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Polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) is a versatile tool widely used in uncertainty quantification and machine learning, but its successful application depends strongly on the accuracy and reliability of the resulting PCE-based response…

Computation · Statistics 2023-06-14 Paul-Christian Bürkner , Ilja Kröker , Sergey Oladyshkin , Wolfgang Nowak

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 determine the computational power of preparing Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS), as well as the complexity of classically simulating them, and generally the complexity of contracting tensor networks. While creating PEPS allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Norbert Schuch , Michael M. Wolf , Frank Verstraete , J. Ignacio Cirac

A candidate application for quantum computers is to simulate the low-temperature properties of quantum systems. For this task, there is a well-studied quantum algorithm that performs quantum phase estimation on an initial trial state that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Chi-Fang , Chen , Alexander M. Dalzell , Mario Berta , Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Joel A. Tropp

Given a nondeterministic finite-state automaton (NFA), we aim to estimate the size of an equivalent deterministic finite-state automaton (DFA). We demonstrate that computing the state complexity of an NFA within polynomial precision is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ivan Baburin , Ryan Cotterell

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a fundamental NP-hard task that poses significant challenges for both traditional heuristics and modern learning-based solvers. Existing QAP solvers still struggle to achieve consistently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yicheng Pan , Ruisong Zhou , Haijun Zou , Tianyou Li , Zaiwen Wen

This paper is a survey of plurisubharmonic theory where the usual polynomial ring is replaced by a polynomial ring $\mathcal P^S(\mathbb C^n)$ where the $m$-th degree polynomials have exponents restricted to $mS$, where $S\subseteq \mathbb…

Quantum computing involving physical systems with continuous degrees of freedom, such as the quantum states of light, has recently attracted significant interest. However, a well-defined quantum complexity theory for these bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Ulysse Chabaud , Michael Joseph , Saeed Mehraban , Arsalan Motamedi

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is a well-known permutation-based combinatorial optimization problem with real applications in industrial and logistics environments. Motivated by the challenge that this NP-hard problem represents, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-24 Etor Arza , Aritz Perez , Ekhine Irurozki , Josu Ceberio

The quantum Mpemba effect (QME) is a phenomenon observed in many-body systems where initial systems configurations farther from equilibrium can be observed to equilibrate faster than configurations that are closer to it. By considering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Matthew Mackinnon , Mauro Paternostro

In order to prove that the P of problems is different to the NP class, we consider the satisfability problem of propositional calculus formulae, which is an NP-complete problem. It is shown that, for every search algorithm A, there is a set…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-11-09 Alfredo von Reckow

We generalize quantum-classical PCPs, first introduced by Weggemans, Folkertsma and Cade (TQC 2024), to allow for $q$ quantum queries to a polynomially-sized classical proof ($\mathsf{QCPCP}_{Q,c,s}[q]$). Exploiting a connection with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Harry Buhrman , François Le Gall , Jordi Weggemans

Quantum Hamiltonian complexity studies computational complexity aspects of local Hamiltonians and ground states; these questions can be viewed as generalizations of classical computational complexity problems related to local constraint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad , Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani

This paper begins with a class of convex quadratic programs (QPs) with bounded variables solvable by the parametric principal pivoting algorithm with $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ strongly polynomial complexity, where $n$ is the number of variables of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Jong-Shi Pang , Shaoning Han

We prove that quantum computation is polynomially equivalent to classical probabilistic computation with an oracle for estimating the value of simple sums, quadratically signed weight enumerators. The problem of estimating these sums can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Knill , R. Laflamme

This thesis is divided into two mainly independent parts: In the first part, we derive a criterion to determine when a translationally invariant Matrix Product State (MPS) has long range localizable entanglement, which indicates that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-22 Thorsten B. Wahl

Among $\mathbf{PSPACE}$-complete problems, QSAT, or quantified SAT, is one of the most used to show that the class of problems solvable in polynomial time by families of a given variant of P systems includes the whole $\mathbf{PSPACE}$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Alberto Leporati , Luca Manzoni , Giancarlo Mauri , Antonio E. Porreca , Claudio Zandron

This thesis studies three topics in quantum computation and information: The approximability of quantum problems, quantum proof systems, and non-classical correlations in quantum systems. In the first area, we demonstrate a polynomial-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-15 Sevag Gharibian

In this thesis, we introduce a new quantum Turing machine (QTM) model that supports general quantum operators, together with its pushdown, counter, and finite automaton variants, and examine the computational power of classical and quantum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-03 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

The polynomial hierarchy is a grading of problems by difficulty, including P, NP and coNP as the best known classes. The promise polynomial hierarchy is similar, but extended to include promise problems. It turns out that the promise…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Adam Chalcraft , Samuel Kutin , David Petrie Moulton