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In this paper we show that sufficient multi-partite quantum entanglement helps in fair and unbiased election of a leader in a distributed network of processors with only linear classical communication complexity. We show that a total of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sudebkumar Prasant Pal , Sudhir Kumar Singh , Somesh Kumar

We present relation problems whose input size is $n$ such that they can be solved with no communication for entanglement-assisted quantum communication models, but require $\Omega(n)$ qubit communication for $2$-way quantum communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Atsuya Hasegawa , François Le Gall , Augusto Modanese

A major open problem in communication complexity is whether or not quantum protocols can be exponentially more efficient than classical protocols on _total_ Boolean functions in the two-party interactive model. The answer appears to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Yaoyun Shi , Yufan Zhu

This thesis explores foundational aspects of quantum information theory and quantum cryptography. First, we investigate quantum correlations in interactive settings, including the CHSH and graph isomorphism games. We aim to distinguish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Pierre Botteron

We establish novel connections between magic in quantum circuits and communication complexity. In particular, we show that functions computable with low magic have low communication cost. Our first result shows that the $\mathsf{D}\|$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Uma Girish , Alex May , Natalie Parham , Henry Yuen

Understanding the role that quantum entanglement plays as a resource in various information processing tasks is one of the crucial goals of quantum information theory. Here we propose a new perspective for studying quantum entanglement:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 L. Czekaj , M. Pawlowski , T. Vertesi , A. Grudka , M. Horodecki , R. Horodecki

We define nondeterministic communication complexity in the model of communication complexity with help of Babai, Hayes and Kimmel. We use it to prove logarithmic lower bounds on the NOF communication complexity of explicit graph functions,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Adi Shraibman

In this article we establish new bounds on the quantum communication complexity of distributed problems. Specifically, we consider the amount of communication that is required to transform a bipartite state into another, typically more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wim van Dam , Patrick Hayden

We give improved separations for the query complexity analogue of the log-approximate-rank conjecture i.e. we show that there are a plethora of total Boolean functions on $n$ input bits, each of which has approximate Fourier sparsity at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Arkadev Chattopadhyay , Ankit Garg , Suhail Sherif

We consider the communication complexity of the binary inner product function in a variation of the two-party scenario where the parties have an a priori supply of particles in an entangled quantum state. We prove linear lower bounds for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Richard Cleve , Wim van Dam , Michael Nielsen , Alain Tapp

I show that a simple multi-party communication task can be performed more efficiently with quantum communication than with classical communication, even with low detection efficiency $\eta$. The task is a communication complexity problem in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ernesto F. Galvao

In this work we revisit the Boolean Hidden Matching communication problem, which was the first communication problem in the one-way model to demonstrate an exponential classical-quantum communication separation. In this problem, Alice's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 João F. Doriguello , Ashley Montanaro

Quantum entanglement cannot be used to achieve direct communication between remote parties, but it can reduce the communication needed for some problems. Let each of k parties hold some partial input data to some fixed k-variable function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Wim van Dam , Peter Hoyer , Alain Tapp

Quantum resources, such as entanglement or quantum communication, offer significant communication advantages in information processing. We develop an operational framework for realizing these communication advantages in resource-constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Brian Doolittle , Felix Leditzky , Eric Chitambar

Communication games are crucial tools for investigating the limitations of physical theories. The communication complexity (CC) problem is a typical example, for which several distributed parties attempt to jointly calculate a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Zhih-Ahn Jia , Lu Wei , Yu-Chun Wu , Guang-Can Guo

The classical communication complexity of testing closeness of discrete distributions has recently been studied by Andoni, Malkin and Nosatzki (ICALP'19). In this problem, two players each receive $t$ samples from one distribution over…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Aleksandrs Belovs , Arturo Castellanos , François Le Gall , Guillaume Malod , Alexander A. Sherstov

A natural operational paradigm for distributed quantum and classical information processing involves local operations coordinated by multiple rounds of public communication. In this paper we consider the minimum number of communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Eric Chitambar , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

We consider classical and entanglement-assisted versions of a distributed computation scheme that computes nonlinear Boolean functions of a set of input bits supplied by separated parties. Communication between the parties is restricted to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Adam Henry Marblestone , Michel Devoret

Efficient distributed computing offers a scalable strategy for solving resource-demanding tasks such as parallel computation and circuit optimisation. Crucially, the communication overhead introduced by the allotment process should be…

We study shared randomness in the context of multi-party number-in-hand communication protocols in the simultaneous message passing model. We show that with three or more players, shared randomness exhibits new interesting properties that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Dmitry Gavinsky , Tsuyoshi Ito , Guoming Wang