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I study the class of problems efficiently solvable by a quantum computer, given the ability to "postselect" on the outcomes of measurements. I prove that this class coincides with a classical complexity class called PP, or Probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Aaronson

Complexity theory traditionally studies the hardness of solving classical computational problems. In the quantum setting, it is also natural to consider a different notion of complexity, namely the complexity of physically preparing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Tony Metger , Henry Yuen

A central problem in quantum computing is to identify computational tasks which can be solved substantially faster on a quantum computer than on any classical computer. By studying the hardest such tasks, known as BQP-complete problems, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pawel Wocjan , Shengyu Zhang

This article surveys quantum computational complexity, with a focus on three fundamental notions: polynomial-time quantum computations, the efficient verification of quantum proofs, and quantum interactive proof systems. Properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-23 John Watrous

The existence of one-way functions (OWFs) forms the minimal assumption in classical cryptography. However, this is not necessarily the case in quantum cryptography. One-way puzzles (OWPuzzs), introduced by Khurana and Tomer, provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Taiga Hiroka , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Tomoyuki Morimae

In this paper, we classify $(q,q)$-biprojective almost perfect nonlinear (APN) functions over $\mathbb{LL} \times \mathbb{LL}$ under the natural left and right action of $\mathrm{GL}(2,\mathbb{LL})$ where $\mathbb{LL}$ is a finite field of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Faruk Göloğlu

It is shown that determining whether a quantum computation has a non-zero probability of accepting is at least as hard as the polynomial time hierarchy. This hardness result also applies to determining in general whether a given quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Fenner , Frederic Green , Steven Homer , Randall Pruim

The complexity of quantum computation remains poorly understood. While physicists attempt to find ways to create quantum computers, we still do not have much evidence one way or the other as to how useful these machines will be. The tools…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lance Fortnow

When it comes to NP, its natural definition, its wide applicability across scientific disciplines, and its timeless relevance, the writing is on the wall: There can be only one. Quantum NP, on the other hand, is clearly the apple that fell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Sevag Gharibian

Adleman, DeMarrais, and Huang introduced the nondeterministic quantum polynomial-time complexity class NQP as an analogue of NP. Fortnow and Rogers implicitly showed that, when the amplitudes are rational numbers, NQP is contained in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomoyuki Yamakami , Andrew C. Yao

Some representation-theoretic multiplicities, such as the Kostka and the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, admit a combinatorial interpretation that places their computation in the complexity class #P. Whether this holds more generally is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Matthias Christandl , Aram W. Harrow , Greta Panova , Pietro M. Posta , Michael Walter

One can fix the randomness used by a randomized algorithm, but there is no analogous notion of fixing the quantumness used by a quantum algorithm. Underscoring this fundamental difference, we show that, in the black-box setting, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Scott Aaronson , DeVon Ingram , William Kretschmer

We study structural aspects of randomized parameterized computation. We introduce a new class ${\sf W[P]}$-${\sf PFPT}$ as a natural parameterized analogue of ${\sf PP}$. Our definition uses the machine based characterization of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Ankit Chauhan , B. V. Raghavendra Rao

The widely held belief that BQP strictly contains BPP raises fundamental questions: if we cannot efficiently compute predictions for the behavior of quantum systems, how can we test their behavior? In other words, is quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or , Elad Eban , Urmila Mahadev

We study approximation of embeddings between finite dimensional L_p spaces in the quantum model of computation. For the quantum query complexity of this problem matching (up to logarithmic factors) upper and lower bounds are obtained. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Heinrich

Probabilistic relational models such as parametric factor graphs enable efficient (lifted) inference by exploiting the indistinguishability of objects. In lifted inference, a representative of indistinguishable objects is used for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Malte Luttermann , Jan Speller , Marcel Gehrke , Tanya Braun , Ralf Möller , Mattis Hartwig

This note presents a concise and non-polemical comparison of several major interpretations of quantum mechanics, with a particular emphasis on the distinction between FAPP-solutions ("For All Practical Purposes'') versus ontological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Philippe Grangier

The widely held belief that BQP strictly contains BPP raises fundamental questions: Upcoming generations of quantum computers might already be too large to be simulated classically. Is it possible to experimentally test that these systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or , Elad Eban

Abductive explanations (AXp's) are widely used for understanding decisions of classifiers. Existing definitions are suitable when features are independent. However, we show that ignoring constraints when they exist between features may lead…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Martin Cooper , Leila Amgoud

A heap is a structure with a ternary operation which is intuitively a group with forgotten unit element. Quantum heaps are associative algebras with a ternary cooperation which are to the Hopf algebras what heaps are to groups, and, in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Zoran Škoda