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The minimum distance is one of the most important combinatorial characterizations of a code. The maximum likelihood decoding problem is one of the most important algorithmic problems of a code. While these problems are known to be hard for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Qi Cheng

Classical probabilistic models of (noisy) quantum systems are not only relevant for understanding the non-classical features of quantum mechanics, but they are also useful for determining the possible advantage of using quantum resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 Iman Marvian

In a topological dynamical system the complexity of an orbit is a measure of the amount of information (algorithmic information content) that is necessary to describe the orbit. This indicator is invariant up to topological conjugation. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefano Galatolo

Low check weight is practically crucial code property for fault-tolerant quantum computing, which underlies the strong interest in quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes. Here, we explore the theory of weight-constrained stabilizer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Fuchuan Wei , Zhengyi Han , Austin Yubo He , Zimu Li , Zi-Wen Liu

The existence of complex (multiple-step) genetic adaptations that are "irreducible" (i.e., all partial combinations are less fit than the original genotype) is one of the longest standing problems in evolutionary biology. In standard…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-10-17 Meredith V. Trotter , Daniel B. Weissman , Grant I. Peterson , Kayla M. Peck , Joanna Masel

Quantum circuit complexity-a measure of the minimum number of gates needed to implement a given unitary transformation-is a fundamental concept in quantum computation, with widespread applications ranging from determining the running time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Kaifeng Bu , Roy J. Garcia , Arthur Jaffe , Dax Enshan Koh , Lu Li

Communication complexity is a fundamental aspect of information science, concerned with the amount of communication required to solve a problem distributed among multiple parties. The standard quantification of one-way communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Satyaki Manna , Anubhav Chaturvedi , Debashis Saha

Krylov complexity is an attractive measure for the rate at which quantum operators spread in the space of all possible operators under dynamical evolution. One expects that its late-time plateau would distinguish between integrable and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Ben Craps , Oleg Evnin , Gabriele Pascuzzi

A new type of local-check additive quantum code is presented. Qubits are associated with edges of a 2-dimensional lattice whereas the stabilizer operators correspond to the faces and the vertices. The boundary of the lattice consists of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Bravyi , A. Yu. Kitaev

Inspired by the close relationship between Kolmogorov complexity and unsupervised machine learning, we explore quantum circuit complexity, an important concept in quantum computation and quantum information science, as a pivot to understand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Xiaoguang Wang , Franco Nori

We study the computability and complexity of the exploration problem in a class of highly dynamic graphs: periodically varying (PV) graphs, where the edges exist only at some (unknown) times defined by the periodic movements of carriers.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Paola Flocchini , Bernard Mans , Nicola Santoro

We develop the first steps towards an analysis of geometry on the quantum spacetime proposed in [1]. The homogeneous elements of the universal differential algebra are naturally identified with operators living in tensor powers of Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Dorothea Bahns , Sergio Doplicher , Klaus Fredenhagen , Gherardo Piacitelli

Is undecidability a requirement for open-ended evolution (OEE)? Using methods derived from algorithmic complexity theory, we propose robust computational definitions of open-ended evolution and the adaptability of computable dynamical…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Santiago Hernández-Orozco , Francisco Hernández-Quiroz , Hector Zenil

We provide a framework to determine the upper bound to the complexity of a computing a given observable with respect to a Hamiltonian. By considering the Heisenberg evolution of the observable, we show that each Hamiltonian defines an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Igor Ermakov , Tim Byrnes , Oleg Lychkovskiy

Many computational problems are subject to a quantum speed-up: one might find that a problem having an O(n^3)-time or O(n^2)-time classic algorithm can be solved by a known O(n^1.5)-time or O(n)-time quantum algorithm. The question…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Harry Buhrman , Bruno Loff , Subhasree Patro , Florian Speelman

Noise is ubiquitous in quantum systems and is a major obstacle for the advancement of quantum information science. Noise-robust quantum control achieves high-fidelity operations by engineering the evolution path so that first-order noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Junkai Zeng , Xiu-Hao Deng

Evolutionary complexity is here measured by the number of trials/evaluations needed for evolving a logical gate in a non-linear medium. Behavioural complexity of the gates evolved is characterised in terms of cellular automata behaviour. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Andy Adamatzky , Larry Bull

We develop an intuitive geometric picture of quantum states, define a particular state distance, and derive a quantum speed limit (QSL) for open systems. Our QSL is attainable because any initial state can be driven to a final state by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Zi-yi Mai , Chang-shui Yu

We present a method for obtaining a hierarchy of rigorous bounds on the time-evolution of a quantum mechanical system from an arbitrary initial state, systematically generalizing Mandelstam-Tamm-like relations. For any fixed level in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Scott Lawrence , Brian McPeak , Duff Neill

The unitary dynamics of quantum systems can be modeled as a trajectory on a Riemannian manifold. This theoretical framework naturally yields a purely geometric interpretation of computational complexity for quantum algorithms, a notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Alberto Acevedo , Antonio Falco