Classical shadows over symmetric spaces

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05518v1
• Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 23:34:13 GMT
• Title: Classical shadows over symmetric spaces
• Abstract summary: We study the classical shadow protocols occasioned by sampling uniformly randomly from a compact group.<n>We uncover a unifying theory of such protocols, extending the extent to which the general theory of classical shadows is understood at a mathematical level.
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• Abstract: Efficiently learning expectation values of unknown quantum states via classical shadows has become an important primitive in both theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum computation. Typically, classical shadow protocols involve randomised measurements induced by sampling uniformly randomly from a compact group, a situation which is now quite well understood. In this work we go beyond this standard assumption, studying the classical shadow protocols occasioned by sampling uniformly randomly from the so-called compact symmetric spaces. We uncover a unifying theory of such protocols, extending the extent to which the general theory of classical shadows is understood at a mathematical level. Interestingly, for the estimation of observables sampled from certain distributions we further find that some of these protocols allow for slight improvements in sample-complexity over existing shadow schemes.

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