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Publications (128)

quant-ph2019

Memory-efficient tracking of complex temporal and symbolic dynamics with quantum simulators

Thomas J. Elliott, Andrew J. P. Garner, Mile Gu

Tracking the behaviour of stochastic systems is a crucial task in the statistical sciences. It has recently been shown that quantum models can faithfully simulate such processes wh…

quant-ph2017

Overarching framework between Gaussian quantum discord and Gaussian quantum illumination

Mark Bradshaw, Syed M. Assad, Jing Yan Haw +3

We cast the problem of illuminating an object in a noisy environment into a communication protocol. A probe is sent into the environment, and the presence or absence of the object…

quant-ph2016

Beating the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt and the Svetlichny games with Optimal States

Hong-Yi Su, Changliang Ren, Jing-Ling Chen +6

We study the relation between the maximal violation of Svetlichny's inequality and the mixedness of quantum states and obtain the optimal state (i.e., maximally nonlocal mixed stat…

quant-ph2025

How Quantum Agents Can Change Which Strategies Are More Complex

Spiros Kechrimparis, Nix Barnett, Mile Gu +1

Whether winning blackjack or navigating busy streets, achieving desired outcomes requires agents to execute adaptive strategies, strategies where actions depend contextually on pas…

quant-ph2025

Simple Construction of Qudit Floquet Codes on a Family of Lattices

Andrew Tanggara, Mile Gu, Kishor Bharti

Dynamical quantum error-correcting codes (QECC) offer wider possibilities in how one can protect logical quantum information from noise and perform fault-tolerant quantum computati…

quant-ph2020

Probe optimization for quantum metrology via closed-loop learning control

Xiaodong Yang, Jayne Thompson, Ze Wu +3

Experimentally achieving the precision that standard quantum metrology schemes promise is always challenging. Recently, additional controls were applied to design feasible quantum…

quant-ph2025

Quantum state-agnostic work extraction (almost) without dissipation

Josep Lumbreras, Ruo Cheng Huang, Yanglin Hu +2

We investigate work extraction protocols designed to transfer the maximum possible energy to a battery using sequential access to copies of an unknown pure qubit state. The cor…

quant-ph2016

Fragile states are better for quantum metrology

Kavan Modi, Lucas C. Céleri, Jayne Thompson +1

In quantum metrology, quantum probe states are capable of estimating unknown physical parameters to precisions beyond classical limits. What qualities do such states possess? Here…

quant-ph2017

Using quantum theory to reduce the complexity of input-output processes

Jayne Thompson, Andrew J. P. Garner, Vlatko Vedral +1

All natural things process and transform information. They receive environmental information as input, and transform it into appropriate output responses. Much of science is dedica…

quant-ph2023

Quantum sensing of phase-covariant optical channels

Ranjith Nair, Mile Gu

We obtain universal (i.e., probe and measurement-independent) performance bounds on ancilla-assisted quantum sensing of multiple parameters of phase-covariant optical channels unde…

quant-ph2003

Unconditional preparation of entanglement between atoms in cascaded optical cavities

Stephen Clark, Amy Peng, Mile Gu +1

We propose a scheme to unconditionally entangle the internal states of atoms trapped in separate high finesse optical cavities. The scheme uses the technique of quantum reservoir e…

quant-ph2019

Witnessing quantum resource conversion within deterministic quantum computation using one pure superconducting qubit

W. Wang, J. Han, B. Yadin +9

Deterministic quantum computation with one qubit (DQC1) is iconic in highlighting that exponential quantum speedup may be achieved with negligible entanglement. Its discovery catal…

quant-ph2018

Operational resource theory of continuous-variable nonclassicality

Benjamin Yadin, Felix C. Binder, Jayne Thompson +3

Genuinely quantum states of a harmonic oscillator may be distinguished from their classical counterparts by the Glauber-Sudarshan P-representation -- a state lacking a positive P-f…

quant-ph2017

Unified framework for quantumness -- coherence, discord, and entanglement

Xiao Yuan, Hongyi Zhou, Mile Gu +1

From an operational perspective, quantumness characterizes the exotic behavior in a physical process which cannot be explained with Newtonian physics. There are several widely used…

