activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

quant-ph2026

Distinguishability of locally diagonal orthogonally invariant quantum states

Nathaniel Johnston, Vincent Russo

We study the distinguishability of quantum states under local operations with classical communication (LOCC), separable, and positive-partial-transpose (PPT) measurements, focusing…

quant-ph2025

The complexity of perfect quantum state classification

Nathaniel Johnston, Benjamin Lovitz, Vincent Russo +1

The problem of quantum state classification asks how accurately one can identify an unknown quantum state that is promised to be drawn from a known set of pure states. In this work…

math.OC2025

A hierarchy of eigencomputations for polynomial optimization on the sphere

Benjamin Lovitz, Nathaniel Johnston

We introduce a convergent hierarchy of lower bounds on the minimum value of a real form over the unit sphere. The main practical advantage of our hierarchy over the real sum-of-squ…

quant-ph2025

Tight bounds for antidistinguishability and circulant sets of pure quantum states

Nathaniel Johnston, Vincent Russo, Jamie Sikora

A set of pure quantum states is said to be antidistinguishable if upon sampling one at random, there exists a measurement to perfectly determine some state that was not sampled. We…

quant-ph2024

X-arability of mixed quantum states

Harm Derksen, Nathaniel Johnston, Benjamin Lovitz

The problem of determining when entanglement is present in a quantum system is one of the most active areas of research in quantum physics. Depending on the setting at hand, differ…