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Classically simulating the quantum contextual correlations produced by sequences of ideal measurements of compatible observables requires the measured system to have an internal memory. Computing the minimum amount of memory needed is, in…

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A quantum algorithm succeeds not because the superposition principle allows 'the computation of all values of a function at once' via 'quantum parallelism,' but rather because the structure of a quantum state space allows new sorts of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-17 Jeffrey Bub

Classical computers can simulate models of quantum computation with restricted input states. The identification of such states can sharpen the boundary between quantum and classical computations. Previous works describe simulable states of…

The current state of quantum computing is commonly described as the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum era. Available computers contain a few dozens of qubits and can perform a few dozens of operations before the inevitable noise erases all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Ijaz Ahamed Mohammad , Matej Pivoluska , Martin Plesch

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

Demonstrating quantum advantage has been a pressing challenge in the field. Most claimed quantum speedups rely on a subroutine in which classical information can be accessed in a coherent quantum manner, which imposes a crucial constraint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nhat A. Nghiem

The primary resource for quantum computation is Hilbert-space dimension. Whereas Hilbert space itself is an abstract construction, the number of dimensions available to a system is a physical quantity that requires physical resources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlton M. Caves , Ivan H. Deutsch , Robin Blume-Kohout

We give an operational definition of information-theoretic resources within a given multipartite classical or quantum correlation. We present our causal model that serves as the source coding side of this correlation and introduce a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Shuchan Wang , Gerhard Wunder

Quantum coherence, nonlocality, and contextuality are key resources for quantum advantage in metrology, communication, and computation. We introduce a graph-based approach to derive classicality inequalities that bound local,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Rafael Wagner , Rui Soares Barbosa , Ernesto F. Galvão

Quantum coherence allows for reduced-memory simulators of classical processes. Using recent results in single-shot quantum thermodynamics, we derive a minimal work cost rate for quantum simulators that is quasistatically attainable in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Samuel P. Loomis , James P. Crutchfield

Quantum advantage in computation refers to the existence of computational tasks that can be performed efficiently on a quantum computer but cannot be efficiently simulated on any classical computer. Identifying the precise boundary of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Cihan Okay

Contextuality is well known as a vital resource for locating the boundary between classical and quantum theories, as well as identifying tasks showing quantum advantage. In a surge of recent works [Schmid and Spekkens, Phys.Rev.X 8, 011015…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Xuan Fan , Ya Xiao , Yongjian Gu

Contextuality is a fundamental property of quantum theory and a critical resource for quantum computation. Here, we experimentally observe the arguably cleanest form of contextuality in quantum theory [A. Cabello \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Breno Marques , Johan Ahrens , Mohamed Nawareg , Adan Cabello , Mohamed Bourennane

Quantum processing unit (QPU) has to satisfy highly demanding quantity and quality requirements on its qubits to produce accurate results for problems at useful scales. Furthermore, classical simulations of quantum circuits generally do not…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wei Tang , Margaret Martonosi

A variety of tasks in quantum control, ranging from purification and cooling, to quantum stabilization and open-system simulation, rely on the ability to implement a target quantum channel over a specified time interval within prescribed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Francesco Ticozzi , Lorenza Viola

Contextuality and nonlocality are non-classical properties exhibited by quantum statistics whose implications profoundly impact both foundations and applications of quantum theory. In this paper we provide some insights into logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Leonardo Santos , Barbara Amaral

An operational definition of contextuality is introduced which generalizes the standard notion in three ways: (1) it applies to arbitrary operational theories rather than just quantum theory, (2) it applies to arbitrary experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 R. W. Spekkens

The non-classicality of single quantum systems can be formalised using the notion of contextuality. But can contextuality be convincingly demonstrated in an experiment, without reference to the quantum formalism? The operational approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Matthew F. Pusey , Lídia del Rio , Bettina Meyer

The primary resource for quantum computation is Hilbert-space dimension. Whereas Hilbert space itself is an abstract construction, the number of dimensions available to a system is a physical quantity that requires physical resources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robin Blume-Kohout , Carlton M. Caves , Ivan H. Deutsch

This work develops analytic methods to quantitatively demarcate quantum reality from its subset of classical phenomenon, as well as from the superset of general probabilistic theories. Regarding quantum nonlocality, we discuss how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 Elie Wolfe