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Variational quantum algorithms have been a promising candidate to utilize near-term quantum devices to solve real-world problems. The powerfulness of variational quantum algorithms is ultimately determined by the expressiveness of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Xiaokai Hou , Qingyu Li , Man-Hong Yung , Xusheng Xu , Zizhu Wang , Chu Guo , Xiaoting Wang

Given a universal gate set on two qubits, it is well known that applying random gates from the set to random pairs of qubits will eventually yield an approximately Haar-distributed unitary. However, this requires exponential time. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aram W. Harrow , Richard A. Low

We consider a Quantum Computer with n quantum-bits (`qubits'), where each qubit is coupled independently to an environment affecting the state in a dephasing or depolarizing way. For mixed states we suggest a quantification for the property…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth

We consider a generic elementary gate sequence which is needed to implement a general quantum gate acting on n qubits -- a unitary transformation with 4^n degrees of freedom. For synthesizing the gate sequence, a method based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikko Mottonen , Juha J. Vartiainen , Ville Bergholm , Martti M. Salomaa

The quantum orthogonal arrays define remarkable classes of multipartite entangled states called $k$-uniform states whose every reductions to $k$ parties are maximally mixed. We present constructions of quantum orthogonal arrays of strength…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Yajuan Zang , Zihong Tian , Shao-Ming Fei , Hui-Juan Zuo

We use a random search technique to find quantum gate sequences that implement perfect quantum state preparation or unitary operator synthesis with arbitrary targets. This approach is based on the recent discovery that there is a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Sahel Ashhab , Fumiki Yoshihara , Miwako Tsuji , Mitsuhisa Sato , Kouichi Semba

We present an algorithm for efficiently approximating of qubit unitaries over gate sets derived from totally definite quaternion algebras. It achieves $\varepsilon$-approximations using circuits of length $O(\log(1/\varepsilon))$, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Vadym Kliuchnikov , Alex Bocharov , Martin Roetteler , Jon Yard

Entanglement is one of the physical properties of quantum systems responsible for the computational hardness of simulating quantum systems. But while the runtime of specific algorithms, notably tensor network algorithms, explicitly depends…

This tutorial guides a competent programmer through the crafting of a quantum circuit simulator from scratch, even for readers with almost no prior experience in quantum computing. Open source simulators for quantum circuits already exist,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Michael J. McGuffin , Jean-Marc Robert , Kazuki Ikeda

We investigate circuit complexity to characterize chaos in multiparticle quantum systems. In the process, we take a stride to analyze open quantum systems by using complexity. We propose a new diagnostic of quantum chaos from complexity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 Arpan Bhattacharyya , S. Shajidul Haque , Eugene H. Kim

In this brief paper, we go through the theoretical steps of the spectral clustering on quantum computers by employing the phase estimation and the amplitude amplification algorithms. We discuss circuit designs for each step and show how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-24 Ammar Daskin

Estimating the entropy of probability distributions and quantum states is a fundamental task in information processing. Here, we examine the hardness of this task for the case of probability distributions or quantum states produced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Alexandru Gheorghiu , Matty J. Hoban

Parameterized quantum circuits play a key role in quantum computing. Measuring the suitability of such a circuit for solving a class of problems is needed. One such promising measure is the expressivity of a circuit, which is defined in two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Johanna Barzen , Frank Leymann

We characterize entanglement subject to its definition over real and complex, composite quantum systems. In particular, a method is established to assess quantum correlations with respect to a selected number system, illuminating the deeply…

In quantum mechanics, a state is an element of a Hilbert space whose dimension exponentially grows with the increase of the number of particles (or qubits, in quantum computing). The vague question "is this huge Hilbert space really there?"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-11 Doriano Brogioli

Quantum computer is extensively used in solving financial problems. Quantum amplitude estimation, an algorithm that aims to estimate the amplitude of a given quantum state, can be utilized to determine the expectation value of bonds as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Jaewoong Heo , Moonjoo Lee

We propose a type-theoretic framework for describing and proving properties of quantum computations, in particular those presented as quantum circuits. Our proposal is based on an observation that, in the polymorphic type system of Coq,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jacques Garrigue , Takafumi Saikawa

Quantum complexity quantifies the difficulty of preparing a state or implementing a unitary transformation with limited resources. Applications range from quantum computation to condensed matter physics and quantum gravity. We seek to…

Quantum computation offers the potential to solve fundamental yet otherwise intractable problems across a range of active fields of research. Recently, universal quantum-logic gate sets - the building blocks for a quantum computer - have…