quant-ph2024

Causal classification of spatiotemporal quantum correlations

Minjeong Song, Varun Narasimhachar, Bartosz Regula +2

From correlations in measurement outcomes alone, can two otherwise isolated parties establish whether such correlations are atemporal? That is, can they rule out that they have bee…

quant-ph2022

Optimal gain sensing of quantum-limited phase-insensitive amplifiers

Ranjith Nair, Guo Yao Tham, Mile Gu

Phase-insensitive optical amplifiers uniformly amplify each quadrature of an input field and are of both fundamental and technological importance. We find the quantum limit on the…

quant-ph2020

A high fidelity heralded squeezing gate

Jie Zhao, Kui Liu, Jeng Hao +4

A universal squeezing gate capable of squeezing arbitrary input states is essential for continuous-variable quantum computation~\cite{PRA79062318,PRL112120504}. However, in present…

quant-ph2016

The power of one qumode for quantum computation

Nana Liu, Jayne Thompson, Christian Weedbrook +4

Although quantum computers are capable of solving problems like factoring exponentially faster than the best-known classical algorithms, determining the resources responsible for t…

quant-ph2013

Experimental Quantum Computing to Solve Systems of Linear Equations

X. -D. Cai, Christian Weedbrook, Z. -E. Su +7

Solving linear systems of equations is ubiquitous in all areas of science and engineering. With rapidly growing data sets, such a task can be intractable for classical computers, a…

quant-ph2014

Replicating the benefits of closed timelike curves without breaking causality

Xiao Yuan, Syed M. Assad, Jayne Thompson +6

In general relativity, closed timelike curves can break causality with remarkable and unsettling consequences. At the classical level, they induce causal paradoxes disturbing enoug…

quant-ph2022

Quantum adaptive agents with efficient long-term memories

Thomas J. Elliott, Mile Gu, Andrew J. P. Garner +1

Central to the success of adaptive systems is their ability to interpret signals from their environment and respond accordingly -- they act as agents interacting with their surroun…

quant-ph2017

Operational effects of the UNOT gate on classical and quantum correlations

Kuan Zhang, Jiajun Ma, Xiang Zhang +4

The NOT gate that flips a classical bit is ubiquitous in classical information processing. However its quantum analogue, the universal NOT (UNOT) gate that flips a quantum spin in…

quant-ph2025

Energetic advantages for quantum agents in online execution of complex strategies

Jayne Thompson, Paul M. Riechers, Andrew J. P. Garner +2

Agents often execute complex strategies -- adapting their response to each input stimulus depending on past observations and actions. Here, we derive the minimal energetic cost for…

quant-ph2016

Converting Coherence to Quantum Correlations

Jiajun Ma, Benjamin Yadin, Davide Girolami +2

Recent results in quantum information theory characterize quantum coherence in the context of resource theories. Here we study the relation between quantum coherence and quantum di…

quant-ph2016

Thermodynamical cost of some interpretations of quantum theory

Adán Cabello, Mile Gu, Otfried Gühne +2

The interpretation of quantum theory is one of the longest-standing debates in physics. Type I interpretations see quantum probabilities as determined by intrinsic properties of th…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021

Time Symmetries of Memory Determine Thermodynamic Efficiency

Alexander B. Boyd, Paul M. Riechers, Gregory W. Wimsatt +2

While Landauer's Principle sets a lower bound for the work required for a computation, that work is recoverable for efficient computations. However, practical physical computers, s…

quant-ph2020

Fundamental limits of quantum illumination

Ranjith Nair, Mile Gu

In Quantum Illumination (QI), a signal beam initially entangled with an idler beam held at the receiver interrogates a target region bathed in thermal background light. The returne…

quant-ph2015

Delayed Choice Contextuality: A way to rule out Contextual Hidden Variables

Jayne Thompson, Mile Gu, Pawel Kurzynski +2

A PhD student is locked inside a box, imitating a quantum system by mimicking the measurement statistics of any viable observable nominated by external observers. Inside a second b…

quant-ph2024

Quantum limits of covert target detection

Guo Yao Tham, Ranjith Nair, Mile Gu

In covert target detection, Alice attempts to send optical or microwave probes to determine the presence or absence of a weakly-reflecting target embedded in thermal background rad…

quant-ph2024

Virtual quantum resource distillation: General framework and applications

Ryuji Takagi, Xiao Yuan, Bartosz Regula +1

We develop the general framework of virtual resource distillation -- an alternative distillation strategy proposed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050203 (2024)], which extends conventio…

quant-ph2022

Characterizing correlation within multipartite quantum systems via local randomized measurements

