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Afham

@afhamash.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore. Postdoc-ing instead of Age of Empires-ing. Malayali.

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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FPLS has fast classical postprocessing, is rank-preserving, and converges at 1/N. The rank-preservation allows one to return channel estimates with low rank, where that is desirable. This, and other properties, make FPLS particularly good at QPT of low Choi rank channels.
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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New preprint with @sayantansen.bsky.social and @marcotomamichel.bsky.social!! In Fast and Sure-ious QPT, we describe a simple and rigorous way to lift any QST algorithm (in fidelity) to a QPT algorithm, while allowing for all guarantees to transfer! scirate.com/arxiv/2609.3...
Abstract of the preprint "Fast and Sure-ious Quantum Process Tomography"
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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New preprint out! Paradoxical: both my first 'solo-authored' and first LLM-assisted paper. Projected Riemannian Gradient Descent for the Bures-Wasserstein Barycenter: Dimension-Independent Linear Convergence at Unit Step Size scirate.com/arxiv/2609.0... Also an ML paper with applications to QI?
Meme describing the algorithm
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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
As applications, we show that 1. Pretty good measurement is the fidelity/Bures projection of the ensemble to POVMs, providing new interpretation for PGM. 2. Petz map is the projection of a CP map constructed (rather naturally) from the channel-state pair to the set of reverse channels.
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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
In the 'fixed-marginal' setting, is projection is given by a simple closed-form. If the marginal is Identity, then this recovers a standard 'partial-normalization' operation used widely in the literature. We show that this partial normalization is not just easy to write down, but optimal!
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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We use the condition for the saturation of DPI for fidelity, along with properties of the matrix geometric mean, to derive a closed-form for certain projection problems. For 'nice' problems, the projection is given by the 'Gamma map'.
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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The feasible sets are the PSD preimage of a channel and an output matrix. Examples include sets of 1. Bi- (& multi-)partite states with a given marginal on 1 of the spaces. Eg: Choi matrices of CPTP maps. 2. PSD decomposition of a given matrix. Eg: Set of all POVMs.
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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New preprint out with @marcotomamichel.bsky.social ! Projections with Respect to Bures Distance and Fidelity: Closed-Forms and Applications scirate.com/arxiv/2602.1... We derive simple closed-form solutions for fidelity / Bures/purified distance projections to various sets of interest.
A meme indicating how various objects in quantum information (pretty good measurement, Petz recovery map, Leifer-Spekkens state over time, and others) are shown to be fidelity/Bures projections in our article.
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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Thanks for the reply! But the example you posted has complex e.vals which are conjugates of each other with +ve real part, hence the trace and det condition will be satisfied without the e.vals being (real) positive.
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Afham @afhamash.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Here is a 'simple' 3-line proof for this statement! (Although the simplicity hides behind the form and properties of the matrix geometric mean.)
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