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Decision-making in automated driving must consider interactions with surrounding agents to be effective. However, traditional methods often neglect or oversimplify these interactions because they are difficult to model and solve, which can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Karim Essalmi , Fernando Garrido , Fawzi Nashashibi

The application of the methods of quantum mechanics to game theory provides us with the ability to achieve results not otherwise possible. Both linear superpositions of actions and entanglement between the players' moves can be exploited.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian P. Flitney , Derek Abbott

In the field of Artificial Intelligence, traditional approaches to choosing moves in games involve the we of the minimax algorithm. However, recent research results indicate that minimizing may not always be the best approach. In this paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Dana Nau , Paul Purdom , Chun-Hung Tzeng

Concepts on quantum physics are generally difficult for the general public to understand and grasp due to its counter-intuitive nature and requirement for higher level of mathematical literacy. With categorical quantum mechanics (CQM),…

Popular Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Pak Shen Choong , Aqilah Rasat , Afiqa Nik Aimi , Nurisya Mohd Shah

We study a combinatorial game derived from a problem in the German National Mathematics Competition. In this game, two players take turns removing numbers from a finite set of natural numbers, aiming to satisfy a certain divisibility…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Tim Rammenstein

The last two decades have witnessed a rapid development of quantum information processing, a new paradigm which studies the power and limit of "quantum advantages" in various information processing tasks. Problems such as when quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Zhaohui Wei , Shengyu Zhang

Quantum game theory, whatever opinions may be held due to its abstract physical formalism, have already found various applications even outside the orthodox physics domain. In this paper we introduce the concept of a quantum auction, its…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-13 E. W. Piotrowski , J. Sladkowski

Main papers on quantum games are written by physicists for physicists, and the inevitable exploitation of physics jargon may create difficulties for mathematicians or economists. Our goal here is to make clear the physical content and to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Vassili Kolokoltsov

In this paper, we propose a Quantum variation of combinatorial games, generalizing the Quantum Tic-Tac-Toe proposed by Allan Goff. A combinatorial game is a two-player game with no chance and no hidden information, such as Go or Chess. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Paul Dorbec , Mehdi Mhalla

We propose a communication game in the sequential measurement scenario, involving a sender and two receivers with restricted communication among the latter parties. In the framework of the prepare-transform-measure scenario, we find a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Pritam Roy , Subhankar Bera , A. S. Majumdar , Shiladitya Mal

Gamification of quantum theory can provide new inroads into the subject: by allowing users to experience simulated worlds that manifest obvious quantum behaviors they can potentially build intuition for quantum phenomena. The Qubit Factory…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-06-19 Glen Evenbly

We consider 3XOR games with perfect commuting operator strategies. Given any 3XOR game, we show existence of a perfect commuting operator strategy for the game can be decided in polynomial time. Previously this problem was not known to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Adam Bene Watts , J. William Helton

We present a game-based approach to teach Bell inequalities and quantum cryptography at high school. The approach is based on kinesthetic activities and allows students to experience and discover quantum features and their applications…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-10-16 Andrea López-Incera , Andreas Hartmann , Wolfgang Dür

Pebble games are popular models for analyzing time-space trade-offs. In particular, the reversible pebble game is often applied in quantum algorithms like Grover's search to efficiently simulate classical computation on inputs in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Niels Kornerup , Jonathan Sadun , David Soloveichik

Quantum state targeting is a quantum game which results from combining traditional quantum state estimation with additional classical information. We consider a particular version of the game and show how it can be played with maximally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Bechmann-Pasquinucci

We contribute an analysis of situated visualizations in motion in video games for different types of data, with a focus on quantitative and categorical data representations. Video games convey a lot of data to players, to help them succeed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Federica Bucchieri , Lijie Yao , Petra Isenberg

Quantum mechanics is known to provide significant improvements in information processing tasks when compared to classical models. These advantages range from computational speeds-up to security improvements. A key question is where these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Leonardo Disilvestro , Damian Markham

An interesting iterative procedure is proposed to solve a two-player zero-sum Markov games. Under suitable assumption, the boundedness of the proposed iterates is obtained theoretically. Using results from stochastic approximation, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shreyas S R , Antony Vijesh

This paper studies a simple class of zero-sum games played by two competing quantum players: each player sends a mixed quantum state to a referee, who performs a joint measurement on the two states to determine the players' payoffs. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-21 Rahul Jain , John Watrous

This paper investigates the powers and limitations of quantum entanglement in the context of cooperative games of incomplete information. We give several examples of such nonlocal games where strategies that make use of entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-11 Richard Cleve , Peter Hoyer , Ben Toner , John Watrous