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In this paper, we demonstrate that optimal control algorithms can be used to speed up the implementation of modules of quantum algorithms or quantum simulations in networks of coupled qubits. The gain is most prominent in realistic cases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-20 T. Schulte-Herbrueggen , A. K. Spoerl , N. Khaneja , S. J. Glaser

Quantum machine learning has the potential for broad industrial applications, and the development of quantum algorithms for improving the performance of neural networks is of particular interest given the central role they play in machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Jonathan Allcock , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Iordanis Kerenidis , Shengyu Zhang

One-time programs are modelled after a black box that allows a single evaluation of a function, and then self-destructs. Because software can, in principle, be copied, general one-time programs exists only in the hardware token model: it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Anne Broadbent , Gus Gutoski , Douglas Stebila

Pruhs and Woeginger prove the existence of FPTAS's for a general class of minimization and maximization subset selection problems. Without losing generality from the original framework, we prove how better asymptotic worst-case running…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Cédric Bentz , Pierre Le Bodic

In memory-constrained algorithms we have read-only access to the input, and the number of additional variables is limited. In this paper we introduce the compressed stack technique, a method that allows to transform algorithms whose space…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Luis Barba , Matias Korman , Stefan Langerman , Kunikiko Sadakane , Rodrigo Silveira

Quantum recursive programming has been recently introduced for describing sophisticated and complicated quantum algorithms in a compact and elegant way. However, implementation of quantum recursion involves intricate interplay between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Zhicheng Zhang , Mingsheng Ying

We study several questions related to diversifying search results. We give improved approximation algorithms in each of the following problems, together with some lower bounds. - We give a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Amir Abboud , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Euiwoong Lee , Pasin Manurangsi

We present an efficient, nearly optimal quantum algorithm for solving linear matrix differential equations, with applications to the simulation of open quantum systems and beyond. For unitary or dissipative dynamics, the algorithm computes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Sophia Simon , Dominic W. Berry , Rolando D. Somma

Quantum algorithms leverage the use of quantumly-controlled data in order to achieve computational advantage. This implies that the programs use constructs depending on quantum data and not just classical data such as measurement outcomes.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux , Mário Alberto Machado da Silva

In this work, we are interested in the detailed analysis of complexity aspects of both time and space that arises from the implementation of a quantum algorithm on a quantum based hardware. In particular, some steps of the implementation,…

Due to the significant progress made in the implementation of quantum hardware, efficient methods and tools to design corresponding algorithms become increasingly important. Many of these tools rely on functional representations of certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Lukas Burgholzer , Rudy Raymond , Indranil Sengupta , Robert Wille

Utilising quantum computing technology to enhance artificial intelligence systems is expected to improve training and inference times, increase robustness against noise and adversarial attacks, and reduce the number of parameters without…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Mykhailo Klymenko , Thong Hoang , Xiwei Xu , Zhenchang Xing , Muhammad Usman , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

We give a quantum approximation scheme (i.e., $(1 + \varepsilon)$-approximation for every $\varepsilon > 0$) for the classical $k$-means clustering problem in the QRAM model with a running time that has only polylogarithmic dependence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Ragesh Jaiswal

We achieve a quantum speed-up of fully polynomial randomized approximation schemes (FPRAS) for estimating partition functions that combine simulated annealing with the Monte-Carlo Markov Chain method and use non-adaptive cooling schedules.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Pawel Wocjan , Chen-Fu Chiang , Anura Abeyesinghe , Daniel Nagaj

We consider an algorithm to approximate complex-valued periodic functions $f(e^{i\theta})$ as a matrix element of a product of $SU(2)$-valued functions, which underlies so-called quantum signal processing. We prove that the algorithm runs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Jeongwan Haah

Quantum programs today are written at a low level of abstraction - quantum circuits akin to assembly languages - and the unitary parts of even advanced quantum programming languages essentially function as circuit description languages.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Chris Heunen , Louis Lemonnier , Christopher McNally , Alex Rice

This paper considers the fundamental convergence time for opportunistic scheduling over time-varying channels. The channel state probabilities are unknown and algorithms must perform some type of estimation and learning while they make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Michael J. Neely

Efficient simulation of large-scale quantum algorithms is pivotal yet challenging due to the exponential growth of the state space inherent in both Sch\"odinger-based and Feynman-based methods. While Feynman-based simulators can be highly…

One-time programs, computer programs which self-destruct after being run only once, are a powerful building block in cryptography and would allow for new forms of secure software distribution. However, ideal one-time programs have been…

We study the problem of constructing concurrent objects in a setting where $P$ processes run in parallel and interact through a shared memory that is subject to write contention. Our goal is to transform hardware primitives that are subject…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Michael A. Bender , Guy E. Blelloch , Martin Farach-Colton , Yang Hu , Rob Johnson , Rotem Oshman , Renfei Zhou