Adaptivity for non‑Gaussian measurements

Determine whether adaptivity is required for non‑Gaussian measurement strategies to achieve energy‑independent sample complexity in Gaussian state tomography.

Background

The authors establish a non‑Gaussian advantage for passive Gaussian states, showing that non‑Gaussian operations can reduce the sample complexity scaling from n3/ε2 to roughly n2/ε2.

Whether similar energy‑independence gains require adaptivity when using non‑Gaussian measurements is currently unknown.

References

It also remains unclear whether non-Gaussian measurements need adaptivity.

Towards sample-optimal learning of bosonic Gaussian quantum states  (2603.18136 - Chen et al., 18 Mar 2026) in Open problems, Section 5.2 ("Open problems")