Zhenhuan Liu, Pei Zeng, You Zhou +1

Given a quantum system on many qubits split into a few different parties, how many total correlations are there between these parties? Such a quantity, aimed to measure the deviati…

quant-ph2017

The classical-quantum divergence of complexity in modelling spin chains

Whei Yeap Suen, Jayne Thompson, Andrew J. P. Garner +2

The minimal memory required to model a given stochastic process - known as the statistical complexity - is a widely adopted quantifier of structure in complexity science. Here, we…

cond-mat.other2008

More Really is Different

Mile Gu, Christian Weedbrook, Alvaro Perales +1

In 1972, P.W.Anderson suggested that `More is Different', meaning that complex physical systems may exhibit behavior that cannot be understood only in terms of the laws governing t…

quant-ph2025

Gaussian Atemporality: When Gaussian Quantum Correlations Imply Common Cause

Minjeong Song, Jayne Thompson, Matthew S. Winnel +4

Conventionally, covariances do not distinguish between spatial and temporal correlations. The same covariance matrix could equally describe temporal correlations between observatio…

quant-ph2024

Variational learning of integrated quantum photonic circuits

Hui Zhang, Chengran Yang, Wai-Keong Mok +11

Integrated photonic circuits play a crucial role in implementing quantum information processing in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. Variational learning is a promis…

quant-ph2020

Decoupling Cross-Quadrature Correlations using Passive Operations

Syed M. Assad, Mile Gu, Xiaoying Li +1

Quadrature correlations between subsystems of a Gaussian quantum state are fully characterised by its covariance matrix. For example, the covariance matrix determines the amount of…

quant-ph2008

Quantum Control via Geometry: An explicit example

Mile Gu, Andrew Doherty, Michael Nielsen

We explicitly compute the optimal cost for a class of example problems in geometric quantum control. These problems are defined by a Cartan decomposition of into orthogon…

quant-ph2013

Entanglement-free certification of entangling gates

Marcelo de Almeida, Mile Gu, Alessandro Fedrizzi +3

Not all quantum protocols require entanglement to outperform their classical alternatives. The nonclassical correlations that lead to this quantum advantage are conjectured to be c…

quant-ph2024

Strategic Code: A Unified Spatio-Temporal Framework for Quantum Error-Correction

Andrew Tanggara, Mile Gu, Kishor Bharti

Quantum error-correcting code (QECC) is the central ingredient in fault-tolerant quantum information processing. An emerging paradigm of dynamical QECC shows that one can robustly…

quant-ph2018

Optimal stochastic modelling with unitary quantum dynamics

Qing Liu, Thomas. J. Elliott, Felix. C. Binder +2

Identifying and extracting the past information relevant to the future behaviour of stochastic processes is a central task in the quantitative sciences. Quantum models offer a prom…

quant-ph2009

Quantum Computing with Continuous-Variable Clusters

Mile Gu, Christian Weedbrook, Nicolas C. Menicucci +2

Continuous-variable cluster states offer a potentially promising method of implementing a quantum computer. This paper extends and further refines theoretical foundations and proto…

quant-ph2023

Quantum Uncertainty Principles for Measurements with Interventions

Yunlong Xiao, Yuxiang Yang, Ximing Wang +2

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle implies fundamental constraints on what properties of a quantum system can we simultaneously learn. However, it typically assumes that we probe t…

quant-ph2018

Single-shot quantum memory advantage in the simulation of stochastic processes

Farzad Ghafari, Nora Tischler, Jayne Thompson +7

Stochastic processes underlie a vast range of natural and social phenomena. Some processes such as atomic decay feature intrinsic randomness, whereas other complex processes, e.g.…

quant-ph2021

Optimal probes for continuous variable quantum illumination

Mark Bradshaw, Lorcan O. Conlon, Spyros Tserkis +3

Quantum illumination is the task of determining the presence of an object in a noisy environment. We determine the optimal continuous variable states for quantum illumination in th…

quant-ph2023

Engines for predictive work extraction from memoryful quantum stochastic processes

