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20202026
most citedDetecting and quantifying entanglement on near-term quantum devices

44 citations · 184 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

quant-ph2026

Virtual quantum neural networks

Benchi Zhao, Xuanqiang Zhao, Yinan Li +2

Quantum neural networks are a prominent model of quantum machine learning. Their training consists in the minimization of a given loss function over a parametrized family of quantu…

quant-ph2026

Causal-Class Hierarchies in Coherence-Constrained Channel Transformation

Lin Zhu, Benchi Zhao, Xuanqiang Zhao +3

Higher-order quantum transformations allow multiple channel uses to be combined through different causal architectures, from parallel and fixed-order sequential networks to general…

quant-ph2026

Benchmarking Agents for Proving Theorems in Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Information

Lei Zhang, Yusheng Zhao, Yimeng Cao +10

Formal verification is becoming increasingly practical for quantum computing, yet the ability of AI agents to construct machine-checkable proofs in this domain remains unmeasured.…

quant-ph2026

Lean-QIT: Towards a Formal Infrastructure for Quantum Information Theory

Chengkai Zhu, Ziao Tang, Guocheng Zhen +6

Quantum information theory (QIT) characterizes the capabilities and fundamental limits of quantum information processing, underpinning quantum communication, computation, and error…

quant-ph2026

Efficient implementation of arbitrary Hermitian-preserving and trace-preserving maps

Weizhou Cai, Zi-Jie Chen, Xuanqiang Zhao +4

Quantum control has been a cornerstone of quantum information science, driving major advances in quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum sensing. Over the years, it h…

quant-ph2025

Quantifying Unextendibility via Virtual State Extension

Hongshun Yao, Jingu Xie, Xuanqiang Zhao +3

Monogamy of entanglement, which limits how entanglement can be shared among multiple parties, is a fundamental feature underpinning the privacy of quantum communication. In this wo…

quant-ph2025

The communication power of indefinite causal order

Xuanqiang Zhao, Benchi Zhao, Cyril Branciard +1

Quantum theory is in principle compatible with scenarios where physical processes occur in an indefinite order, potentially yielding advantages in a broad range of information proc…

quant-ph2025

Power and limitations of distributed quantum state purification

Benchi Zhao, Yu-Ao Chen, Xuanqiang Zhao +3

Quantum state purification protocols, which mitigate noise by converting multiple copies of noisy quantum states into fewer copies with a lower noise level, have applications in qu…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Classical communication cost of a bipartite quantum channel assisted by non-signalling correlations

Chengkai Zhu, Xuanqiang Zhao, Xin Wang

Understanding the classical communication cost of simulating a quantum channel is a fundamental problem in quantum information theory, which becomes even more intriguing when consi…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Shadow Simulation of Quantum Processes

Xuanqiang Zhao, Xin Wang, Giulio Chiribella

We introduce the task of shadow process simulation, where the goal is to simulate the estimation of the expectation values of arbitrary quantum observables at the output of a targe…

quant-ph2023★ 9 cited

Dimension-independent weak value estimation via controlled SWAP operations

Giulio Chiribella, Kyrylo Simonov, Xuanqiang Zhao

Weak values of quantum observables are a powerful tool for investigating quantum phenomena. Some methods for measuring weak values in the laboratory require weak interactions and p…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Retrieving non-linear features from noisy quantum states

Benchi Zhao, Mingrui Jing, Lei Zhang +4

Accurately estimating high-order moments of quantum states is an elementary precondition for many crucial tasks in quantum computing, such as entanglement spectroscopy, entropy est…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Power of quantum measurement in simulating unphysical operations

Xuanqiang Zhao, Lei Zhang, Benchi Zhao +1

The manipulation of quantum states through linear maps beyond quantum operations has many important applications in various areas of quantum information processing. Current methods…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Concentration of Data Encoding in Parameterized Quantum Circuits

Guangxi Li, Ruilin Ye, Xuanqiang Zhao +1

Variational quantum algorithms have been acknowledged as a leading strategy to realize near-term quantum advantages in meaningful tasks, including machine learning and combinatoria…

quant-ph2022★ 14 cited

Quantum Self-Attention Neural Networks for Text Classification

Guangxi Li, Xuanqiang Zhao, Xin Wang

An emerging direction of quantum computing is to establish meaningful quantum applications in various fields of artificial intelligence, including natural language processing (NLP)…

quant-ph2022★ 10 cited

Information recoverability of noisy quantum states

Xuanqiang Zhao, Benchi Zhao, Zihan Xia +1

Extracting classical information from quantum systems is an essential step of many quantum algorithms. However, this information could be corrupted as the systems are prone to quan…

quant-ph2022★ 19 cited

Optimal quantum dataset for learning a unitary transformation

Zhan Yu, Xuanqiang Zhao, Benchi Zhao +1

Unitary transformations formulate the time evolution of quantum states. How to learn a unitary transformation efficiently is a fundamental problem in quantum machine learning. The…

quant-ph2021★ 41 cited

Practical distributed quantum information processing with LOCCNet

Xuanqiang Zhao, Benchi Zhao, Zihe Wang +2

Distributed quantum information processing is essential for building quantum networks and enabling more extensive quantum computations. In this regime, several spatially separated…

quant-ph2020★ 44 cited

Detecting and quantifying entanglement on near-term quantum devices

Kun Wang, Zhixin Song, Xuanqiang Zhao +2

Quantum entanglement is a key resource in quantum technology, and its quantification is a vital task in the current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. This paper combines…

quant-ph2020★ 11 cited

Variational Quantum Algorithms for Trace Distance and Fidelity Estimation

Ranyiliu Chen, Zhixin Song, Xuanqiang Zhao +1

Estimating the difference between quantum data is crucial in quantum computing. However, as typical characterizations of quantum data similarity, the trace distance and quantum fid…

physics.optics2020★ 14 cited

Enhanced spectral resolution for broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy

Faris Sinjab, Kazuki Hashimoto, Xuanqiang Zhao +2

The spectral resolution of broadband Fourier-transform coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy is limited by the maximum optical path length difference that can be scanned within a…