2 papers
quant-ph2026
Robust device-independent characterization of sharpness and incompatibility of unsharp instruments
Qian Zhang, Kai-Yu Yuan, Yan-Xin Rong +3
Unsharp measurements are key resources for tasks that balance information gain and disturbance, but certifying them without device assumptions remains a challenge. We propose a ful…
quant-ph2026
Defeating Barren Plateaus with Task-Aligned Symmetry
Ruipeng Xing, Yanan Li, Zhen Shang +3
Barren plateaus -- the exponential vanishing of gradients -- are a fundamental obstacle to training scalable quantum neural networks. Whether they arise in quantum recurrent neural…