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Coherent-disorder-driven complexity transitions in a quantum-advantage architecture

Quantum Physics 2026-07-21 v1

Abstract

While decoherence is known to erode classical hardness in quantum random sampling, the impact of coherent spatial disorder remains an open question. We study a square-lattice instantaneous quantum polynomial-time (IQP) architecture subject to two-qubit gate-angle disorder and single-qubit dephasing using exact tensor-network simulations up to 576 qubits. For finite systems without dephasing, increasing disorder drives two consecutive crossovers toward classical simulability: the output distribution first loses anticoncentration, and then the tensor-network simulation cost drops from exponential to polynomial as entanglement is suppressed. The finite-size scaling collapses are consistent with continuous transitions in the large-system limit. Dephasing further reduces the complexity. We characterize the computationally hard regime through scaling laws that provide quantitative error-budget bounds for realistic near-term devices.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.18938,
  title  = {Coherent-disorder-driven complexity transitions in a quantum-advantage architecture},
  author = {Sung-Bin B. Lee and Chae-Yeun Park and Changhun Oh and Seung-Sup B. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.18938},
  year   = {2026}
}