Ruo Cheng Huang, Paul M. Riechers, Mile Gu +1

Quantum information-processing techniques enable work extraction from a system's inherently quantum features, in addition to the classical free energy it contains. Meanwhile, the s…

quant-ph2018

Optimal classical simulation of state-independent quantum contextuality

Adán Cabello, Mile Gu, Otfried Gühne +1

Simulating quantum contextuality with classical systems requires memory. A fundamental yet open question is what is the minimum memory needed and, therefore, the precise sense in w…

quant-ph2007

Coherent State Distinguishability in Continuous Variable Quantum Cryptography

Christian Weedbrook, Mile Gu, Andrew M. Lance +3

We use the probability of error as a measure of distinguishability between two pure and two mixed symmetric coherent states in the context of continuous variable quantum cryptograp…

quant-ph2017

Discord, quantum knowledge and private communications

Mile Gu, Stefano Pirandola

In this brief review, we discuss the role that quantum correlations, as quantified by quantum discord, play in two interesting settings. The first one is discerning which unitaries…

quant-ph2020

Extreme dimensionality reduction with quantum modelling

Thomas J. Elliott, Chengran Yang, Felix C. Binder +3

Effective and efficient forecasting relies on identification of the relevant information contained in past observations -- the predictive features -- and isolating it from the rest…

quant-ph2014

Towards Quantifying Complexity with Quantum Mechanics

Ryan Tan, Daniel R. Terno, Jayne Thompson +2

While we have intuitive notions of structure and complexity, the formalization of this intuition is non-trivial. The statistical complexity is a popular candidate. It is based on t…

quant-ph2023

Universal Sampling Lower Bounds for Quantum Error Mitigation

Ryuji Takagi, Hiroyasu Tajima, Mile Gu

Numerous quantum error-mitigation protocols have been proposed, motivated by the critical need to suppress noise effects on intermediate-scale quantum devices. Yet, their general p…

quant-ph2022

Surveying structural complexity in quantum many-body systems

Whei Yeap Suen, Thomas J. Elliott, Jayne Thompson +4

Quantum many-body systems exhibit a rich and diverse range of exotic behaviours, owing to their underlying non-classical structure. These systems present a deep structure beyond th…

quant-ph2021

Enhancing quantum models of stochastic processes with error mitigation

Matthew Ho, Ryuji Takagi, Mile Gu

Error mitigation has been one of the recently sought after methods to reduce the effects of noise when computation is performed on a noisy near-term quantum computer. Interest in s…

quant-ph2017

Geometry of quantum correlations in space-time

Zhikuan Zhao, Robert Pisarczyk, Jayne Thompson +3

The traditional formalism of non-relativistic quantum theory allows the state of a quantum system to extend across space, but only restricts it to a single instant in time, leading…

quant-ph2016

Experimental quantum processing enhancement in modelling stochastic processes

Matthew S. Palsson, Mile Gu, Joseph Ho +2

Computer simulation of observable phenomena is an indispensable tool for engineering new technology, understanding the natural world, and studying human society. Yet the most inter…

quant-ph2026

Quantum enhanced rare event discovery and sampling

Naixu Guo, Po-Wei Huang, Qisheng Wang +4

Financial crashes, cascading failures in infrastructure, and critical errors in AI systems are frequently triggered by events that occur with extremely small probability. Efficient…

quant-ph2026

Theory of Quantum Imaginary-Time Mpemba Effect

Yumeng Zeng, Jeongrak Son, Mile Gu +1

Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a fundamental framework for preparing ground and thermal states, yet its computational cost scales significantly with the evolution durat…

