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quant-ph2026

Resource Compatibility in Optimal Quantum Symmetry Testing

Yimeng Cao, Ranyiliu Chen, Chengkai Zhu +1

Can a symmetry be tested optimally without using the quantum resource naturally associated with it? For parallel subgroup-versus-Haar testing, we derive a quantitative representati…

quant-ph2026

Entanglement Cost of Optimal Distributed Quantum State Purification

Jiayi Zhao, Chengkai Zhu, Xin Wang +1

We determine the preshared entanglement required for spatially separated parties, restricted to local operations and classical communication, to attain globally optimal probabilist…

quant-ph2026

Private communication via zero-private-capacity quantum channels

Chengkai Zhu, Xin Wang

Private communication over a noisy quantum channel requires reliable transmission to the receiver and secrecy from the environment. Whether two channels with zero private capacity…

quant-ph2026

Deterministic Minimum-Output-Entropy Nonadditivity via Haagerup's Inequality and Near-Free Permutation Representations

Guocheng Zhen, Chengkai Zhu, Ranyiliu Chen +1

We give a deterministic realization of the finite-dimensional quadratic certificate underlying Collins's mixed-unitary proof of minimum-output-entropy nonadditivity. For every fixe…

quant-ph2026

The Min-Rains Relative Entropy Is Not Tight for Exact PPT Entanglement Distillation

Chengkai Zhu, Xin Wang

Exact entanglement distillation converts a noisy bipartite state into a maximally entangled state with zero error. Under completely PPT-preserving operations, the additive min-Rain…

quant-ph2026

A Sharp Local-Question Threshold for GHZ-Equatorial Completeness in Four-Player XOR Games

Ziao Tang, Chengkai Zhu, Ge Bai +2

We determine the smallest number of active questions per player at which a four-player binary exclusive-or (XOR) game of commuting-operator value one need not admit a Greenberger--…

quant-ph2026

Realified tensor networks: quantum circuit simulation on real-valued matrix accelerators

Yusheng Zhao, Xiwei Pan, Enji Xiong +2

Tensor-network contraction simulates quantum circuits, but modern matrix accelerators (NPUs, TPUs) expose only real GEMM pipelines, so the complex networks of quantum simulation mu…

quant-ph2026

Quantum incapacity from observable shadows

Chengkai Zhu, Xin Wang

Quantum communication is ruled out when an eavesdropper can reconstruct the receiver's state. Yet states are operationally specified by measurement statistics, raising a sharper qu…

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

Witness expansion: A unified framework for analytical and measurable mixed-state resource detection

Yifan Tang, Chengkai Zhu, Yuzhen Zhang +6

Quantum information science aims to harness different kinds of quantum resources to accomplish specific information-processing tasks. These resources also play an increasingly impo…

quant-ph2026

Invariant Measures and Weak-Magic-Injection Asymptotics in Random Monitored Quantum Circuits

Guocheng Zhen, Xuanrong Yang, Chengkai Zhu +2

Monitored quantum circuits combine scrambling with measurement-conditioned state updates, while non-Clifford perturbations inject magic into otherwise stabilizer-compatible dynamic…

quant-ph2026

Distilling Qubit Unitary Operations: A No-Go Theorem and Minimal Realization

Jiayi Zhao, Yu-Ao Chen, Guocheng Zhen +3

Quantum gates executed on physical hardware are inevitably degraded by environmental noise. While state purification effectively distills static quantum resources, the dynamic exec…

quant-ph2026

Entanglement cost of bipartite quantum channel discrimination under positive partial transpose operations

Chengkai Zhu, Shuyu He, Gereon Koßmann +1

Quantum channel discrimination is a fundamental task in quantum information processing. In the one-shot regime, discrimination between two candidate channels is characterized by th…

quant-ph2026

Simulation of Adjoints and Petz Recovery Maps for Unknown Quantum Channels

Chengkai Zhu, Ziao Tang, Guocheng Zhen +3

Transformations of quantum channels, such as the transpose, complex conjugate, and adjoint, are fundamental to quantum information theory. Given access to an unknown channel, a cen…

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

Geometric optimization for quantum communication

Chengkai Zhu, Hongyu Mao, Kun Fang +1

Determining the ultimate limits of quantum communication, such as the quantum capacity of a channel and the distillable entanglement of a shared state, remains a central challenge…

quant-ph2025

Optimizing LOCC Protocols on Product Stiefel Manifold

Ze-Tong Li, Cheng-Kai Zhu, Xin Wang

Characterizing the operational limits of Local Operations and Classical Communication (LOCC) is a central problem in distributed quantum information, yet remains computationally in…

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-ph2025

No-Go Theorems for Universal Quantum State Purification via Classically Simulable Operations

Keming He, Chengkai Zhu, Hongshun Yao +3

Quantum state purification, a process that aims to recover a state closer to a system's principal eigenstate from multiple copies of an unknown noisy quantum state, is crucial for…

quant-ph2025

Riemannian Optimization for Holevo Capacity

Chengkai Zhu, Renfeng Peng, Bin Gao +1

Computing the classical capacity of a noisy quantum channel is crucial for understanding the limits of communication over quantum channels. However, its evaluation remains challeng…

quant-ph2024

Optimal Hamiltonian recognition of unknown quantum dynamics

Chengkai Zhu, Shuyu He, Yu-Ao Chen +2

Identifying unknown Hamiltonians from their quantum dynamics is a pivotal challenge in quantum technologies. In this paper, we introduce Hamiltonian recognition, a framework that b…

quant-ph2024

Amortized Stabilizer Rényi Entropy of Quantum Dynamics

Chengkai Zhu, Yu-Ao Chen, Zanqiu Shen +3

Unraveling the secrets of how much nonstabilizerness a quantum dynamic can generate is crucial for harnessing the power of magic states, the essential resources for achieving quant…

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…