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This paper furthers existing evidence that quantum computers are capable of computations beyond classical computers. Specifically, we strengthen the collapse of the polynomial hierarchy to the second level if: (i) Quantum computers with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Simon C. Marshall , Scott Aaronson , Vedran Dunjko

The state complexity of the result of a regular operation is often positively correlated with the number of distinct transformations induced by letters in the minimal deterministic finite automaton of the input languages. That is, more…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Sylvie Davies

We review some semantic and syntactic complexity classes that were introduced to better understand the relationship between complexity classes P and NP. We also define several new complexity classes, some of which are associated with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-06-12 James L. Cox , Tayfun Pay

We study 'Merlinized' versions of the recently defined Guided Local Hamiltonian problem, which we call 'Guidable Local Hamiltonian' problems. Unlike their guided counterparts, these problems do not have a guiding state provided as a part of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Jordi Weggemans , Marten Folkertsma , Chris Cade

Whether the class QMA (Quantum Merlin Arthur) is equal to QMA1, or QMA with one-sided error, has been an open problem for years. This note helps to explain why the problem is difficult, by using ideas from real analysis to give a "quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-23 Scott Aaronson

The PCP Theorem is one of the most stunning results in computational complexity theory, a culmination of a series of results regarding proof checking it exposes some deep structure of computational problems. As a surprising side-effect, it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-30 Luke Mathieson

We demonstrate the superior capabilities of the recently proposed Lorentz quantum computer (LQC) compared to conventional quantum computers. We introduce an associated computational complexity class termed bounded-error Lorentz quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Qi Zhang , Biao Wu

This work investigates the relationships between quantum state synthesis complexity classes (a recent concept in computational complexity that focuses on the complexity of preparing quantum states) and traditional decision complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Hugo Delavenne , François Le Gall

We consider the task of verifying the correctness of quantum computation for a restricted class of circuits which contain at most two basis changes. This contains circuits giving rise to the second level of the Fourier Hierarchy, the lowest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Tommaso F. Demarie , Yingkai Ouyang , Joseph F. Fitzsimons

Generalizing earlier work of Delbaen and Haezendonck for given compound renewal process $S$ under a probability measure $P$ we characterize all probability measures $Q$ on the domain of $P$ such that $Q$ and $P$ are progressively equivalent…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Nikolaos D. Macheras , Spyridon M. Tzaninis

We show that the class QAM does not change even if the verifier's ability is restricted to only single-qubit measurements. To show the result, we use the idea of the measurement-based quantum computing: the verifier, who can do only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Tomoyuki Morimae

We consider quantum computations comprising only commuting gates, known as IQP computations, and provide compelling evidence that the task of sampling their output probability distributions is unlikely to be achievable by any efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-17 Michael J. Bremner , Richard Jozsa , Dan J. Shepherd

In some instances of study of quantum evolution of classical backgrounds it is considered inevitable to resort to non-perturbative methods at the price of treating the system semiclassically. We show that a fully quantum perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Gia Dvali , Lukas Eisemann

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

Quantum information and computation provide a fascinating twist on the notion of proofs in computational complexity theory. For instance, one may consider a quantum computational analogue of the complexity class \class{NP}, known as QMA, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Thomas Vidick , John Watrous

We examine a parameterized complexity class for randomized computation where only the error bound and not the full runtime is allowed to depend more than polynomially on the parameter, based on a proposal by Kwisthout in [15,16]. We prove…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Nils Donselaar

We study the following problem: with the power of postselection (classically or quantumly), what is your ability to answer adaptive queries to certain languages? More specifically, for what kind of computational classes $\mathcal{C}$, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Lijie Chen

We initiate the study of the relationship between two complexity classes, BQP (Bounded-Error Quantum Polynomial-Time) and PPAD (Polynomial Parity Argument, Directed). We first give a conjecture that PPAD is contained in BQP, and show a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-08-02 Yang D. Li

We discuss the concept of how entanglement changes with respect to different factorizations of the total algebra which describes the quantum states. Depending on the considered factorization a quantum state appears either entangled or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Walter Thirring , Reinhold A. Bertlmann , Philipp Köhler , Heide Narnhofer

The class of languages having polynomial-time classical or quantum interactive proof systems ($\mathsf{IP}$ or $\mathsf{QIP}$, respectively) is identical to $\mathsf{PSPACE}$. We show that $\mathsf{PSPACE}$ (and so $\mathsf{QIP}$) is subset…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Abuzer Yakaryılmaz