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Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Niraj Kumar , Rawad Mezher , Elham Kashefi

Although tensor networks are powerful tools for simulating low-dimensional quantum physics, tensor network algorithms are very computationally costly in higher spatial dimensions. We introduce quantum gauge networks: a different kind of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Kevin Slagle

A quantum computer directly manipulates information stored in the state of quantum mechanical systems. The available operations have many attractive features but also underly severe restrictions, which complicate the design of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Sos S. Agaian , Andreas Klappenecker

A central problem in quantum computation is to understand which quantum circuits are useful for exponential speed-ups over classical computation. We address this question in the setting of query complexity and show that for almost any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Michal Horodecki

We analyze the quantum walk in higher spatial dimensions and compare classical and quantum spreading as a function of time. Tensor products of Hadamard transformations and the discrete Fourier transform arise as natural extensions of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Troy D. Mackay , Stephen D. Bartlett , Leigh T. Stephenson , Barry C. Sanders

We present a practical design framework for high-fidelity quantum control in coupled Kerr-nonlinear oscillators, directly addressing the challenge of spectral crowding. We show that systematic spectral degeneracies, which hinder selective…

Expander graphs are fundamental in both computer science and mathematics, with a wide array of applications. With quantum technology reshaping our world, quantum expanders have emerged, finding numerous uses in quantum information theory,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Ning Ning

Unitary t-designs are some of the most versatile tools in quantum information theory. Their applications range from randomized benchmarking and shadow tomography, to more fundamental ones such as emulating quantum chaos and establishing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Namit Anand , Jeffrey Marshall , Jason Saied , Eleanor Rieffel , Andrea Morello

The quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is a powerful tool in quantum computing. The main ingredients of QFT are formed by the Walsh-Hadamard transform H and phase shifts P(.), both of which are 2x2 unitary matrices as operators on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles M. Bowden , Goong Chen , Zijian Diao , Andreas Klappenecker

This paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions for constructing a universal quantum computer over continuous variables. As an example, it is shown how a universal quantum computer for the amplitudes of the electromagnetic field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Seth Lloyd , Samuel L. Braunstein

A quantum walk is a time-homogeneous quantum-mechanical process on a graph defined by analogy to classical random walk. The quantum walker is a particle that moves from a given vertex to adjacent vertices in quantum superposition. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Andrew M. Childs , David Gosset , Zak Webb

A complex projective $t$-design is a configuration of vectors which is ``evenly distributed'' on a sphere in the sense that sampling uniformly from it reproduces the moments of Haar measure up to order $2t$. We show that the set of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Richard Kueng , David Gross

A quantum expander is a unital quantum channel that is rapidly mixing, has only a few Kraus operators, and can be implemented efficiently on a quantum computer. We consider the problem of estimating the mixing time (i.e., the spectral gap)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 Adam D. Bookatz , Stephen P. Jordan , Yi-Kai Liu , Pawel Wocjan

We provide the first tensor network method for computing quantum weight enumerator polynomials in the most general form. If a quantum code has a known tensor network construction of its encoding map, our method is far more efficient, and in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 ChunJun Cao , Michael J. Gullans , Brad Lackey , Zitao Wang

$k$-Uniform states are fundamental to quantum information and computing, with applications in multipartite entanglement and quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs). Prior work has primarily focused on constructing exact $k$-uniform states or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Kaiyi Guo , Fei Shi , You Zhou , Qi Zhao

We provide a generalization of the idea of unitary designs to cover finite averaging over much more general operations on quantum states. Namely, we construct finite averaging sets for averaging quantum states over arbitrary reductive Lie…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Marcin Markiewicz , Konrad Schlichtholz

Epsilon-nets and approximate unitary $t$-designs are natural notions that capture properties of unitary operations relevant for numerous applications in quantum information and quantum computing. The former constitute subsets of unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Michał Oszmaniec , Adam Sawicki , Michał Horodecki

Randomness is a fundamental resource in quantum information, with crucial applications in cryptography, algorithms, and error correction. A central challenge is to construct unitary $k$-designs that closely approximate Haar-random unitaries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lennart Bittel , Lorenzo Leone

Families of expander graphs were first constructed by Margulis from discrete groups with property (T). Within the framework of quantum information theory, several authors have generalised the notion of an expander graph to the setting of…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Michael Brannan , Eric Culf , Matthijs Vernooij

A t-design for quantum states is a finite set of quantum states with the property of simulating the Haar-measure on quantum states, w.r.t. any test that uses at most t copies of a state. We give efficient constructions for approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Joseph Emerson