczyk

Quantum state smoothing is a technique for assigning a valid quantum state to a partially observed dynamical system, using measurement records both prior and posterior to an estimation time. We show that the technique is greatly simplified…

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

The role of coherence in quantum thermodynamics has been extensively studied in the recent years and it is now well-understood that coherence between different energy eigenstates is a resource independent of other thermodynamics resources,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Iman Marvian

Quantum speed limits (QSLs) provide an upper bound for the speed of evolution of quantum states in any physical process. Based on the Stratonovich-Weyl correspondence, we derive a universal QSL bound in arbitrary phase spaces that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Weiquan Meng , Zhenyu Xu

Entanglement distillation is a key component of modular quantum computing and long-range quantum communications. However, this powerful tool to reduce noise in entangled states is difficult to realize in practice for two main reasons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Vikesh Siddhu , Erick Winston , David C. McKay , Ali Javadi-Abhari

Given a mixture of states, finding a way to optimally discriminate its elements is a prominent problem in quantum communication theory. In this paper, we will address mixtures of density operators that are unitarily equivalent via elements…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Alberto Acevedo , Janek Wehr

Distillation of entanglement using only Gaussian operations is an important primitive in quantum communication, quantum repeater architectures, and distributed quantum computing. Existing distillation protocols for continuous degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Earl T. Campbell , Jens Eisert

The immense scalability of continuous-variable cluster states motivates their study as a platform for quantum computing, with fault tolerance possible given sufficient squeezing and appropriately encoded qubits [Menicucci, PRL 112, 120504…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Blayney W. Walshe , Lucas J. Mensen , Ben Q. Baragiola , Nicolas C. Menicucci

We introduce an entanglement distillation (purification) protocol for supersinglet states composed of N qubits. The supersinglet state we target is a total spin zero state with zero spin variance, and has a fully entangled structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Saeed Ahmad , Shuang Li , Jonathan Raghoonanan , Kaixuan Zhou , Valentin Ivannikov , Tim Byrnes

As there is no quantum error correction code with universal set of transversal gates, several approaches have been proposed which, in combination of transversal gates, make universal fault-tolerant quantum computation possible. Magic state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Eesa Nikahd , Morteza Saheb Zamani , Mehdi Sedighi

Quantum measurement is universal for quantum computation. This universality allows alternative schemes to the traditional three-step organisation of quantum computation: initial state preparation, unitary transformation, measurement. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Simon Perdrix , Philippe Jorrand

Some two qubit interactions are singly sufficient for universal quantum computation but not without the use of an ancilla. Recent schemes for universal quantum computation have focused on hybrid physical systems using ancillae. In them, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 Kerem Halil-Shah , Daniel K. L. Oi

We propose a scheme of multipartite entanglement distillation driven by a complementary pair of stabilizer measurements, to distill directly a wider range of states beyond the stabilizer code states (such as the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akimasa Miyake , Hans J. Briegel

We study the task of lifting arbitrary quantum states and channels to purifications and Stinespring dilations, respectively, in both the probabilistic exact and deterministic approximate settings. We formalize this task through a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Zoe G. del Toro , Jessica Bavaresco

Suppose we are given two identical copies of an unknown quantum state and we wish to delete one copy from among the given two copies. The quantum no-deletion principle restricts us from perfectly deleting a copy but it does not prohibit us…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Satyabrata Adhikari

Magic state distillation is a crucial yet resource-intensive process in fault-tolerant quantum computation. The protocol's overhead, defined as the number of input magic states required per output magic state with an error rate below…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Adam Wills , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Hayata Yamasaki

We describe a generalization of the cluster-state model of quantum computation to continuous-variable systems, along with a proposal for an optical implementation using squeezed-light sources, linear optics, and homodyne detection. For…

We present an optimal probabilistic protocol to distill quantum coherence. Inspired by a specific entanglement distillation protocol, our main result yields a strictly incoherent operation that produces one of a family of maximally coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gokhan Torun , Ludovico Lami , Gerardo Adesso , Ali Yildiz

We develop error-tolerant quantum state discrimination(QSD) strategies that maintain reliable performance under moderate noise. Two complementary approaches are proposed: CrossQSD, which generalizes unambiguous discrimination with tunable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Chien-Kai Ma , Bo-Hung Chen , Tian-Fu Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou , Jie-Hong Roland Jiang