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As quantum processors grow, new performance benchmarks are required to capture the full quality of the devices at scale. While quantum volume is an excellent benchmark, it focuses on the highest quality subset of the device and so is unable…

The long-term security of public blockchains strictly depends on the hardness assumptions of the underlying digital signature schemes. In the current scenario, most deployed cryptocurrencies and blockchain platforms rely on elliptic-curve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tushar Jain

Neutral atom arrays have recently emerged as a promising platform for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Based on these advances, including dynamically-reconfigurable connectivity and fast transversal operations, we present a low-overhead…

This paper presents a quantum search approach to combinatorial constraint satisfaction problems, demonstrated through the generation of magic squares. We reformulate magic square construction as a quantum search problem in which a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Rituparna R , Harsha Varthini , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is extensively benchmarked on synthetic random instances such as MaxCut, TSP, and SAT problems, but these lack semantic structure and human interpretability, offering limited insight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Gerhard Stenzel , Michael Kölle , Tobias Rohe , Julian Hager , Leo Sünkel , Maximilian Zorn , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

A noteworthy discovery is that the minimal evolution time is smaller for parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric systems compared to Hermitian setups. Moreover, there is a significant acceleration of two-qubit quantum entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 B. -B. Liu , Shi-Lei Su , Y. -L. Zuo , Qiongyi He , Gang Chen , F. Nori , H. Jing

Collision-resistant hashing, a fundamental primitive in modern cryptography, ensures that there is no efficient way to find distinct inputs that produce the same hash value. This property underpins the security of various cryptographic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Yassine Hamoudi , Qipeng Liu , Makrand Sinha

A new class of quantum cryptography (QC) protocols that are robust against the most general photon number splitting attacks in a weak coherent pulse implementation has been recently proposed. In this article we give a quite exhaustive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio Acin , Nicolas Gisin , Valerio Scarani

In the search with wildcards problem [Ambainis, Montanaro, Quantum Inf.~Comput.'14], one's goal is to learn an unknown bit-string $x \in \{-1,1\}^n$. An algorithm may, at unit cost, test equality of any subset of the hidden string with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Arjan Cornelissen , Nikhil S. Mande , Subhasree Patro , Nithish Raja , Swagato Sanyal

To detect frauds from some internal participants or external attackers, some verifiable threshold quantum secret sharing schemes have been proposed. In this paper, we present a new verifiable threshold structure based on a single qubit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Dan-Li Zhi , Zhi-Hui Li , Zhao-Wei Han , Li-Juan Liu

Today's experimental noisy quantum processors can compete with and surpass all known algorithms on state-of-the-art supercomputers for the computational benchmark task of Random Circuit Sampling [1-5]. Additionally, a circuit-based quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 K. Kechedzhi , S. V. Isakov , S. Mandrà , B. Villalonga , X. Mi , S. Boixo , V. Smelyanskiy

We present two quantum interior point methods for semidefinite optimization problems, building on recent advances in quantum linear system algorithms. The first scheme, more similar to a classical solution algorithm, computes an inexact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Brandon Augustino , Giacomo Nannicini , Tamás Terlaky , Luis F. Zuluaga

It is not possible, using standard lattice techniques in Euclidean space, to calculate the complete fermionic spectrum of a quantum field theory. Algorithms running on quantum computers have the potential to access the theory with real-time…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-09-27 Giovanni Pederiva , Alexei Bazavov , Brandon Henke , Leon Hostetler , Dean Lee , Huey-Wen Lin , Andrea Shindler

Quantum cryptanalysis is essential for evaluating the security of cryptographic systems against the threat of quantum computing. Recently, Shi {\it et al.} introduced a dedicated quantum attack on block cipher constructions based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Xiao-Fan Zhen , Zhen-Qiang Li , Jia-Cheng Fan , Su-Juan Qin , Fei Gao

We consider online algorithms for the $k$-server problem on trees. Chrobak and Larmore proposed a $k$-competitive algorithm for this problem that has the optimal competitive ratio. However, a naive implementation of their algorithm has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ruslan Kapralov , Kamil Khadiev , Joshua Mokut , Yixin Shen , Maxim Yagafarov

This experiment breaks a 5-bit elliptic curve cryptographic key using a Shor-style quantum attack. Executed on IBM's 133-qubit ibm_torino with Qiskit Runtime 2.0, a 15-qubit circuit, comprised of 10 logical qubits and 5 ancilla, interferes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Steve Tippeconnic

This paper proposes an ultra-low power crypto-engine achieving sub-pJ/bit energy and sub-1K$\mu$$m^2$ in 40nm CMOS, based on the Simon cryptographic algorithm. Energy and area efficiency are pursued via microarchitectural exploration,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Sachin Taneja , Massimo Alioto

So far, only the results on 3 qubit spaces (both on superconducting and ion-trap realisations of quantum processors) have beaten the classical unstructured search in the expected number of oracle calls using optimal protocols in both…

In quantum cryptosystems, variations in detector efficiency can be exploited to stage a successful attack. This happens when the efficiencies of Bob's two detectors are different functions of a control parameter accessible to Eve (e.g.,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Vadim Makarov , Johannes Skaar

Realistic fault-tolerant quantum computing at reasonable overhead requires two-qubit gates with the highest possible fidelity. Typically, an infidelity of $\lesssim 10^{-4}$ is recommended in the literature. Focusing on the phase-sensitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Reinhold Blümel , Andrii Maksymov , Ming Li