quant-ph2019

Modular Quantum Computation in a Trapped Ion System

Kuan Zhang, Jayne Thompson, Xiang Zhang +7

Modern computation relies crucially on modular architectures, breaking a complex algorithm into self-contained subroutines. A client can then call upon a remote server to implement…

quant-ph2015

Power of One Bit of Quantum Information in Quantum Metrology

Hugo Cable, Mile Gu, Kavan Modi

We construct a model of quantum metrology inspired by the computational model known as deterministic quantum computation with one quantum bit (DQC1). Using only one pure qubit toge…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Circuit Fragments and Link Products in Continuous Variables

Amalina Lai, Graeme D. Berk, Minjeong Song +1

Quantum circuits are often drawn as complete processes, with fixed inputs and outputs. In many quantum-information tasks, however, the natural object is only a fragment of such a c…

quant-ph2012

Quantum Passwords

Mile Gu, Christian Weedbrook

A quantum password is a quantum mechanical analogue of the classical password. Our proposal is completely quantum mechanical in nature, i.e. at no point is information stored and m…

quant-ph2023

Implementing quantum dimensionality reduction for non-Markovian stochastic simulation

Kang-Da Wu, Chengran Yang, Ren-Dong He +5

Complex systems are embedded in our everyday experience. Stochastic modelling enables us to understand and predict the behaviour of such systems, cementing its utility across the q…

quant-ph2026

Learning Quantum-Samplers for Stochastic Processes with Quantum Sequence Models

Ximing Wang, Chengran Yang, Chidambaram Aditya Somasundaram +2

Quantum circuits that generate coherent superpositions of stochastic processes are key to many downstream quantum-accelerated tasks, such as risk analysis, importance sampling, and…

quant-ph2020

Maximum entanglement of formation for a two-mode Gaussian state over passive operations

Spyros Tserkis, Jayne Thompson, Austin P. Lund +4

We quantify the maximum amount of entanglement of formation (EoF) that can be achieved by continuous-variable states under passive operations, which we refer to as EoF-potential. F…

quant-ph2025

Spatial Incompatibility Witnesses for Quantum Temporal Correlations

Xiangjing Liu, Harshit Verma, Yunlong Xiao +2

We introduce a witness-based framework for certifying quantum temporal correlations via the pseudo-density matrix (PDM) formalism, which is a spatiotemporal generalization of the d…

quant-ph2026

Ideal stochastic process modeling with post-quantum quasiprobabilistic theories

Kelvin Onggadinata, Andrew Tanggara, Mile Gu +1

In stochastic modeling, the excess entropy -- the mutual information shared between a process's past and future -- represents the fundamental lower bound of the memory needed to si…

quant-ph2019

Quantifying memory capacity as a quantum thermodynamic resource

Varun Narasimhachar, Jayne Thompson, Jiajun Ma +2

The information-carrying capacity of a memory is known to be a thermodynamic resource facilitating the conversion of heat to work. Szilard's engine explicates this connection throu…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021

Initial-State Dependence of Thermodynamic Dissipation for any Quantum Process

Paul M. Riechers, Mile Gu

New exact results about the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open quantum systems at arbitrary timescales are obtained by considering all possible variations of initial conditions…

quant-ph2024

The relative entropy of coherence quantifies performance in Bayesian metrology

Ruvi Lecamwasam, Syed M Assad, Joseph J Hope +3

The ability of quantum states to be in superposition is one of the key features that sets them apart from the classical world. This `coherence' is rigorously quantified by resource…

quant-ph2022

Fundamental limits of quantum error mitigation

Ryuji Takagi, Suguru Endo, Shintaro Minagawa +1

The inevitable accumulation of errors in near-future quantum devices represents a key obstacle in delivering practical quantum advantages, motivating the development of various qua…

quant-ph2019

One-shot entanglement distillation beyond local operations and classical communication

Bartosz Regula, Kun Fang, Xin Wang +1

We study the task of entanglement distillation in the one-shot setting under different classes of quantum operations which extend the set of local operations and classical communic…

quant-ph2020

Optimal circular dichroism sensing with quantum light: Multi-parameter estimation approach

