Advances in quantum learning theory with bosonic systems
Abstract
This paper reviews recent advances in quantum learning theory for continuous-variable (CV) systems. Quantum learning theory investigates how to extract classical information from quantum systems as efficiently as possible. CV systems are ubiquitous in nature and in quantum technologies, as they describe bosonic and quantum-optical systems. While quantum learning theory for finite-dimensional systems has been extensively studied, the corresponding theory for CV systems has only recently begun to develop; here we provide a concise review. We focus on the following questions: what is the minimum number of copies (the sample complexity) required to learn a non-Gaussian state, possibly under energy constraints? What is the sample complexity for learning Gaussian states? How does the performance of CV state learning depend on non-Gaussianity? How can one test whether a state is Gaussian or far from the set of Gaussian states? And how can Gaussian processes be learned efficiently? Central to these topics, we also review several bounds on the trace distance between CV states in terms of their covariance matrices, which may be of independent interest. Overall, this work summarises selected developments in tomography of CV systems and highlights a selection of open problems.
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BibTeX
@misc{mele2026advances,
title = {{Advances in quantum learning theory with bosonic systems}},
author = {Francesco Anna Mele},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.08082},
eprint = {2605.08082},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08082},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Advances in quantum learning theory with bosonic systems
AU - Francesco Anna Mele
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.08082
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08082
AB - This paper reviews recent advances in quantum learning theory for continuous-variable (CV) systems. Quantum learning theory investigates how to extract classical information from quantum systems as efficiently as possible. CV systems are ubiquitous in nature and in quantum technologies, as they describe bosonic and quantum-optical systems. While quantum learning theory for finite-dimensional systems has been extensively studied, the corresponding theory for CV systems has only recently begun to develop; here we provide a concise review. We focus on the following questions: what is the minimum number of copies (the sample complexity) required to learn a non-Gaussian state, possibly under energy constraints? What is the sample complexity for learning Gaussian states? How does the performance of CV state learning depend on non-Gaussianity? How can one test whether a state is Gaussian or far from the set of Gaussian states? And how can Gaussian processes be learned efficiently? Central to these topics, we also review several bounds on the trace distance between CV states in terms of their covariance matrices, which may be of independent interest. Overall, this work summarises selected developments in tomography of CV systems and highlights a selection of open problems.
ER -