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This paper presents a novel distributed approach for solving AC power flow (PF) problems. The optimization problem is reformulated into a distributed form using a communication structure corresponding to a hypergraph, by which complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Xinliang Dai , Yingzhao Lian , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones , Veit Hagenmeyer

Solitude verification is arguably one of the simplest fundamental problems in distributed computing, where the goal is to verify that there is a unique contender in a network. This paper devises a quantum algorithm that exactly solves the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Seiichiro Tani

We study randomized and quantum efficiency lower bounds in communication complexity. These arise from the study of zero-communication protocols in which players are allowed to abort. Our scenario is inspired by the physics setup of Bell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-03 S. Laplante , V. Lerays , J. Roland

We formulate the Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow Problem (ACOPF) as a Linear Constrained Quadratic Program (LCQP) with many negative eigenvalues ($r$) and linear constraints, making it NP-hard. We propose two algorithms, Feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Masoud Barati

In this paper we elaborate a hybrid classical-quantum framework which allows one to model and solve heat and mass transfer problems occurring in electric contacts. We utilize special functions and Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd (HHL) quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Merey M. Sarsengeldin

Circuit complexity, defined as the minimum circuit size required for implementing a particular Boolean computation, is a foundational concept in computer science. Determining circuit complexity is believed to be a hard computational problem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Claudio Chamon , Andrei E. Ruckenstein , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Ran Canetti

In this paper we consider a model of quantum computation based on n atoms of laser-cooled and trapped linearly in a cavity and realize it as the n atoms Tavis-Cummings Hamiltonian interacting with n external (laser) fields. We solve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuyuki Fujii , Kyoko Higashida , Ryosuke Kato , Yukako Wada

We present the first direct comparison between gate-based quantum computing (GQC) and adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) paradigms for solving the AC power flow (PF) equations. The PF problem is reformulated as a combinatorial optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zeynab Kaseb , Matthias Moller , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

We explore the power of the unbounded Fan-Out gate and the Global Tunable gates generated by Ising-type Hamiltonians in constructing constant-depth quantum circuits, with particular attention to quantum memory devices. We propose two types…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jonathan Allcock , Jinge Bao , Joao F. Doriguello , Alessandro Luongo , Miklos Santha

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), which is a variational quantum algorithm, aims to give sub-optimal solutions of combinatorial optimization problems. It is widely believed that QAOA has the potential to demonstrate…

Distinguishing logarithmic depth quantum circuits on mixed states is shown to be complete for QIP, the class of problems having quantum interactive proof systems. Circuits in this model can represent arbitrary quantum processes, and thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-02 Bill Rosgen

We study the complexity of approximating the smallest eigenvalue of a univariate Sturm-Liouville problem on a quantum computer. This general problem includes the special case of solving a one-dimensional Schroedinger equation with a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arvid J. Bessen

A notorious open question in circuit complexity is whether Boolean operations of arbitrary arity can efficiently be expressed using modular counting gates only. H{\aa}stad's celebrated switching lemma yields exponential lower bounds for the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Benedikt Pago

Parity (XOR) classification requires detecting discrete, high-order feature interactions that smooth classical kernels cannot efficiently capture. We study how quantum kernel advantage depends on parity complexity, the number of features…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Tushar Pandey

In 2021, Broadbent and Kazmi developed a gate-teleportation-based protocol for computational indistinguishability obfuscation of quantum circuits. This protocol is efficient for Clifford+T circuits with logarithmically many T-gates, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Joshua Nevin

Recent work [M. J. Gullans et al., Physical Review X, 11(3):031066 (2021)] has shown that quantum error correcting codes defined by random Clifford encoding circuits can achieve a non-zero encoding rate in correcting errors even if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Andrew S. Darmawan , Yoshifumi Nakata , Shiro Tamiya , Hayata Yamasaki

Optimizing recessed-gate AlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMTs requires accurate multi-characteristic models, but experimental semiconductor datasets remain costly and encode process-induced variability that simulations cannot faithfully reproduce. This work…

The local Hamiltonian (LH) problem is the canonical $\mathsf{QMA}$-complete problem introduced by Kitaev. In this paper, we show its hardness in a very strong sense: we show that the 3-local Hamiltonian problem on $n$ qubits cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Nai-Hui Chia , Atsuya Hasegawa , François Le Gall , Yu-Ching Shen

A recent and active line of work achieves tight lower bounds for fundamental problems under the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH). A celebrated result of Backurs and Indyk (STOC'15) proves that the Edit Distance of two sequences of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Amir Abboud , Thomas Dueholm Hansen , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Ryan Williams