Unanswered Questions
468 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Relation between quantum entanglement and quantum state complexity
Both quantum entanglement and quantum state complexity are important in quantum information processing. They are usually highly correlated, i.e., roughly a state with a higher entanglement corresponds ...
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Does the Curry-Howard correspondence have a quantum-specific type system?
In Wikipedia we can read that
the Curry–Howard correspondence is a correspondence between formal proof calculi and type systems for models of computation. In particular, it splits into two ...
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What is the Generalized Quantum Stein's Lemma and why is it important?
I'm sensing a lot of buzz about potential re-proofs of the Generalized Quantum Stein's Lemma - a generalization of the quantum counterpart to the classical Stein's Lemma, which is of some importance ...
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Are there separable $\rho$ that cannot be decomposed with less than $\operatorname{rank}(\rho)^2$ pure product states?
In What separable $\rho$ only admit separable pure decompositions with more than $\mathrm{rank}(\rho)$ terms?, examples were given of separable states $\rho$ with separable decompositions requiring ...
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Estimate/determine Bures separability probabilities making use of corresponding Hilbert-Schmidt probabilities
For two-qubit states, represented by a $4\times 4$ density matrix, the generic state is described by 15 real parameters. For ease of calculation, it can help to consider restricted families of states, ...
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Entanglement-assisted hashing bound for asymmetric depolarizing channels
I reading the paper EXIT-Chart Aided Quantum Code Design
Improves the Normalised Throughput
of Realistic Quantum Devices, which proposes the use of QTCs in order to do quantum error correction for ...
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Entanglement transfer of spin-entangled triplet-pair states between flying qubits and stationary qubits
The context: We are in the solid state. After a photon absortion by a system with a singlet ground state, the system undergoes the spin-conserving fission of one spin singlet exciton into two spin ...
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Five qubits can be entangled in how many ways?
It is well-known that there are two ways to entangle three qubits and nine ways to entangle four qubits.
In page 22 of this paper I found that there are infinitely many ways to entangle five qubits, ...
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Enforcing a particular layout mapping in Qiskit
I would like to ask how to set a particular layout during transpiling. I guess that the layout can be set by the initial_layout parameter in the transpiler. However,...
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Query on Reduced Graph States
Reduced graph states are characterized as follows (from page 46 of this paper): Let $A \subseteq V$ be a subset of vertices of a graph $G = (V,E)$ and $B = V\setminus A$ the complement of $A$ in $V$. ...
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How can blackholes be fast information scramblers?
I noticed that there was already a post discussing the fast scrambling property of black holes. But it seems no satisfactory answer was given.
As mentioned by L. Susskind et. al, the fast scrambling ...
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Run VQE for parametrized quantum circuit with ancilla qubits
Let's say we have the following circuit (picture and code shown below), and now the $q_0$ is an ancilla qubit. If the system of interest has only two qubits, Is there a way to use only $q_{1,2}$ as my ...
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What is the motivation for Weyl matrices in quantum information theory?
Quantum Entanglement and Geometry — Andreas Gabriel (2010) — Sec: 2.3.4 ~p. 11
Another basis for $d\times d$-dimensional matrices that has proven to be quite useful in quantum information theory is ...
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Construction of optimal ensemble to show quantum steerability
In Wiseman et al. (2007), in the process of deriving necessary and sufficient conditions for the steerability of some classes of states, the authors show (lemma 1, page 3) how to construct an optimal ...
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Verification of local unitary equivalence between two pure states
This might be a non-trivial and hard problem. I've been thinking about this for days but couldn't find a good answer, so I hope any of you could give me a good answer/intuition for me to move forward.
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