Christina Ioannou, Ranjith Nair, Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton +3

The measurement of circular dichroism (CD) has widely been exploited to distinguish the different enantiomers of chiral structures. It has been applied to natural materials (e.g. m…

quant-ph2006

Universal Quantum Computation with Continuous-Variable Cluster States

Nicolas C. Menicucci, Peter van Loock, Mile Gu +3

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-li…

quant-ph2020

Robust inference of memory structure for efficient quantum modelling of stochastic processes

Matthew Ho, Mile Gu, Thomas J. Elliott

A growing body of work has established the modelling of stochastic processes as a promising area of application for quantum techologies; it has been shown that quantum models are a…

quant-ph2006

Quantum Computation as Geometry

Michael A. Nielsen, Mark R. Dowling, Mile Gu +1

Quantum computers hold great promise, but it remains a challenge to find efficient quantum circuits that solve interesting computational problems. We show that finding optimal quan…

quant-ph2017

Experimental cyclic inter-conversion between Coherence and Quantum Correlations

Kang-Da Wu, Zhibo Hou, Yuan-Yuan Zhao +7

Quantum resource theories seek to quantify sources of non-classicality that bestow quantum technologies their operational advantage. Chief among these are studies of quantum correl…

quant-ph2026

Photonic-Implemented Efficient Deep Quantum Neural Network via Virtual-Driven Hilbert Space Expansion

Haoran Ma, Huihui Zhu, Zichao Zhao +10

The growing computational demands of classical neural networks have intensified the search for energy-efficient and powerful computational alternatives. Quantum neural networks (QN…

quant-ph2026

Variational Quantum Dimension Reduction for Recurrent Quantum Models

Chufan Lyu, Ximing Wang, Mile Gu +2

Recurrent quantum models (RQMs) realize sequential quantum processes through repeated application of a unitary operation on a memory system coupled with a series of output register…

quant-ph2023

Non-destructively probing the thermodynamics of quantum systems with qumodes

Thomas J. Elliott, Mile Gu, Jayne Thompson +1

Quantum systems are by their very nature fragile. The fundamental backaction on a state due to quantum measurement notwithstanding, there is also in practice often a destruction of…

quant-ph2024

Embedding memory-efficient stochastic simulators as quantum trajectories

Thomas J. Elliott, Mile Gu

By exploiting the complexity intrinsic to quantum dynamics, quantum technologies promise a whole host of computational advantages. One such advantage lies in the field of stochasti…

quant-ph2022

Error-tolerant witnessing of divergences in classical and quantum statistical complexity

Farzad Ghafari, Mile Gu, Joseph Ho +4

How much information do we need about a process' past to faithfully simulate its future? The statistical complexity is a prominent quantifier of structure for stochastic processes.…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012

Encoding Universal Computation in the Ground States of Ising Lattices

Mile Gu, Alvaro Perales

We characterize the set of ground states that can be synthesized by classical 2-body Ising Hamiltonians. We then construct simple Ising planar blocks that simulates efficiently a u…

quant-ph2025

QuLTSF: Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with Quantum Machine Learning

Hari Hara Suthan Chittoor, Paul Robert Griffin, Ariel Neufeld +2

Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) involves predicting a large number of future values of a time series based on the past values. This is an essential task in a wide range of…

quant-ph2024

Virtual quantum resource distillation

Xiao Yuan, Bartosz Regula, Ryuji Takagi +1

Distillation, or purification, is central to the practical use of quantum resources in noisy settings often encountered in quantum communication and computation. Conventionally, di…

quant-ph2016

How Discord underlies the Noise Resilience of Quantum Illumination

Christian Weedbrook, Stefano Pirandola, Jayne Thompson +2

The benefits of entanglement can outlast entanglement itself. In quantum illumination, entanglement is employed to better detect reflecting objects in environments so noisy that al…

quant-ph2021

Operational applications of the diamond norm and related measures in quantifying the non-physicality of quantum maps

