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Conformal truncation is a powerful numerical method for solving generic strongly-coupled quantum field theories based on purely field-theoretic technics without introducing lattice regularization. We discuss possible speedups for performing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-04 Junyu Liu , Yuan Xin

The complexity of a computational problem is traditionally quantified based on the hardness of its worst case. This approach has many advantages and has led to a deep and beautiful theory. However, from the practical perspective, this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Yonatan Bilu , Amit Daniely , Nati Linial , Michael Saks

Noise is often regarded as anathema to quantum computation, but in some settings it can be an unlikely ally. We consider the problem of learning the class of $n$-bit parity functions by making queries to a quantum example oracle. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Andrew W. Cross , Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin

Quantum machine learning (QML) holds promise for accelerating pattern recognition, optimization, and data analysis, but the conditions under which it can truly outperform classical approaches remain unclear. Existing research often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Christophe Pere

We study the computational difficulty of computing the ground state degeneracy and the density of states for local Hamiltonians. We show that the difficulty of both problems is exactly captured by a class which we call #BQP, which is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-22 Brielin Brown , Steven T. Flammia , Norbert Schuch

We consider the problem of finding for a given $N$-tuple of polynomials (real or complex) the closest $N$-tuple that has a common divisor of degree at least $d$. Extended weighted Euclidean seminorm of the coefficients is used as a measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Konstantin Usevich , Ivan Markovsky

Recent research has demonstrated that quantum computers can solve certain types of problems substantially faster than the known classical algorithms. These problems include factoring integers and certain physics simulations. Practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme , Wojciech H. Zurek

This paper considers the use of singular perturbation approximations for a class of linear quantum systems arising in the area of linear quantum optics. The paper presents results on the physical realizability properties of the approximate…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-07-29 Ian R. Petersen

Simon in his FOCS'94 paper was the first to show an exponential gap between classical and quantum computation. The problem he dealt with is now part of a well-studied class of problems, the hidden subgroup problems. We study Simon's problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pascal Koiran , Vincent Nesme , Natacha Portier

We take a unifying and new approach toward polynomial and trigonometric approximation in an arbitrary number of variables, resulting in a precise and general ready-to-use tool that anyone can easily apply in new situations of interest. The…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Marcel de Jeu

Inspired by connections to two dimensional quantum theory, we define several models of computation based on permuting distinguishable particles (which we call balls), and characterize their computational complexity. In the quantum setting,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-24 Scott Aaronson , Adam Bouland , Greg Kuperberg , Saeed Mehraban

Quantum algorithms are demonstrated to outperform classical algorithms for certain problems and thus are promising candidates for efficient information processing. Herein we aim to provide a brief and popular introduction to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Shihao Zhang , Lvzhou Li

We study a two-dimensional generalization of the classical Bin Packing problem, denoted as 2D Demand Bin Packing. In this context, each bin is a horizontal timeline, and rectangular tasks (representing electric appliances or computational…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Susanne Albers , Waldo Gálvez , Ömer Behic Özdemir

We present a quantum-classical hybrid random power method that approximates a ground state of a Hamiltonian. The quantum part of our method computes a fixed number of elements of a Hamiltonian-matrix polynomial via quantum polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Taehee Ko , Hyowon Park , Sangkook Choi

In Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum complexity, the introduction of a suitable geometrical space, based on the Lie group formed by fundamental operators, facilitates the identification of complexity through geodesic distance in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

The classical approximation may be applied to a number of problems in non-equilibrium field theory. The principles and limits of classical real-time lattice simulations are presented, with particular emphasis on the definition of particle…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Jon-Ivar Skullerud

Highly efficient and even nearly optimal algorithms have been developed for the classical problem of univariate polynomial root-finding (see, e.g., \cite{P95}, \cite{P02}, \cite{MNP13}, and the bibliography therein), but this is still an…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Victor Y. Pan , Elias Tsigaridas

Quantum advantage is notoriously hard to find and even harder to prove. For example the class of functions computable with classical physics actually exactly coincides with the class computable quantum-mechanically. It is strongly believed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Howard Dale , David Jennings , Terry Rudolph

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

We address the classical knapsack problem and a variant in which an upper bound is imposed on the number of items that can be selected. We show that appropriate combinations of rounding techniques yield novel and powerful ways of rounding.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Monaldo Mastrolilli , Marcus Hutter