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We investigate the structure of quantum proof systems by establishing collapse results that reveal simplifications in their complexity landscape. By extending classical theorems such as the Karp-Lipton theorem to quantum settings and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Kartik Anand , Kabgyun Jeong , Junseo Lee

The polynomial-time hierarchy ($\mathrm{PH}$) has proven to be a powerful tool for providing separations in computational complexity theory (modulo standard conjectures such as $\mathrm{PH}$ does not collapse). Here, we study whether two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Sevag Gharibian , Miklos Santha , Jamie Sikora , Aarthi Sundaram , Justin Yirka

We study the limitations of black-box amplification in the quantum complexity class QMA. Amplification is known to boost any inverse-polynomial gap between completeness and soundness to exponentially small error, and a recent result…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Scott Aaronson , Phillip Harris , Freek Witteveen

We show that any language in nondeterministic time $\exp(\exp(\cdots \exp(n)))$, where the number of iterated exponentials is an arbitrary function $R(n)$, can be decided by a multiprover interactive proof system with a classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-01 Joseph Fitzsimons , Zhengfeng Ji , Thomas Vidick , Henry Yuen

Atserias and M\"uller (JACM, 2020) proved that for every unsatisfiable CNF formula $\varphi$, the formula $\operatorname{Ref}(\varphi)$, stating "$\varphi$ has small Resolution refutations", does not have subexponential-size Resolution…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Noel Arteche , Albert Atserias , Susanna F. de Rezende , Erfan Khaniki

We develop a new lower bound method for analysing the complexity of the Equality function (EQ) in the Simultaneous Message Passing (SMP) model of communication complexity. The new technique gives tight lower bounds of $\Omega(\sqrt n)$ for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ralph C. Bottesch , Dmytro Gavinsky , Hartmut Klauck

This paper presents stronger methods of achieving perfect completeness in quantum interactive proofs. First, it is proved that any problem in QMA has a two-message quantum interactive proof system of perfect completeness with constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Hirotada Kobayashi , François Le Gall , Harumichi Nishimura

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

We show that, for any language in NP, there is an entanglement-resistant constant-bit two-prover interactive proof system with a constant completeness vs. soundness gap. The previously proposed classical two-prover constant-bit interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-13 Richard Cleve , Dmitry Gavinsky , Rahul Jain

We give a quantum interactive proof system for the local Hamiltonian problem on n qubits in which (i) the verifier has a single round of interaction with five entangled provers, (ii) the verifier sends a classical message on O(log n) bits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Joseph Fitzsimons , Thomas Vidick

Quantum information and computation provide a fascinating twist on the notion of proofs in computational complexity theory. For instance, one may consider a quantum computational analogue of the complexity class \class{NP}, known as QMA, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Thomas Vidick , John Watrous

We initiate the study of relativistic zero-knowledge quantum proof of knowledge systems with classical communication, formally defining a number of useful concepts and constructing appropriate knowledge extractors for all the existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Kaiyan Shi , Kaushik Chakraborty , Wen Yu Kon , Omar Amer , Marco Pistoia , Charles Lim

We give an alternative proof of PreciseQMA = PSPACE, first proved by Fefferman and Lin (Innov. Theor. Comp. Sci. 2018), where PreciseQMA is the class Quantum Merlin-Arthur with inverse exponential completeness-soundness gap. We adapt the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yulong Li

We give a simpler proof of one of the results of Kobayashi, Le Gall, and Nishimura [arXiv:1210.1290v2], which shows that any QMA protocol can be converted to a one-sided error protocol, in which Arthur and Merlin initially share a constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Attila Pereszlényi

We provide several advances to the understanding of the class of Quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems (QMA), the quantum analogue of NP. Our central contribution is proving a longstanding conjecture that the Consistency of Local Density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Anne Broadbent , Alex B. Grilo

In this paper we explore the power of AM for the case that verifiers are {\em two-way finite automata with quantum and classical states} (2QCFA)--introduced by Ambainis and Watrous in 2002--and the communications are classical. It is of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Shenggen Zheng , Daowen Qiu , Jozef Gruska

We show several results related to interactive proof modes of communication complexity. First we show lower bounds for the QMA-communication complexity of the functions Inner Product and Disjointness. We describe a general method to prove…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Hartmut Klauck

We give a new theoretical solution to a leading-edge experimental challenge, namely to the verification of quantum computations in the regime of high computational complexity. Our results are given in the language of quantum interactive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Anne Broadbent

The way entanglement influences the power of quantum and classical multi-prover interactive proof systems is a long-standing open question. We show that the class of languages recognized by quantum multi-prover interactive proof systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Anne Broadbent , Joseph Fitzsimons , Elham Kashefi

A central problem in quantum computational complexity is how to prevent entanglement-assisted cheating in multi-prover interactive proof systems. It is well-known that the standard oracularization technique completely fails in some proof…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-06 Tsuyoshi Ito , Hirotada Kobayashi , Keiji Matsumoto