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In this work, we initiate the study of the Minimum Circuit Size Problem (MCSP) in the quantum setting. MCSP is a problem to compute the circuit complexity of Boolean functions. It is a fascinating problem in complexity theory -- its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Nai-Hui Chia , Chi-Ning Chou , Jiayu Zhang , Ruizhe Zhang

A long-standing open problem in quantum complexity theory is whether ${\sf QMA}$, the quantum analogue of ${\sf NP}$, is equal to ${\sf QMA}_1$, its one-sided error variant. We show that ${\sf QMA}={\sf QMA}^{\infty}= {\sf QMA}_1^{\infty}$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Stacey Jeffery , Freek Witteveen

Verification is a task to check whether a given quantum state is close to an ideal state or not. In this paper, we show that a variety of many-qubit quantum states can be verified with only sequential single-qubit measurements of Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Yuki Takeuchi , Tomoyuki Morimae

Approximation algorithms for classical constraint satisfaction problems are one of the main research areas in theoretical computer science. Here we define a natural approximation version of the QMA-complete local Hamiltonian problem and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 Sevag Gharibian , Julia Kempe

We study three variants of multi-prover quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems. We first show that the class of problems that can be efficiently verified using polynomially many quantum proofs, each of logarithmic-size, is exactly MQA (also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 Sevag Gharibian , Jamie Sikora , Sarvagya Upadhyay

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

We show that the class MIP* of languages that can be decided by a classical verifier interacting with multiple all-powerful quantum provers sharing entanglement is equal to the class RE of recursively enumerable languages. Our proof builds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Zhengfeng Ji , Anand Natarajan , Thomas Vidick , John Wright , Henry Yuen

We prove that the complexity class QIP, which consists of all problems having quantum interactive proof systems, is contained in PSPACE. This containment is proved by applying a parallelized form of the matrix multiplicative weights update…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Rahul Jain , Zhengfeng Ji , Sarvagya Upadhyay , John Watrous

We continue the line of work initiated by Kalai et al. (STOC '23), studying "compiled" nonlocal games played between a classical verifier and a single quantum prover, with cryptography simulating the spatial separation between the players.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 David Cui , Chirag Falor , Anand Natarajan , Tina Zhang

We identify a formal connection between physical problems related to the detection of separable (unentangled) quantum states and complexity classes in theoretical computer science. In particular, we show that to nearly every quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 Gus Gutoski , Patrick Hayden , Kevin Milner , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum neuromorphic computing (QNC) is a sub-field of quantum machine learning (QML) that capitalizes on inherent system dynamics. As a result, QNC can run on contemporary, noisy quantum hardware and is poised to realize challenging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Rodrigo Araiza Bravo , Khadijeh Najafi , Taylor L. Patti , Xun Gao , Susanne F. Yelin

Raghavendra (STOC 2008) gave an elegant and surprising result: if Khot's Unique Games Conjecture (STOC 2002) is true, then for every constraint satisfaction problem (CSP), the best approximation ratio is attained by a certain simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-01 Yuichi Yoshida

We give a converging semidefinite programming hierarchy of outer approximations for the set of quantum correlations of fixed dimension and derive analytical bounds on the convergence speed of the hierarchy. In particular, we give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Hyejung H. Jee , Carlo Sparaciari , Omar Fawzi , Mario Berta

We present evidence that there exist quantum computations that can be carried out in constant depth, using 2-qubit gates, that cannot be simulated classically with high accuracy. We prove that if one can simulate these circuits classically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Barbara M. Terhal , David P. DiVincenzo

Fault-tolerant quantum computation traditionally incurs substantial resource overhead, with both qubit and time overheads scaling polylogarithmically with the size of the computation. While prior work by Gottesman showed that constant qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Matthias Christandl , Omar Fawzi , Ashutosh Goswami

In this paper, we introduce a new public quantum interactive proof system and the first quantum alternating Turing machine: qAM proof system and qATM, respectively. Both are obtained from their classical counterparts (Arthur-Merlin proof…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-05-25 Abuzer Yakaryilmaz

From the minimal assumption of post-quantum semi-honest oblivious transfers, we build the first $\epsilon$-simulatable two-party computation (2PC) against quantum polynomial-time (QPT) adversaries that is both constant-round and black-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Nai-Hui Chia , Kai-Min Chung , Xiao Liang , Takashi Yamakawa

We study the extent to which it is possible to approximate the optimal value of a Unique Games instance in Fixed-Point Logic with Counting (FPC). Formally, we prove lower bounds against the accuracy of FPC-interpretations that map Unique…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jamie Tucker-Foltz

Quantum circuits are typically represented by a (ordered) sequence of gates over a set of virtual qubits. During compilation, the virtual qubits of the gates are assigned to the physical qubits of the underlying quantum hardware, a step…

We show the following hold, unconditionally unless otherwise stated, relative to a random oracle: - There are NP search problems solvable by quantum polynomial-time machines but not classical probabilistic polynomial-time machines. - There…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Takashi Yamakawa , Mark Zhandry