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In practical situations, the reliability of quantum resources can be compromised due to complex generation processes or adversarial manipulations during transmission. Consequently, the trials generated sequentially in an experiment may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Yanbao Zhang , Akshay Seshadri , Emanuel Knill

We introduce a framework for the formal specification and verification of quantum circuits based on the Feynman path integral. Our formalism, built around exponential sums of polynomial functions, provides a structured and natural way of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Matthew Amy

Demonstrating quantum superiority for some computational task will be a milestone for quantum technologies and would show that computational advantages are possible not only with a universal quantum computer but with simpler physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Eleni Diamanti , Iordanis Kerenidis

We examine the execution of general U(1) transformations on programmable quantum processors. We show that, with only the minimal assumption of availability of copies of the one-qubit program state, that the apparent advantage of existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adam Brazier , Vladimir Buzek , Peter L. Knight

With today's quantum processors venturing into regimes beyond the capabilities of classical devices [1-3], we face the challenge to verify that these devices perform as intended, even when we cannot check their results on classical…

We introduce the problem of formally verifying properties of Markov processes where the parameters are given by the output of machine learning models. For a broad class of machine learning models, including linear models, tree-based models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Muhammad Maaz , Timothy C. Y. Chan

Shor's algorithm for factoring in polynomial time on a quantum computer\cite{Shor} gives an enormous advantage over all known classical factoring algorithm. We demonstrate how to factor products of large prime numbers using a compiled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 John A. Smolin , Graeme Smith , Alex Vargo

In recent years, many computational tasks have been proposed as candidates for showing a quantum computational advantage, that is an advantage in the time needed to perform the task using a quantum instead of a classical machine.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Federico Centrone , Niraj Kumar , Eleni Diamanti , Iordanis Kerenidis

While recent progress in quantum hardware open the door for significant speedup in certain key areas (cryptography, biology, chemistry, optimization, machine learning, etc), quantum algorithms are still hard to implement right, and the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Christophe Chareton , Sébastien Bardin , Dongho Lee , Benoît Valiron , Renaud Vilmart , Zhaowei Xu

We present a framework for certifying entanglement properties of quantum states and measurements in line networks. The framework is based on the generalised Choi isomorphism, which can be used to map bipartite states and measurements into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Sophie Egelhaaf , Roope Uola

In quantum information processing (QIP), the quantum Fourier transform (QFT) has a plethora of applications [1] [2] [3]: Shor's algorithm and phase estimation are just a few well-known examples. Shor's quantum factorization algorithm, one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Shlomo Kashani , Maryam Alqasemi , Jacob Hammond

Probabilistic programming provides a convenient lingua franca for writing succinct and rigorous descriptions of probabilistic models and inference tasks. Several probabilistic programming languages, including Anglican, Church or Hakaru,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Tetsuya Sato , Alejandro Aguirre , Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi , Deepak Garg , Justin Hsu

We define a language-independent model of nondeterministic quantum programs in which a quantum program consists of a finite set of quantum processes. These processes are represented by quantum Markov chains over the common state space. An…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-01-05 Yangjia Li , Nengkun Yu , Mingsheng Ying

In order to assess whether quantum resources can provide an advantage over classical computation, it is necessary to characterize and benchmark the non-classical properties of quantum algorithms in a practical manner. In this paper, we show…

We present a logic for reasoning about pairs of interactive quantum programs - quantum relational Hoare logic (qRHL). This logic follows the spirit of probabilistic relational Hoare logic (Barthe et al. 2009) and allows us to formulate how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Dominique Unruh

We propose quantum devices that can realize probabilistically different projective measurements on a qubit. The desired measurement basis is selected by the quantum state of a program register. First we analyze the phase-covariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaromir Fiurasek , Miloslav Dusek

Although classical computing has excelled in a wide range of applications, there remain problems that push the limits of its capabilities, especially in fields like cryptography, optimization, and materials science. Quantum computing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Neilson Carlos Leite Ramalho , Erico Augusto da Silva , Higor Amario de Souza , Marcos Lordello Chaim

A fundamental problem in statistics and learning theory is to test properties of distributions. We show that quantum computers can solve such problems with significant speed-ups. In particular, we give fast quantum algorithms for testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 András Gilyén , Tongyang Li

Multiparametric statistical model providing stable reconstruction of parameters by observations is considered. The only general method of this kind is the root model based on the representation of the probability density as a squared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. I. Bogdanov

We initiate the systematic study of QMA algorithms in the setting of property testing, to which we refer as QMA proofs of proximity (QMAPs). These are quantum query algorithms that receive explicit access to a sublinear-size untrusted proof…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 Marcel Dall'Agnol , Tom Gur , Subhayan Roy Moulik , Justin Thaler