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Given a single copy of an n qubit quantum state |psi>, the no-cloning theorem greatly limits the amount of information which can be extracted from it. Moreover, given only a procedure which verifies the state, for example a procedure which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-11 Edward Farhi , David Gosset , Avinatan Hassidim , Andrew Lutomirski , Daniel Nagaj , Peter Shor

Quantum state separation is a probabilistic map that transforms a given set of pure states into another set of more distinguishable ones. Here we investigate such a map acting onto uniparametric families of symmetric linearly dependent or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-09 M. A. Solís-Prosser , A. Delgado , O. Jiménez , L. Neves

The preparation of $n$-qubit quantum states is a cross-cutting subroutine for many quantum algorithms, and the effort to reduce its circuit complexity is a significant challenge. In the literature, the quantum state preparation algorithm by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Giacomo Belli , Michele Amoretti

With the recent claim of a quantum advantage demonstration in photonics by Zhong et al, the question of the computation of lower-order approximations of boson sampling with arbitrary quantum states at arbitrary distinguishability has come…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Jelmer J. Renema

Randomness is an indispensable resource in modern science and information technology. Fortunately, an experimentally simple procedure exists to generate randomness with well-characterized devices: measuring a quantum system in a basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Le Phuc Thinh , Jean-Daniel Bancal , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

$D^2$-sampling is a fundamental component of sampling-based clustering algorithms such as $k$-means++. Given a dataset $V \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ with $N$ points and a center set $C \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $D^2$-sampling refers to picking a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Poojan Shah , Ragesh Jaiswal

Stabilizer states are fundamental families of quantum states with crucial applications such as error correction, quantum computation, and simulation of quantum circuits. In this paper, we study the problem of testing how close or far a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Saeed Mehraban , Mehrdad Tahmasbi

Quantum resources like entanglement and magic are essential for characterizing the complexity of quantum states. However, when the number of copies of quantum states and the computational time are limited by numbers polynomial in the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Wonjun Lee , Hyukjoon Kwon , Gil Young Cho

Certification of quantum systems and their properties has become a field of intensive studies. Here, taking advantage of the one-sided device-independent scenario (known also as quantum steering scenario), we propose a self-testing scheme…

Broad claims about whether adaptivity helps in quantum state tomography can be misleading unless the state family, measurement architecture, and error metric are specified carefully. We study a restricted but physically important regime:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Alireza Goldar , Zhen Qin , Zhihui Zhu , Zhe-Xuan Gong , Michael B. Wakin

The $k$-means algorithm (Lloyd's algorithm) is a widely used method for clustering unlabeled data. A key bottleneck of the $k$-means algorithm is that each iteration requires time linear in the number of data points, which can be expensive…

$k$-Uniform states are fundamental to quantum information and computing, with applications in multipartite entanglement and quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs). Prior work has primarily focused on constructing exact $k$-uniform states or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Kaiyi Guo , Fei Shi , You Zhou , Qi Zhao

We introduce a family of highly symmetric bipartite quantum states in arbitrary dimensions. It consists of all states that are invariant under local phase rotations and local cyclic permutations of the basis. We solve the separability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Jens Siewert , Otfried Gühne , Gael Sentís

Randomness is a defining element of mixing processes in nature and an essential ingredient to many protocols in quantum information. In this work, we investigate how much randomness is required to transform a given quantum state into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 P. Boes , H. Wilming , R. Gallego , J. Eisert

We show that any pseudoentangled state ensemble with a gap of $t$ bits of entropy requires $\Omega(t)$ non-Clifford gates to prepare. This bound is tight up to polylogarithmic factors if linear-time quantum-secure pseudorandom functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Sabee Grewal , Vishnu Iyer , William Kretschmer , Daniel Liang

We introduce a hierarchical algorithm for identifying the largest Pauli coefficients of an unknown $n$-qubit quantum state. The algorithm traverses a prefix-based tree whose nodes represent partial sums of squared Pauli coefficients, always…

In this work, we consider the fundamental task of quantum state certification: given copies of an unknown quantum state $\rho$, test whether it matches some target state $\sigma$ or is $\epsilon$-far from it. For certifying $d$-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Chirag Wadhwa , Sitan Chen

Classical computation of electronic properties in large-scale materials remains challenging. Quantum computation has the potential to offer advantages in memory footprint and computational scaling. However, general and practical quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yiran Bai , Feng Xiong , Xueheng Kuang

Coherent state photon sources are widely used in quantum information processing. In many applications, such as quantum key distribution (QKD), a coherent state is functioned as a mixture of Fock states by assuming its phase is continuously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-15 Zhu Cao , Zhen Zhang , Hoi-Kwong Lo , Xiongfeng Ma

We present a classical algorithm that, for any $D$-dimensional geometrically-local, quantum circuit $C$ of polylogarithmic-depth, and any bit string $x \in {0,1}^n$, can compute the quantity $|<x|C|0^{\otimes n}>|^2$ to within any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 Suchetan Dontha , Shi Jie Samuel Tan , Stephen Smith , Sangheon Choi , Matthew Coudron