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Quantum processing unit (QPU) has to satisfy highly demanding quantity and quality requirements on its qubits to produce accurate results for problems at useful scales. Furthermore, classical simulations of quantum circuits generally do not…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wei Tang , Margaret Martonosi

We classify two-qubit commuting Hamiltonians in terms of their computational complexity. Suppose one has a two-qubit commuting Hamiltonian H which one can apply to any pair of qubits, starting in a computational basis state. We prove a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Adam Bouland , Laura Mančinska , Xue Zhang

This note introduces "Q-marginals", which are quantum states encoding some probability distribution in a manner suitable for use in Quantum Monte Carlo Integration (QMCI), and shows that these can be prepared directly from a classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Steven Herbert

We compare four polynomial-resource measurement strategies, (I) $Z$-basis-only, (II) nearest-neighbor $ZZ$ (NN), (III) multi-basis ($Z$, $X$, $Y$), and (IV) classical shadows, for classifying three quantum circuit families: IQP, Clifford,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Andrew Maciejunes , Ross Gore , Sachin Shetty , Barry Ezell

Quantum machine learning is emerging as a promising application of quantum computing due to its distinct way of encoding and processing data. It is believed that large-scale quantum machine learning demonstrates substantial advantages over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Kiwmann Hwang , Hyang-Tag Lim , Yong-Su Kim , Daniel K. Park , Yosep Kim

We develop Monte Carlo methods for sampling random states and corresponding bit strings in qubit systems. To this end, we derive exact probability density functions that yield the Porter-Thomas distribution in the limit of large systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Andreas Raab

Understanding the boundary between classical simulatability and the power of quantum computation is a fascinating topic. Direct simulation of noisy quantum computation requires solving an open quantum many-body system, which is very costly.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Xun Gao , Luming Duan

Many quantum algorithms can be represented in a form of a classical circuit positioned between quantum Fourier transformations. Motivated by the search for new quantum algorithms, we turn to circuits where the latter transformation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Vojtěch Havlíček , Sergii Strelchuk , Kristan Temme

In this research, we present a quantum circuit design and implementation for a parallel universal linear bounded automata. This circuit is able to accelerate the inference of algorithmic structures in data for discovering causal generative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Aritra Sarkar , Zaid Al-Ars , Koen Bertels

We consider the computational model of IQP circuits (in which all computational steps are $X$ basis diagonal gates), supplemented by intermediate $X$ or $Z$ basis measurements. We show that if we allow non-adaptive or adaptive $X$ basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Richard Jozsa , Soumik Ghosh , Sergii Strelchuk

We study the power of quantum fingerprints in the simultaneous message passing (SMP) setting of communication complexity. Yao recently showed how to simulate, with exponential overhead, classical shared-randomness SMP protocols by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Dmytro Gavinsky , Julia Kempe , Ronald de Wolf

Blind quantum computing enables a client, who can only generate or measure single-qubit states, to delegate quantum computing to a remote quantum server in such a way that the input, output, and program are hidden from the server. It is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Tomoyuki Morimae , Harumichi Nishimura , Yuki Takeuchi , Seiichiro Tani

Classical simulation of quantum computers is an irreplaceable step in the design of quantum algorithms. Exponential simulation costs demand the use of high-performance computing techniques, and in particular distribution, whereby the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Tyson Jones , Bálint Koczor , Simon C. Benjamin

A fundamental pursuit in complexity theory concerns reducing worst-case problems to average-case problems. There exist complexity classes such as PSPACE that admit worst-case to average-case reductions. However, for many other classes such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Nai-Hui Chia , Sean Hallgren , Fang Song

We present verification protocols to gain confidence in the correct performance of the realization of an arbitrary universal quantum computation. The derivation of the protocols is based on the fact that matchgate computations, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Jose Carrasco , Marc Langer , Antoine Neven , Barbara Kraus

Quantum circuits consisting of Clifford and matchgates are two classes of circuits that are known to be efficiently simulatable on a classical computer. We introduce a unified framework that shows in a transparent way the special structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Igor Ermakov , Oleg Lychkovskiy , Tim Byrnes

Recent work on the instantaneous quantum polynomial-time (IQP) quantum-circuit Born machine (QCBM) highlights a promising paradigm for generative modeling: train classically, deploy quantumly. In this setting, the training objective can be…

We apply numerical optimization and linear algebra algorithms for classical computers to the problem of automatically synthesizing algorithms for quantum computers. Using our framework, we apply several common techniques from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Yuxin Huang , Benjamin E. Grossman-Ponemon , David A. B. Hyde

We show that if a language is recognized within certain error bounds by constant-depth quantum circuits over a finite family of gates, then it is computable in (classical) polynomial time. In particular, our results imply EQNC^0 is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Fenner , Frederic Green , Steven Homer , Yong Zhang

It is imperative that useful quantum computers be very difficult to simulate classically; otherwise classical computers could be used for the applications envisioned for the quantum ones. Perfect quantum computers are unarguably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Yiqing Zhou , E. Miles Stoudenmire , Xavier Waintal