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The discovery of chaotic quantum circuits with (partially) solvable dynamics has played a key role in our understanding of non-equilibrium quantum matter and, at the same time, has helped the development of concrete platforms for quantum…

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The current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era is characterized by substantial errors and noise, which limit the practical feasibility of deep, many-qubit circuits. To address these constraints, quantum circuit cutting has emerged…

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We define and construct efficient depth-universal and almost-size-universal quantum circuits. Such circuits can be viewed as general-purpose simulators for central classes of quantum circuits and can be used to capture the computational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-04-16 Debajyoti Bera , Stephen Fenner , Frederic Green , Steve Homer

Quantum variational circuits have gained significant attention due to their applications in the quantum approximate optimization algorithm and quantum machine learning research. This work introduces a novel class of classical probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Gal Weitz , Lirandë Pira , Chris Ferrie , Joshua Combes

Despite fundamental interests in learning quantum circuits, the existence of a computationally efficient algorithm for learning shallow quantum circuits remains an open question. Because shallow quantum circuits can generate distributions…

We construct a quantum algorithm that creates the Laughlin state for an arbitrary number of particles $n$ in the case of filling fraction one. This quantum circuit is efficient since it only uses $n(n-1)/2$ local qudit gates and its depth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 J. I. Latorre , V. Picó , A. Riera

An $n$-qubit quantum circuit is said to be peaked if it has an output probability that is at least inverse-polynomially large as a function of $n$. We describe a classical algorithm with quasipolynomial runtime $n^{O(\log{n})}$ that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Sergey Bravyi , David Gosset , Yinchen Liu

We present a very general construction for quantum annealing protocols to solve Combinational Circuit Fault Diagnosis (CCFD) problems that restricts the evolution to the space of valid diagnoses. This is accomplished by using special local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Hannes Leipold , Federico M. Spedalieri

Unlike most classical algorithms that take an input and give the solution directly as an output, quantum algorithms produce a quantum circuit that works as an indirect solution to computationally hard problems. In the full quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yikai Mao , Shaswot Shresthamali , Masaaki Kondo

The vast and complicated large-qubit state space forbids us to comprehensively capture the dynamics of modern quantum computers via classical simulations or quantum tomography. Recent progress in quantum learning theory prompts a crucial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Yuxuan Du , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Dacheng Tao

The study of quantum circuits composed of commuting gates is particularly useful to understand the delicate boundary between quantum and classical computation. Indeed, while being a restricted class, commuting circuits exhibit genuine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Xiaotong Ni , Maarten Van den Nest

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize various fields, yet the execution of quantum programs necessitates an effective compilation process. This involves strategically mapping quantum circuits onto the physical qubits of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Tian Li , Xiao-Yue Xu , Chen Ding , Tian-Ci Tian , Wei-You Liao , Shuo Zhang , He-Liang Huang

Random quantum circuits have played a central role in establishing the computational advantages of near-term quantum computers over their conventional counterparts. Here, we use ensembles of low-depth random circuits with local connectivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Michael J. Gullans , Stefan Krastanov , David A. Huse , Liang Jiang , Steven T. Flammia

Understanding the complexity of quantum states and circuits is a central challenge in quantum information science, with broad implications in many-body physics, high-energy physics and quantum learning theory. A common way to model the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Oxana Shaya , Zoë Holmes , Christoph Hirche , Armando Angrisani

Any particular classical system and its quantum version are normally viewed as separate formulations that are strictly distinct. Our goal is to overcome the two separate languages and create a smooth and common procedure that provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 John R. Klauder

Boson sampling is a sampling task proven to be hard to simulate efficiently using classical computers under plausible assumptions, which makes it an appealing candidate for quantum supremacy. However, due to a large noise rate for near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Byeongseon Go , Changhun Oh , Liang Jiang , Hyunseok Jeong

Quantum circuit complexity-a measure of the minimum number of gates needed to implement a given unitary transformation-is a fundamental concept in quantum computation, with widespread applications ranging from determining the running time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Kaifeng Bu , Roy J. Garcia , Arthur Jaffe , Dax Enshan Koh , Lu Li

Recent breakthroughs have opened the possibility to intermediate-scale quantum computing with tens to hundreds of qubits, and shown the potential for solving classical challenging problems, such as in chemistry and condensed matter physics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Zhong-Xia Shang , Ming-Cheng Chen , Xiao Yuan , Chao-Yang Lu , Jian-Wei Pan

In communication complexity-like problems, previous studies have shown either an exponential quantum advantage or an unbounded quantum advantage with an exponentially large input set $\Theta(2^{n})$ bits with respect to classical…

The Swap gate is a ubiquitous tool for moving information on quantum hardware, yet it can be considered a classical operation because it does not entangle product states. Genuinely quantum operations could outperform Swap for the task of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Aniruddha Bapat , Andrew M. Childs , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Eddie Schoute