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We develop novel protocols for generating loss-tolerant quantum codes; these are central for safeguarding information against qubit losses, with most crucial applications in quantum communications. Contrary to current proposals, our method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Francesco Cesa , Tommaso Feri , Angelo Bassi

Quantum Computing offers a potentially powerful new method for performing Machine Learning. However, several Quantum Machine Learning techniques have been shown to exhibit poor generalisation as the number of qubits increases. We address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Jamie Heredge , Charles Hill , Lloyd Hollenberg , Martin Sevior

Universal compression of patterns of sequences generated by independently identically distributed (i.i.d.) sources with unknown, possibly large, alphabets is investigated. A pattern is a sequence of indices that contains all consecutive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gil I. Shamir

Complex quantum circuits are constituted by combinations of quantum subroutines. The computation is possible as long as the quantum data encoding is consistent throughout the circuit. Despite its fundamental importance, the formalization of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Gabriele Agliardi , Enrico Prati

We present a new variable-length computation-friendly encoding scheme, named SFDC (Succinct Format with Direct aCcesibility), that supports direct and fast accessibility to any element of the compressed sequence and achieves compression…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Domenico Cantone , Simone Faro

Quantized Indexing is a fast and space-efficient form of enumerative (combinatorial) coding, the strongest among asymptotically optimal universal entropy coding algorithms. The present advance in enumerative coding is similar to that made…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ratko V. Tomic

We describe quantum circuits with only $\widetilde{\cal O}(N)$ Toffoli complexity that block encode the spectra of quantum chemistry Hamiltonians in a basis of $N$ arbitrary (e.g., molecular) orbitals. With ${\cal O}(\lambda / \epsilon)$…

Scaling up quantum computers to attain substantial speedups over classical computing requires fault tolerance. Conventionally, protocols for fault-tolerant quantum computation demand excessive space overheads by using many physical qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Hayata Yamasaki , Masato Koashi

While achieving a compression ratio of 2.0 bits/base, the new algorithm codes non-N bases in fixed length. It dramatically reduces the time of coding and decoding than previous DNA compression algorithms and some universal compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Jie Liu , Sheng Bao , Zhiqiang Jing , Shi Chen

As quantum computers continue to become more capable, the possibilities of their applications increase. For example, quantum techniques are being integrated with classical neural networks to perform machine learning. In order to be used in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-03 Nidhi Munikote

Quantum Computers offer an intriguing challenge in modern Computer Science. With the inevitable physical limitations to Moore's Law, quantum hardware provides avenues to solve grander problems faster by utilizing Quantum Mechanical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Samuel T. Bieberich , Ketan C. Maheshwari , Sean R. Wilkinson , Prasanna Date , In-Saeng Suh , Rafael Ferreira da Silva

Quantum data locking is a quantum communication primitive that allows the use of a short secret key to encrypt a much longer message. It guarantees information-theoretical security against an adversary with limited quantum memory. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Zixin Huang , Pieter Kok , Cosmo Lupo

Huffman coding is well known to be useful in certain decision problems involving minimizing the average number of (freely chosen) queries to determine an unknown random variable. However, in problems where the queries are more constrained,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shuyuan Zhang , Jichen Sun , Shengkang Chen

Protein design is a technique to engineer proteins by modifying their sequence to obtain novel functionalities. In this method, amino acids in the sequence are permutated to find the low energy states satisfying the configuration. However,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-10 Mohammad Hassan Khatami , Udson C. Mendes , Nathan Wiebe , Philip M. Kim

For some applications where the speed of decoding and the fault tolerance are important, like in video storing, one of the successful answers is Fix-Free Codes. These codes have been applied in some standards like H.263+ and MPEG-4. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Alireza Poostindouz , Adel Aghajan

The usual scenario in fault tolerant quantum computation involves certain amount of qubits encoded in each code block, transversal operations between them and destructive measurements of ancillary code blocks. We introduce a new approach in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Bombin , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Continuous-variable quantum computing utilizes continuous parameters of a quantum system to encode information, promising efficient solutions to complex problems. Trapped-ion systems provide a robust platform with long coherence times and…

Important quantum algorithm routines allow the implementation of specific quantum operations (a.k.a. gates) by combining basic quantum circuits with an iterative structure. In this structure, the number of repetitions of the basic circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Clement Ronfaut , Robin Ollive , Stephane Louise

It is conjectured that quantum computers are able to solve certain problems more quickly than any deterministic or probabilistic computer. A quantum computer exploits the rules of quantum mechanics to speed up computations. However, it is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-15 Salah A. Aly

In this work we study quantum algorithms for Hopcroft's problem which is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Given $n$ points and $n$ lines in the plane, the task is to determine whether there is a point-line incidence. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Vladimirs Andrejevs , Aleksandrs Belovs , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs