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Quantum has published 131 Papers in 3 Volumes, as well as 13 Views in Quantum Views.

News

Two years of publications!

Happy anniversary, Quantum community! It feels like yesterday, but it’s been two years since Quantum published the first batch of ten peer-reviewed articles. Since then, Quantum has received over 400 …

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Robustness of Magic and Symmetries of the Stabiliser Polytope

Markus Heinrich and David Gross,

Quantum 3, 132 (2019).

We give a new algorithm for computing the $\textit{robustness of magic}$ – a measure of the utility of quantum states as a computational resource. Our work is motivated by the $\textit{magic state model}$…

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Analysing correlated noise on the surface code using adaptive decoding algorithms

Naomi H. Nickerson and Benjamin J. Brown,

Quantum 3, 131 (2019).

Laboratory hardware is rapidly progressing towards a state where quantum error-correcting codes can be realised. As such, we must learn how to deal with the complex nature of the noise that…

Perspective

Quantum signatures in fluctuation theorems

Martí Perarnau-Llobet,

Quantum Views 3, 13 (2019).

Fluctuation theorems play a central role in our understanding of the thermodynamics of small systems (see e.g. the review [1]). In particular, Crooks' fluctuation theorem relates the probabi…

Perspective

Measuring correlations in quantum systems

Daniel Manzano,

Quantum Views 3, 12 (2019).

Correlations are determinant to many physical processes. Many different topics such as phase transitions, magnetism, and Bell's inequalities can be analysed by the use of correlations. The c…

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Overview and Comparison of Gate Level Quantum Software Platforms

Ryan LaRose,

Quantum 3, 130 (2019).

Quantum computers are available to use over the cloud, but the recent explosion of quantum software platforms can be overwhelming for those deciding on which to use. In this paper, we provid…

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Strawberry Fields: A Software Platform for Photonic Quantum Computing

Nathan Killoran, Josh Izaac, Nicolás Quesada, Ville Bergholm, Matthew Amy, and Christian Weedbrook,

Quantum 3, 129 (2019).

We introduce Strawberry Fields, an open-source quantum programming architecture for light-based quantum computers, and detail its key features. Built in Python, Strawberry Fields is a full-s…

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A Game of Surface Codes: Large-Scale Quantum Computing with Lattice Surgery

Daniel Litinski,

Quantum 3, 128 (2019).

Given a quantum gate circuit, how does one execute it in a fault-tolerant architecture with as little overhead as possible? In this paper, we discuss strategies for surface-code quantum comp…

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Work Statistics, Loschmidt Echo and Information Scrambling in Chaotic Quantum Systems

Aurélia Chenu, Javier Molina-Vilaplana, and Adolfo del Campo,

Quantum 3, 127 (2019).

Characterizing the work statistics of driven complex quantum systems is generally challenging because of the exponential growth with the system size of the number of transitions involved bet…

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Minimax quantum state estimation under Bregman divergence

Maria Quadeer, Marco Tomamichel, and Christopher Ferrie,

Quantum 3, 126 (2019).

We investigate minimax estimators for quantum state tomography under general Bregman divergences. First, generalizing the work of Koyama et al. [Entropy 19, 618 (2017)] for relative entropy,…

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Optomechanical state reconstruction and nonclassicality verification beyond the resolved-sideband regime

Farid Shahandeh and Martin Ringbauer,

Quantum 3, 125 (2019).

Quantum optomechanics uses optical means to generate and manipulate quantum states of motion of mechanical resonators. This provides an intriguing platform for the study of fundamental physi…

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Coherent fluctuation relations: from the abstract to the concrete

Zoë Holmes, Sebastian Weidt, David Jennings, Janet Anders, and Florian Mintert,

Quantum 3, 124 (2019).

Recent studies using the quantum information theoretic approach to thermodynamics show that the presence of coherence in quantum systems generates corrections to classical fluctuation theore…

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Optimized Entanglement Purification

Stefan Krastanov, Victor V. Albert, and Liang Jiang,

Quantum 3, 123 (2019).

We investigate novel protocols for entanglement purification of qubit Bell pairs. Employing genetic algorithms for the design of the purification circuit, we obtain shorter circuits achievin…

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An efficient high dimensional quantum Schur transform

Hari Krovi,

Quantum 3, 122 (2019).

The Schur transform is a unitary operator that block diagonalizes the action of the symmetric and unitary groups on an $n$ fold tensor product $V^{\otimes n}$ of a vector space $V$ of dimens…

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Thermodynamics as a Consequence of Information Conservation

Manabendra Nath Bera, Arnau Riera, Maciej Lewenstein, Zahra Baghali Khanian, and Andreas Winter,

Quantum 3, 121 (2019).

Thermodynamics and information have intricate interrelations. Often thermodynamics is considered to be the logical premise to justify that $\textit{information is physical}$ – through Landau…

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Fault-tolerant gates via homological product codes

Tomas Jochym-O’Connor,

Quantum 3, 120 (2019).

A method for the implementation of a universal set of fault-tolerant logical gates is presented using homological product codes. In particular, it is shown that one can fault-tolerantly map…