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Quantum machine learning models have the potential to offer speedups and better predictive accuracy compared to their classical counterparts. However, these quantum algorithms, like their classical counterparts, have been shown to also be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Maurice Weber , Nana Liu , Bo Li , Ce Zhang , Zhikuan Zhao

Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) allows for a way to demonstrate quantum supremacy with the relatively modest experimental resources of squeezed light sources, linear optics, and photon detection. In a realistic experimental setting, numerous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Junheng Shi , Tim Byrnes

Random circuit sampling (RCS) remains one of the most competitive frameworks for demonstrating quantum advantage in near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. Unfortunately, absent error-correction, existing benchmarks to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Gregory Bentsen , Bill Fefferman , Soumik Ghosh , Michael J. Gullans , Yinchen Liu

We investigate the relationship between two distinct classical approaches to quantum systems: direct simulation from a classical description and sample-based learning from measurement data. While both tasks ultimately aim to reproduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 João Pedro Del Rey , Raúl O. Vallejos , Fernando de Melo

Quantum pseudorandomness has found applications in many areas of quantum information, ranging from entanglement theory, to models of scrambling phenomena in chaotic quantum systems, and, more recently, in the foundations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 John Bostanci , Jonas Haferkamp , Dominik Hangleiter , Alexander Poremba

The quantum supremacy experiment, such as Google Sycamore [Nature \textbf{574}, 505 (2019)], poses great challenge for classical verification due to the exponentially-increasing compute cost. Using a new-generation Sunway supercomputer…

A longstanding goal in quantum information science is to demonstrate quantum computations that cannot be feasibly reproduced on a classical computer. Such demonstrations mark major milestones: they showcase fine control over quantum systems…

Randomized protocols are procedures that incorporate probabilistic choices during their execution and they play a central role in quantum algorithms, spanning Hamiltonian simulation, noise mitigation, and measurement tasks. In practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Davide Cugini , Touheed Anwar Atif , Yigit Subasi

The goal of randomness extraction is to distill (almost) perfect randomness from a weak source of randomness. When the source yields a classical string X, many extractor constructions are known. Yet, when considering a physical randomness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-14 Mario Berta , Omar Fawzi , Stephanie Wehner

BosonSampling is the leading candidate for demonstrating quantum computational advantage in photonic systems. While we have recently seen many impressive experimental demonstrations, there is still a formidable distance between the…

Learning properties of quantum states from measurement data is a fundamental challenge in quantum information. The sample complexity of such tasks depends crucially on the measurement primitive. While shadow tomography achieves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jan Nöller , Viet T. Tran , Mariami Gachechiladze , Richard Kueng

With the rapid progress made by industry and academia, quantum computers with dozens of qubits or even larger size are being realized. However, the fidelity of existing quantum computers often sharply decreases as the circuit depth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Riling Li , Bujiao Wu , Mingsheng Ying , Xiaoming Sun , Guangwen Yang

Curve samplers are sampling algorithms that proceed by viewing the domain as a vector space over a finite field, and randomly picking a low-degree curve in it as the sample. Curve samplers exhibit a nice property besides the sampling…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Zeyu Guo

Scientists in quantum technology aspire to quantum advantage: a computational result unattainable with classical computers. Gaussian boson sampling experiment has been already claimed to achieve this goal. In this setup squeezed light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 A. S. Popova , A. N. Rubtsov

We describe how randomized benchmarking can be used to reconstruct the unital part of any trace-preserving quantum map, which in turn is sufficient for the full characterization of any unitary evolution, or more generally, any unital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Shelby Kimmel , Marcus P. da Silva , Colm A. Ryan , Blake R. Johnson , Thomas Ohki

Randomness is both a useful way to model natural systems and a useful tool for engineered systems, e.g. in computation, communication and control. Fully random transformations require exponential time for either classical or quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Aram W. Harrow , Michal Horodecki

We give a computational complexity argument against the feasibility of quantum computers. We identify a very low complexity class of probability distributions described by noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers, and explain why it will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Gil Kalai

Quantum computation is a promising emerging technology which, compared to conventional computation, allows for substantial speed-ups e.g. for integer factorization or database search. However, since physical realizations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Alwin Zulehner , Robert Wille

Classical-quantum computational complexity separations are an important motivation for the long-term development of digital quantum computers, but classical-quantum complexity equivalences are just as important in our present era of noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Jonathan E. Moussa

We show that several quantum circuit families can be simulated efficiently classically if it is promised that their output distribution is approximately sparse i.e. the distribution is close to one where only a polynomially small, a priori…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 Martin Schwarz , Maarten Van den Nest