Unifying Quantum Smoothing Theories with Extended Retrodiction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08447v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:55:25 GMT
• Title: Unifying Quantum Smoothing Theories with Extended Retrodiction
• Authors: Mingxuan Liu, Ge Bai, Valerio Scarani,
• Abstract summary: We develop a comprehensive retrodictive framework for quantum state smoothing.<n>We show that our theory unifies the field and naturally extends it to a broader class of scenarios.<n>Our results establish that quantum state smoothing is fundamentally a retrodictive process, finally bringing it into a closer analogy with classical smoothing.
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• Abstract: Estimating the state of an open quantum system monitored over time requires incorporating information from past measurements (filtering) and, for improved accuracy, also from future measurements (smoothing). While classical smoothing is well-understood within Bayesian framework, its quantum generalization has been challenging, leading to distinct and seemingly incompatible approaches. In this work, we resolve this conceptual divide by developing a comprehensive retrodictive framework for quantum state smoothing. We demonstrate that existing theories are special cases within our formalism, corresponding to different extended prior beliefs. Our theory unifies the field and naturally extends it to a broader class of scenarios. We also explore the behavior of updates when using different priors with the same marginal and prove that the upper and lower bounds on average entropy of smoothed states are achieved by the Petz-Fuchs smoothed state and the CLHS smoothed state, respectively. Our results establish that quantum state smoothing is fundamentally a retrodictive process, finally bringing it into a closer analogy with classical smoothing.

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