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Motivated by recent progress in quantum hardware and algorithms researchers have developed quantum heuristics for optimization problems, aiming for advantages over classical methods. To date, quantum hardware is still error-prone and…

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A central problem in quantum computing is to identify computational tasks which can be solved substantially faster on a quantum computer than on any classical computer. By studying the hardest such tasks, known as BQP-complete problems, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pawel Wocjan , Shengyu Zhang

We introduce a 2-round stochastic constraint-satisfaction problem, and show that its approximation version is complete for (the promise version of) the complexity class AM. This gives a `PCP characterization' of AM analogous to the PCP…

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We outline refined versions of two major quantum algorithms for performing principal component analysis and solving linear equations. Our methods are exponentially faster than their classical counterparts and even previous quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nhat A. Nghiem

I shall describe a general model-theoretic task to construct expansions of pseudofinite structures and discuss several examples of particular relevance to computational complexity. Then I will present one specific situation where finding a…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Jan Krajicek

Approximating a definite integral of product of cosines to within an accuracy of n binary digits where the integrand depends on input integers x[k] given in binary radix, is equivalent to counting the number of equal-sum partitions of the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Ohad Asor , Avishy Carmi

A hierarchical, reversible mapping between levels of tree structured computation, applicable for structuring the Quantum Computation algorithm for NP-complete problem is presented. It is proven that confining the state of a quantum computer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wojciech Burkot

In recent years, the expander decomposition method was used to develop many graph algorithms, resulting in major improvements to longstanding complexity barriers. This powerful hammer has led the community to (1) believe that most problems…

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In recent work by Johnson et al. (2022), a framework was described for the study of graph problems over classes specified by omitting each of a finite set of graphs as subgraphs. If a problem falls into the framework then its computational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Tala Eagling-Vose , Barnaby Martin , Daniel Paulusma , Siani Smith

Many practical problems in almost all scientific and technological disciplines have been classified as computationally hard (NP-hard or even NP-complete). In life sciences, combinatorial optimization problems frequently arise in molecular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 H. Jose Antonio Martin

Quantum Inverse Problem (QIP) is the problem of estimating an unknown quantum system $\rho$ from a set of measurements, whereas the classical counterpart is the Inverse Problem of estimating a distribution from a set of observations. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Ningping Cao , Jie Xie , Aonan Zhang , Shi-Yao Hou , Lijian Zhang , Bei Zeng

We investigate the problem of cryptanalysis as a problem belonging to the class NP. A class of problems UF is defined for which the time constructing any feasible solution is polynomial. The properties of the problems of NP, which may be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Anatoly D. Plotnikov

We define typical forcings encompassing many informal forcing arguments in bounded arithmetic and give general conditions for such forcings to produce models of the universal variant of relativized $T^1_2$. We apply this result to study the…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Moritz Müller

This paper argues that the requirement of applicableness of quantum linearity to any physical level from molecules and atoms to the level of macroscopic extensional world, which leads to a main foundational problem in quantum theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 Arkady Bolotin

In this article we address the computational hardness of optimally decoding a quantum stabilizer code. Much like classical linear codes, errors are detected by measuring certain check operators which yield an error syndrome, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-14 Pavithran Iyer , David Poulin

Quantum computers, that may become available one day, would impact many scientific fields, most notably cryptography since many asymmetric primitives are insecure against an adversary with quantum capabilities. Cryptographers are already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Marc Kaplan , Gaëtan Leurent , Anthony Leverrier , María Naya-Plasencia

Most continuous mathematical formulations arising in science and engineering can only be solved numerically and therefore approximately. We shall always assume that we're dealing with a numerical approximation to the solution. There are two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-10 A. Papageorgiou , J. F. Traub

This article belongs to a series on geometric complexity theory (GCT), an approach to the P vs. NP and related problems through algebraic geometry and representation theory. The basic principle behind this approach is called the flip. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-01-22 Ketan D. Mulmuley

Pseudorandom unitaries (PRUs), one of the key quantum pseudorandom notions, are efficiently computable unitaries that are computationally indistinguishable from Haar random unitaries. While there is evidence to believe that PRUs are weaker…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Prabhanjan Ananth , Aditya Gulati , Yao-Ting Lin

In this paper, we present a novel method for solving a class of quadratically constrained quadratic optimization problems using only additions and multiplications. This approach enables solving constrained optimization problems on private…

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