Bartosz Regula, Ryuji Takagi, Mile Gu

Although quantum channels underlie the dynamics of quantum states, maps which are not physical channels -- that is, not completely positive -- can often be encountered in settings…

quant-ph2012

Quantum phases with differing computational power

Jian Cui, Mile Gu, Leong Chuan Kwek +3

The observation that concepts from quantum information has generated many alternative indicators of quantum phase transitions hints that quantum phase transitions possess operation…

quant-ph2025

Near-Term Pseudorandom and Pseudoresource Quantum States

Andrew Tanggara, Mile Gu, Kishor Bharti

A pseudorandom quantum state (PRS) is an ensemble of quantum states indistinguishable from Haar-random states to observers with efficient quantum computers. It allows one to substi…

quant-ph2024

Variational Quantum Circuit Decoupling

Ximing Wang, Chengran Yang, Mile Gu

Decoupling systems into independently evolving components has a long history of simplifying seemingly complex systems. They enable a better understanding of the underlying dynamics…

quant-ph2018

A practical, unitary simulator for non-Markovian complex processes

Felix C. Binder, Jayne Thompson, Mile Gu

Stochastic processes are as ubiquitous throughout the quantitative sciences as they are notorious for being difficult to simulate and predict. In this letter we propose a unitary q…

quant-ph2026

Reinforcement learning for quantum processes with memory

Josep Lumbreras, Ruo Cheng Huang, Yanglin Hu +2

In reinforcement learning, an agent interacts sequentially with an environment to maximize a reward, receiving only partial, probabilistic feedback. This creates a fundamental expl…

physics.data-an2011

Information erasure lurking behind measures of complexity

Karoline Wiesner, Mile Gu, Elisabeth Rieper +1

Complex systems are found in most branches of science. It is still argued how to best quantify their complexity and to what end. One prominent measure of complexity (the statistica…

quant-ph2008

Gate complexity using Dynamic Programming

Srinivas Sridharan, Mile Gu, Matthew R. James

The relationship between efficient quantum gate synthesis and control theory has been a topic of interest in the quantum control literature. Motivated by this work, we describe in…

quant-ph2021

The impossibility of Landauer's bound for almost every quantum state

Paul M. Riechers, Mile Gu

The thermodynamic cost of resetting an arbitrary initial state to a particular desired state is lower bounded by Landauer's bound. However, here we demonstrate that this lower boun…

quant-ph2017

Thermodynamics of complexity and pattern manipulation

Andrew J. P. Garner, Jayne Thompson, Vlatko Vedral +1

Many organisms capitalize on their ability to predict the environment to maximize available free energy, and reinvest this energy to create new complex structures. This functionali…

quant-ph2024

Dimension reduction in quantum sampling of stochastic processes

Chengran Yang, Marta Florido-Llin`as, Mile Gu +1

Quantum technologies offer a promising route to the efficient sampling and analysis of stochastic processes, with potential applications across the sciences. Such quantum advantage…

quant-ph2026

Classically Spoofing System Linear Cross Entropy Score Benchmarking

Andrew Tanggara, Mile Gu, Kishor Bharti

In recent years, several experimental groups have claimed demonstrations of ``quantum supremacy'' or computational quantum advantage. A notable first claim by Google Quantum AI rev…

quant-ph2021

Thermodynamic resources in continuous-variable quantum systems

Varun Narasimhachar, Syed Assad, Felix C. Binder +3

Thermodynamic resources, beyond their well-known usefulness in work extraction and other thermodynamic tasks, are often important also in tasks that are not evidently thermodynamic…

quant-ph2024

Quantum-inspired identification of complex cellular automata

Matthew Ho, Andri Pradana, Thomas J. Elliott +2

Elementary cellular automata (ECA) present iconic examples of complex systems. Though described only by one-dimensional strings of binary cells evolving according to nearest-neighb…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Thermodynamic Overfitting and Generalization: Energetic Limits on Predictive Complexity

Alexander B. Boyd, James P. Crutchfield, Mile Gu +1

Efficiently harvesting thermodynamic resources requires a precise understanding of their structure. This becomes explicit through the lens of information engines -- thermodynamic e…