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quant-ph2026

From Barren Plateaus to SPSA Optimization in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers

Zhen Qin

The barren plateau (BP) phenomenon poses a fundamental challenge to the trainability of variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs) by causing exponentially vanishing gradients as the…

quant-ph2026

A Unified Framework for Sample Complexity of Structured Quantum State Tomography under Noisy Observations

Zhen Qin

Quantum state tomography (QST) has attracted considerable attention due to its fundamental role in quantum information processing. In this paper, we develop a unified theoretical f…

quant-ph2026

Structured Factorization Approaches for Quantum State Tomography

Zhen Qin, Joseph M. Lukens, Brian T. Kirby +1

Since the complexity of quantum state tomography (QST) scales exponentially with system size, exploiting priors such as low-rankness, tensor-network structures, and neural-network…

quant-ph2025

Quantum State Tomography for Tensor Networks in Two Dimensions

Zhen Qin, Zhihui Zhu

Recent work has shown that for one-dimensional quantum states that can be effectively approximated by matrix product operators (MPOs), a polynomial number of copies of the state su…

quant-ph2025

Enhancing Quantum State Reconstruction with Structured Classical Shadows

Zhen Qin, Joseph M. Lukens, Brian T. Kirby +1

Quantum state tomography (QST) remains the prevailing method for benchmarking and verifying quantum devices; however, its application to large quantum systems is rendered impractic…

quant-ph2024

Optimal Allocation of Pauli Measurements for Low-rank Quantum State Tomography

Zhen Qin, Casey Jameson, Zhexuan Gong +2

The process of reconstructing quantum states from experimental measurements, accomplished through quantum state tomography (QST), plays a crucial role in verifying and benchmarking…