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5 papers

quant-ph2026

Classical shadows with arbitrary group representations

Maxwell West, Frederic Sauvage, Aniruddha Sen +6

Classical shadows (CS) has recently emerged as an important framework to efficiently predict properties of an unknown quantum state. A common strategy in CS protocols is to paramet…

quant-ph2026

Parameter-optimal unitary synthesis with flag decompositions

Korbinian Kottmann, David Wierichs, Guillermo Alonso-Linaje +1

We introduce the flag decomposition as a central tool for unitary synthesis. It lets us carve out a diagonal unitary with degrees of freedom in such a way that the remaining…

quant-ph2025

Unitary synthesis with optimal brick wall circuits

David Wierichs, Korbinian Kottmann, Nathan Killoran

We present quantum circuits with a brick wall structure using the optimal number of parameters and two-qubit gates to parametrize , and provide evidence that these circuit…

quant-ph2025

Backpropagation scaling in parameterised quantum circuits

Joseph Bowles, David Wierichs, Chae-Yeun Park

The discovery of the backpropagation algorithm ranks among one of the most important moments in the history of machine learning, and has made possible the training of large-scale n…

quant-ph2025

Recursive Cartan decompositions for unitary synthesis

David Wierichs, Maxwell West, Roy T. Forestano +2

Recursive Cartan decompositions (CDs) provide a way to exactly factorize quantum circuits into smaller components, making them a central tool for unitary synthesis. Here we present…