Pith. sign in

REVIEW 6 cited by

Streaming quantum state purification for general mixed states

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2503.22644 v1 pith:CUWLTCJK submitted 2025-03-28 quant-ph

Streaming quantum state purification for general mixed states

classification quant-ph
keywords noisepurificationquantumrecursivestateswapmixedprincipal
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

Given multiple copies of a mixed quantum state with an unknown, nondegenerate principal eigenspace, quantum state purification is the task of recovering a quantum state that is closer to the principal eigenstate. A streaming protocol relying on recursive swap tests has been proposed and analysed for noisy depolarized states with arbitrary dimension and noise level. Here, we show that the same algorithm applies much more broadly, enabling the purification of arbitrary mixed states with a nondegenerate principal eigenvalue. We demonstrate this through two approaches. In the first approach, we show that, given the largest two eigenvalues, the depolarized noise is the most difficult noise to purify for the recursive swap tests, thus the desirable bounds on performance and cost follow from prior work. In the second approach, we provide a new and direct analysis for the performance of purification using recursive swap tests for the more general noise. We also derive simple lower bounds on the sample complexity, showing that the recursive swap test algorithm attains optimal sample complexity (up to a constant factor) in the low-noise regime.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 6 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Nonasymptotic bounds for quantum purity amplification

    quant-ph 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 8.0

    Derives dimension-independent nonasymptotic bounds for preparing k copies of the dominant eigenvector from noisy quantum states using random Young diagram combinatorics.

  2. An Exponential Sample-Complexity Advantage for Coherent Quantum Inference

    quant-ph 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 8.0

    Coherent quantum inference achieves O(1/ε) sample complexity for d-dimensional quantum purity amplification, exponentially better than the Ω(d/ε) required by any incoherent measurement-mediated protocol.

  3. Quantum Purity Amplification for Arbitrary Eigenstates and Multiple Outputs

    quant-ph 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 8.0

    Solves quantum purity amplification for arbitrary n, m, eigenstates, and dimension d, with asymptotic input scaling O(m/(ε D_min²)) independent of d and non-asymptotic bounds from generalized Young diagrams.

  4. Forward-Assisted Purification: A Spatiotemporal Framework Beyond Conventional Limits

    quant-ph 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Introduces forward-assisted purification via a new spatiotemporal framework that outperforms conventional static purification by up to 50x in copy efficiency and circumvents no-purification theorems for Bell states.

  5. Scaling-optimal purification of noisy qubit unitary channels

    quant-ph 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    A U(2)-covariant parallel protocol based on a novel entanglement-assisted QECC purifies noisy qubit unitaries with O(1/n) noise scaling shown to be asymptotically optimal in the low-noise regime.

  6. Hybrid Quantum Error Correction and Mitigation by Purification

    quant-ph 2026-03 reject novelty 4.0

    A SWAP-test purification protocol that estimates observables of ρ^N from noisy copies without postselection; the claimed mid-circuit quantum error correction is not established because no physical purified state is produced.