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Maximum Separation of Quantum Communication Complexity With and Without Shared Entanglement

Quantum Physics 2026-04-20 v3 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We present relation problems whose input size is nn such that they can be solved with no communication for entanglement-assisted quantum communication models, but require Ω(n)\Omega(n) qubit communication for 22-way quantum communication models without prior shared entanglement. This is the maximum separation of quantum communication complexity with and without shared entanglement. To our knowledge, our result even shows the first lower bound on quantum communication complexity without shared entanglement when the upper bound of entanglement-assisted quantum communication models is zero. Our result refutes a quantum analog of Newman's theorem. The problem we consider is parallel repetition of any non-local game which has a perfect quantum strategy and no perfect classical strategy, and for which a parallel repetition theorem holds with exponential decay.

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@article{arxiv.2505.16457,
  title  = {Maximum Separation of Quantum Communication Complexity With and Without Shared Entanglement},
  author = {Atsuya Hasegawa and François Le Gall and Augusto Modanese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16457},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

15 pages; v2: fixed typos and minor edits; v3: minor edits

R2 v1 2026-07-01T02:30:59.283Z