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At Crypto 2011, some of us had proposed a family of cryptographic protocols for key establishment capable of protecting quantum and classical legitimate parties unconditionally against a quantum eavesdropper in the query complexity model.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Aleksandrs Belovs , Gilles Brassard , Peter Hoyer , Marc Kaplan , Sophie Laplante , Louis Salvail

Black-box quantum-state preparation is a variant of quantum-state preparation where we want to construct an $n$-qubit state $|\psi_c\rangle \propto \sum_x c(x) |x\rangle$ with the amplitudes $c(x)$ given as a (quantum) oracle. This variant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Lorenzo Laneve

Let L be a language decided by a constant-round quantum Arthur-Merlin (QAM) protocol with negligible soundness error and all but possibly the last message being classical. We prove that if this protocol is zero knowledge with a black-box,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-19 Rahul Jain , Alexandra Kolla , Gatis Midrijanis , Ben W. Reichardt

We show that quantum states with "low stabilizer complexity" can be efficiently distinguished from Haar-random. Specifically, given an $n$-qubit pure state $|\psi\rangle$, we give an efficient algorithm that distinguishes whether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Sabee Grewal , Vishnu Iyer , William Kretschmer , Daniel Liang

Pseudorandom generators (PRGs) are a foundational primitive in classical cryptography, underpinning a wide range of constructions. In the quantum setting, pseudorandom quantum states (PRSs) were proposed as a potentially weaker assumption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Mohammed Barhoush

It is always possible to decide, with one-sided error, whether two quantum states are the same under a specific unitary transformation. However we show here that it is {\em impossible} to do so if the transformation is anti-linear and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chiu Fan Lee , Neil F. Johnson

Only a few classes of quantum algorithms are known which provide a speed-up over classical algorithms. However, these and any new quantum algorithms provide important motivation for the development of quantum computers. In this article new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-04 Lian-Ao Wu , Mark S. Byrd

In the near future, there will likely be special-purpose quantum computers with 40-50 high-quality qubits. This paper lays general theoretical foundations for how to use such devices to demonstrate "quantum supremacy": that is, a clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Scott Aaronson , Lijie Chen

Neuroscientists face challenges in analyzing high-dimensional neural recording data of dense functional networks. Without ground-truth reference data, finding the best algorithm for recovering neurologically relevant networks remains an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Skylar Chan , Wilson Smith , Kyla Gabriel

It is a long-standing open question in quantum complexity theory whether the definition of $\textit{non-deterministic}$ quantum computation requires quantum witnesses $(\textsf{QMA})$ or if classical witnesses suffice $(\textsf{QCMA})$. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Anand Natarajan , Chinmay Nirkhe

We discuss the current state of the art of Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG) and their possible applications in the search for quantum advantages. To this aim, we first discuss a possible way of benchmarking QRNG by applying them to…

We introduce Quantum Spectral Authentication (QSA), a primitive for verifying that a remote quantum endpoint still possesses a previously installed secret quantum resource, such as a hidden state or state-preparation capability, without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 S. P. Kish , H. J. Vallury , J. Pieprzyk , C. Thapa , S. Camtepe

Recently, quantum computing experiments have for the first time exceeded the capability of classical computers to perform certain computations -- a milestone termed "quantum computational advantage." However, verifying the output of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer

QMA (Quantum Merlin-Arthur) is the quantum analogue of the class NP. There are a few QMA-complete problems, most notably the ``Local Hamiltonian'' problem introduced by Kitaev. In this dissertation we show some new QMA-complete problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-19 Yi-Kai Liu

We identify a sub-class of BQP that captures certain structural commonalities among many quantum algorithms including Shor's algorithms. This class does not contain all of BQP (e.g. Grover's algorithm does not fall into this class). Our…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Richard J. Lipton , Kenneth W. Regan , Atri Rudra

Pseudorandom states (PRS) are an important primitive in quantum cryptography. In this paper, we show that subset states can be used to construct PRSs. A subset state with respect to $S$, a subset of the computational basis, is \[…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Nir Magrafta , Pei Wu

Authentication provides the trust people need to engage in transactions. The advent of physical keys that are impossible to copy promises to revolutionize this field. Up to now, such keys have been verified by classical challenge-response…

The Church-Turing thesis is one of the pillars of computer science; it postulates that every classical system has equivalent computability power to the so-called Turing machine. While this thesis is crucial for our understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 Ariel Bendersky , Gonzalo de la Torre , Gabriel Senno , Santiago Figueira , Antonio Acin

Full quantum tomography of high-dimensional quantum systems is experimentally infeasible due to the exponential scaling of the number of required measurements on the number of qubits in the system. However, several ideas were proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 G. I. Struchalin , Ya. A. Zagorovskii , E. V. Kovlakov , S. S. Straupe , S. P. Kulik

We define and study a variant of QMA (Quantum Merlin Arthur) in which Arthur can make multiple non-collapsing measurements to Merlin's witness state, in addition to ordinary collapsing measurements. By analogy to the class PDQP defined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Scott Aaronson , Sabee Grewal , Vishnu Iyer , Simon C. Marshall , Ronak Ramachandran