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Pauli error estimation via Population Recovery

Steven T. Flammia and Ryan O’Donnell,

Quantum 5, 549 (2021).

Motivated by estimation of quantum noise models, we study the problem of learning a Pauli channel, or more generally the Pauli error rates of an arbitrary channel. By employing a novel reduc…

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Quantum Error Mitigation using Symmetry Expansion

Zhenyu Cai,

Quantum 5, 548 (2021).

Even with the recent rapid developments in quantum hardware, noise remains the biggest challenge for the practical applications of any near-term quantum devices. Full quantum error correctio…

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Catalytic transformations with finite-size environments: applications to cooling and thermometry

Ivan Henao and Raam Uzdin,

Quantum 5, 547 (2021).

The laws of thermodynamics are usually formulated under the assumption of infinitely large environments. While this idealization facilitates theoretical treatments, real physical systems are…

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Exact holographic tensor networks for the Motzkin spin chain

Rafael N. Alexander, Glen Evenbly, and Israel Klich,

Quantum 5, 546 (2021).

The study of low-dimensional quantum systems has proven to be a particularly fertile field for discovering novel types of quantum matter. When studied numerically, low-energy states of low-d…

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Kelly Betting with Quantum Payoff: a continuous variable approach

Salvatore Tirone, Maddalena Ghio, Giulia Livieri, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Stefano Marmi,

Quantum 5, 545 (2021).

The main purpose of this study is to introduce a semi-classical model describing betting scenarios in which, at variance with conventional approaches, the payoff of the gambler is encoded in…

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Self-testing of a single quantum device under computational assumptions

Tony Metger and Thomas Vidick,

Quantum 5, 544 (2021).

Self-testing is a method to characterise an arbitrary quantum system based only on its classical input-output correlations, and plays an important role in device-independent quantum informat…

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Quantum algorithms and approximating polynomials for composed functions with shared inputs

Mark Bun, Robin Kothari, and Justin Thaler,

Quantum 5, 543 (2021).

We give new quantum algorithms for evaluating composed functions whose inputs may be shared between bottom-level gates. Let $f$ be an $m$-bit Boolean function and consider an $n$-bit function $F$ ob…

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Instance Independence of Single Layer Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on Mixed-Spin Models at Infinite Size

Jahan Claes and Wim van Dam,

Quantum 5, 542 (2021).

This paper studies the application of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) to spin-glass models with random multi-body couplings in the limit of a large number of spins. We…

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Computable Rényi mutual information: Area laws and correlations

Samuel O. Scalet, Álvaro M. Alhambra, Georgios Styliaris, and J. Ignacio Cirac,

Quantum 5, 541 (2021).

The mutual information is a measure of classical and quantum correlations of great interest in quantum information. It is also relevant in quantum many-body physics, by virtue of satisfying…

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Explicit asymptotic secret key rate of continuous-variable quantum key distribution with an arbitrary modulation

Aurélie Denys, Peter Brown, and Anthony Leverrier,

Quantum 5, 540 (2021).

We establish an analytical lower bound on the asymptotic secret key rate of continuous-variable quantum key distribution with an arbitrary modulation of coherent states. Previously, such bou…

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Fisher Information in Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Applications

Johannes Jakob Meyer,

Quantum 5, 539 (2021).

The recent advent of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, especially near-term quantum computers, has sparked extensive research efforts concerned with their possible applications. At t…

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Simple and maximally robust processes with no classical common-cause or direct-cause explanation

Marcello Nery, Marco Túlio Quintino, Philippe Allard Guérin, Thiago O. Maciel, and Reinaldo O. Vianna,

Quantum 5, 538 (2021).

Guided by the intuition of coherent superposition of causal relations, recent works presented quantum processes without classical common-cause and direct-cause explanation, that is, processe…

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Policies for elementary links in a quantum network

Sumeet Khatri,

Quantum 5, 537 (2021).

Distributing entanglement over long distances is one of the central tasks in quantum networks. An important problem, especially for near-term quantum networks, is to develop optimal entangle…

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On the experiment-friendly formulation of quantum backflow

Maximilien Barbier and Arseni Goussev,

Quantum 5, 536 (2021).

In its standard formulation, quantum backflow is a classically impossible phenomenon in which a free quantum particle in a positive-momentum state exhibits a negative probability current. Re…

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Qubit-efficient entanglement spectroscopy using qubit resets

Justin Yirka and Yiğit Subaşı,

Quantum 5, 535 (2021).

One strategy to fit larger problems on NISQ devices is to exploit a tradeoff between circuit width and circuit depth. Unfortunately, this tradeoff still limits the size of tractable problems…

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Exploiting anticommutation in Hamiltonian simulation

Qi Zhao and Xiao Yuan,

Quantum 5, 534 (2021).

Quantum computing can efficiently simulate Hamiltonian dynamics of many-body quantum physics, a task that is generally intractable with classical computers. The hardness lies at the ubiquito…

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