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Near term quantum computers with a high quantity (around 50) and quality (around 0.995 fidelity for two-qubit gates) of qubits will approximately sample from certain probability distributions beyond the capabilities of known classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Sergio Boixo , Sergei V. Isakov , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Hartmut Neven

We propose a general tensor network method for simulating quantum circuits. The method is massively more efficient in computing a large number of correlated bitstring amplitudes and probabilities than existing methods. As an application, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Feng Pan , Pan Zhang

Random quantum circuits are commonly viewed as hard to simulate classically. In some regimes this has been formally conjectured, and there had been no evidence against the more general possibility that for circuits with uniformly random…

Existing algorithms for explaining the output of image classifiers perform poorly on inputs where the object of interest is partially occluded. We present a novel, black-box algorithm for computing explanations that uses a principled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Hana Chockler , Daniel Kroening , Youcheng Sun

We establish several new fractal and number theoretical phenomena connected with expansions which are generated by infinite linear iterated function systems. First of all we show that the systems $\Phi$ of cylinders of generalized L\"uroth…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Sergio Albeverio , Yuri Kondratiev , Roman Nikiforov , Grygoriy Torbin

It has been recently proposed that the naive semiclassical prediction of non-unitary black hole evaporation can be understood in the fundamental description of the black hole as a consequence of ignorance of high-complexity information.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-24 Lisa Yang , Netta Engelhardt

Recently, Google announced the first demonstration of quantum computational supremacy with a programmable superconducting processor. Their demonstration is based on collecting samples from the output distribution of a noisy random quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Scott Aaronson , Sam Gunn

We give new evidence that quantum computers -- moreover, rudimentary quantum computers built entirely out of linear-optical elements -- cannot be efficiently simulated by classical computers. In particular, we define a model of computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Scott Aaronson , Alex Arkhipov

Universal Circuits (UCs) offer a promising approach to hardware Intellectual Property (IP) obfuscation, leveraging cryptographic principles to hide both structure and function in a programmable logic fabric. Their adaptability makes them…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zain Ul Abideen , Deepali Garg , Lawrence Pileggi , Samuel Pagliarini

Valiant's famous VP vs. VNP conjecture states that the symbolic permanent polynomial does not have polynomial-size algebraic circuits. However, the best upper bound on the size of the circuits computing the permanent is exponential.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Somnath Bhattacharjee , Markus Bläser , Pranjal Dutta , Saswata Mukherjee

Bell's theorem is supposed to exclude all local hidden-variable models of quantum correlations. However, an explicit counterexample shows that a new class of local realistic models, based on generalized arithmetic and calculus, can exactly…

General Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Marek Czachor

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) is a promising protocol for demonstrating quantum computational advantage. One of the key steps for proving classical hardness of GBS is the so-called ``hiding conjecture'', which asserts that one can ``hide''…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Laura Shou , Sarah H. Miller , Victor Galitski

Optimization of quantum circuits using an efficient compiler is key to its success for NISQ computers. Several 3rd party compilers are evolving to offer improved performance for large quantum circuits. These 3rd parties, or just a certain…

Quantum computational pseudorandomness has emerged as a fundamental notion that spans connections to complexity theory, cryptography and fundamental physics. However, all known constructions of efficient quantum-secure pseudorandom objects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Soumik Ghosh , Sathyawageeswar Subramanian , Wei Zhan

We give new evidence that quantum circuits are substantially more powerful than classical circuits. We show, relative to a random oracle, that polynomial-size quantum circuits can sample distributions that subexponential-size classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Guy Blanc , Caleb Koch , Jane Lange , Carmen Strassle , Li-Yang Tan

As state-of-the-art neural networks are deployed on reasoning and algorithmic tasks, exactness guarantees become increasingly important. However, high average-case accuracy can still mask inconsistent behaviors. This motivates exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Artur Back de Luca , Kimon Fountoulakis

We formalize a framework of algebraically natural lower bounds for algebraic circuits. Just as with the natural proofs notion of Razborov and Rudich for boolean circuit lower bounds, our notion of algebraically natural lower bounds captures…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Michael A. Forbes , Amir Shpilka , Ben Lee Volk

The quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is sometimes said to be the source of various exponential quantum speed-ups. In this paper we introduce a class of quantum circuits which cannot outperform classical computers even though the QFT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-25 M. Van den Nest

The problem of constructing explicit functions which cannot be approximated by low degree polynomials has been extensively studied in computational complexity, motivated by applications in circuit lower bounds, pseudo-randomness,…

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