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We consider quantum computations comprising only commuting gates, known as IQP computations, and provide compelling evidence that the task of sampling their output probability distributions is unlikely to be achievable by any efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-17 Michael J. Bremner , Richard Jozsa , Dan J. Shepherd

Quantum samplers are believed capable of sampling efficiently from distributions that are classically hard to sample from. We consider a sampler inspired by the classical Ising model. It is nonadaptive and therefore experimentally amenable.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Animesh Datta

We study a subclass of the Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial-time (IQP) circuit with a varying density of two-qubit gates. In addition to a known anticoncentration regime, we identify novel parameter conditions where the model is classically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Chae-Yeun Park , Michael J. Kastoryano

As research on building scalable quantum computers advances, it is important to be able to certify their correctness. Due to the exponential hardness of classically simulating quantum computation, straight-forward verification through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Iskren Vankov , Daniel Mills , Petros Wallden , Elham Kashefi

Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial-time (IQP) circuits are a candidate for demonstrating near-term quantum advantage, as their sampling task is believed to be classically hard in the ideal theoretical setting under standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Leonardo Placidi , Enrico Rinaldi , Keisuke Fujii , Chen-Yu Liu

We show that families of Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial (IQP) circuits corresponding to nontrivial Bell tests exhibit nonlocality. However, we also prove that this nonlocality can only be demonstrated using post-selection or nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Joel J. Wallman , Emily Adlam

Solving real-time quadratic programming (QP) is a ubiquitous task in control engineering, such as in model predictive control and control barrier function-based QP. In such real-time scenarios, certifying that the employed QP algorithm can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Liang Wu , Wei Xiao , Richard D. Braatz

Quantum computers are now on the brink of outperforming their classical counterparts. One way to demonstrate the advantage of quantum computation is through quantum random sampling performed on quantum computing devices. However, existing…

The 2-Forrelation problem provides an optimal separation between classical and quantum query complexity and is also the problem used for separating $\mathsf{BQP}$ and $\mathsf{PH}$ relative to an oracle. A natural question is therefore to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Quentin Buzet , André Chailloux

Boson sampling is a sub-universal model used to show quantum speed-up. However, the methods of validation to prove quantum speedup are not robust and accurate. All verification methods involve additional or little studied assumptions. Here,…

Graph states and hypergraph states are of wide interest in quantum information processing and foundational studies. Efficient verification of these states is a key to various applications. Here we propose a simple method for verifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Huangjun Zhu , Masahito Hayashi

Recently, there are more and more organizations offering quantum-cloud services, where any client can access a quantum computer remotely through the internet. In the near future, these cloud servers may claim to offer quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Xi Chen , Bin Cheng , Zhaokai Li , Xinfang Nie , Nengkun Yu , Man-Hong Yung , Xinhua Peng

As a measure of the 'closeness' of two quantum states, fidelity plays a fundamental role in quantum information theory. Fidelity estimation protocols try to strike a balance between information gleaned from an experiment, and the efficiency…

IQPopt is a software package designed to optimize large-scale instantaneous quantum polynomial circuits on classical hardware. By exploiting an efficient classical simulation algorithm for expectation value estimation, circuits with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Erik Armengol , Joseph Bowles

Between NISQ (noisy intermediate scale quantum) approaches without any proof of robust quantum advantage and fully fault-tolerant quantum computation, we propose a scheme to achieve a provable superpolynomial quantum advantage (under some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Louis Paletta , Anthony Leverrier , Alain Sarlette , Mazyar Mirrahimi , Christophe Vuillot

Graph states are entangled resource states for universal measurement-based quantum computation. Although matter qubits such as superconducting circuits and trapped ions are promising candidates to generate graph states, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Kazuki Akimoto , Shunji Tsuchiya , Ryosuke Yoshii , Yuki Takeuchi

Quantum computing offers transformative potential for simulating real-world materials, providing a powerful platform to investigate complex quantum systems across quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. In this work, we leverage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Mohammad Mirzakhani , Kyungsun Moon

Hypergraph states are generalizations of graph states where controlled-$Z$ gates on edges are replaced with generalized controlled-$Z$ gates on hyperedges. Hypergraph states have several advantages over graph states. For example, certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Tomoyuki Morimae , Yuki Takeuchi , Masahito Hayashi

Intermediate-scale quantum devices are becoming more reliable, and may soon be harnessed to solve useful computational tasks. At the same time, common classical methods used to verify their computational output become intractable due to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Johannes Knörzer , Daniel Malz , J. Ignacio Cirac

The widely held belief that BQP strictly contains BPP raises fundamental questions: Upcoming generations of quantum computers might already be too large to be simulated classically. Is it possible to experimentally test that these systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or , Elad Eban