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Quantum state tomography is the problem of estimating a given quantum state. Usually, it is required to run the quantum experiment - state preparation, state evolution, measurement - several times to be able to estimate the output quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Shibdas Roy , Filippo Caruso , Srushti Patil , Anumita Mukhopadhyay

We describe an algorithm for quantum state tomography that converges in polynomial time to an estimate, together with a rigorous error bound on the fidelity between the estimate and the true state. The result suggests that state tomography…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Steven T. Flammia , David Gross , Stephen D. Bartlett , Rolando Somma

Existing quantum state tomography methods are limited in scalability due to their high computation and memory demands, making them impractical for recovery of large quantum states. In this work, we address these limitations by reformulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Kuchibhotla Aditi , Stephen Becker

Resource-efficient quantum state tomography is one of the key ingredients of future quantum technologies. In this work, we propose a new tomography protocol combining standard quantum state reconstruction methods with an attention-based…

Multimode Gaussian states are a versatile resource for quantum information technologies and have been realized across a wide range of physical platforms. Recent progress in the large-scale generation of such states provides a key ingredient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Chan Roh , Geunhee Gwak , Young-Do Yoon , Young-Sik Ra

In order to leverage the full power of quantum noise squeezing with unavoidable decoherence, a complete understanding of the degradation in the purity of squeezed light is demanded. By implementing machine learning architecture with a…

We propose an efficient quantum state tomography method inspired by compressed sensing and threshold quantum state tomography that can drastically reduce the number of measurement settings to reconstruct the density matrix of an $N$-qudit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Giovanni Garberoglio , Maurizio Dapor , Diego Maragnano , Marco Liscidini , Daniele Binosi

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 quantum state's entanglement across a bipartite cut can be quantified with entanglement entropy or, more generally, Schmidt norms. Using only Schmidt decompositions, we present a simple iterative algorithm to maximize Schmidt norms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 Robin Reuvers

Linear optical systems acting on photon number states produce many interesting evolutions, but cannot give all the allowed quantum operations on the input state. Using Toponogov's theorem from differential geometry, we propose an iterative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin , Vicent Gimeno , Julio José Moyano-Fernández

We present an efficient algorithm for twirling a multi-qudit quantum state. The algorithm can be used for approximating the twirling operation in an ensemble of physical systems in which the systems cannot be individually accessed. It can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geza Toth , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll

Recently quantum tomography has been proposed as a fundamental tool for prototyping a few qubit quantum device. It allows the complete reconstruction of the state produced from a given input into the device. From this reconstructed density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. T. Thew , K. Nemoto , A. G. White , W. J. Munro

We introduce a fast and accurate heuristic for adaptive tomography that addresses many of the limitations of prior methods. Previous approaches were either too computationally intensive or tailored to handle special cases such as single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Christopher Granade , Christopher Ferrie , Steven T. Flammia

Optimal quantum cloning is the process of making one or more copies of an arbitrary unknown input quantum state with the highest possible fidelity. All reported demonstrations of quantum cloning have so far been limited to copying…

We present a probabilistic quantum algorithm for preparing mixed states which, in expectation, are proportional to the solutions of Lyapunov equations -- linear matrix equations ubiquitous in the analysis of classical and quantum dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Marcello Benedetti , Ansis Rosmanis , Matthias Rosenkranz

Tomograms are obtained as probability distributions and are used to reconstruct a quantum state from experimentally measured values. We study the evolution of tomograms for different quantum systems, both finite and infinite dimensional. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Kishore Thapliyal , Subhashish Banerjee , Anirban Pathak

An optical waveplate rotating light polarization can be modeled as a single-qubit unitary operator, whose action can be experimentally determined via quantum process tomography. Standard approaches to tomographic problems rely on the…

Based on recently introduced efficient quantum state tomography schemes, we propose a scalable method for the tomography of unitary processes and the reconstruction of one-dimensional local Hamiltonians. As opposed to the exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 M. Holzäpfel , T. Baumgratz , M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

We show that the method of maximum likelihood (MML) provides us with an efficient scheme for reconstruction of quantum channels from incomplete measurement data. By construction this scheme always results in estimations of channels that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mario Ziman , Martin Plesch , Vladimir Buzek , Peter Stelmachovic

We provide optimized recursion relations for homodyne tomography. We improve previous methods by mitigating the divergences intrinsic in the calculation of the pattern functions used previously, and detail how to implement the data analysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Nicola Mosco , Lorenzo Maccone