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For decades it is known that Quantum Computers might serve as a tool to solve a very specific kind of problems that have long thought to be incalculable. Some of those problems are of a combinatorial nature, with the quantum advantage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ulrich Armbrüster , Stefan Edelkamp , Gabriel Maresch , Erik Schulze

In this paper we show that the Mastermind Satisfiability Problem (MSP) is NP-complete. The Mastermind is a popular game which can be turned into a logical puzzle called Mastermind Satisfiability Problem in a similar spirit to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jeff Stuckman , Guo-Qiang Zhang

We consider game theory from the perspective of quantum algorithms. Strategies in classical game theory are either pure (deterministic) or mixed (probabilistic). We introduce these basic ideas in the context of a simple example, closely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 David A. Meyer

Citizen science methodologies have over the past decade been applied with great success to help solve highly complex numerical challenges. Here, we take early steps in the quantum physics arena by introducing a citizen science game, Quantum…

Quantum game theory is a multidisciplinary field which combines quantum mechanics with game theory by introducing non-classical resources such as entanglement, quantum operations and quantum measurement. By transferring two-player-two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Junichi Shimamura , Nobuyuki Imoto

We study the degree to which a character string, $Q$, leaks details about itself any time it engages in comparison protocols with a strings provided by a querier, Bob, even if those protocols are cryptographically guaranteed to produce no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Michael T. Goodrich

Enormous successes have been made by quantum algorithms during the last decade. In this paper, we combine the quantum game with the problem of data clustering, and then develop a quantum-game-based clustering algorithm, in which data points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Qiang Li , Yan He , Jing-ping Jiang

In quantum game theory, one of the most intriguing and important questions is, "Is it possible to get quantum advantages without any modification of the classical game?" The answer to this question so far has largely been negative. So far,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Jeongho Bang , Junghee Ryu , Marcin Pawłowski , B. S. Ham , Jinhyoung Lee

Quantum technologies, i.e., technologies benefiting from the features of quantum physics such as objective randomness, superposition, and entanglement, have enabled an entirely different way of distributing and processing information. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Lea Kopf , Markus Hiekkamäki , Shashi Prabhakar , Robert Fickler

A number of recent studies have focused on novel features in game theory when the games are played using quantum mechanical toolbox (entanglement, unitary operators, measurement). Researchers have concentrated in two-player-two strategy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junichi Shimamura , Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Nobuyuki Imoto

The last two decades have witnessed a rapid development of quantum information processing, a new paradigm which studies the power and limit of "quantum advantages" in various information processing tasks. Problems such as when quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Zhaohui Wei , Shengyu Zhang

I consider the natural infinitary variations of the games Wordle and Mastermind, as well as their game-theoretic variations Absurdle and Madstermind, considering these games with infinitely long words and infinite color sequences and…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Joel David Hamkins

Quantum mechanics courses focus mostly on its computational aspects. This alone does not provide the same depth of understanding as most physicists have of classical mechanics. The understanding of classical mechanics is significantly…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Tarun Biswas

Quantum secret sharing is well known as a method for players to share a classical secret for secret sharing in quantum mechanical ways. Most of the results associated with quantum secret sharing are based on pure multipartite entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Minjin Choi , Yonghae Lee , Soojoon Lee

In a nonlocal game, two noncommunicating players cooperate to convince a referee that they possess a strategy that does not violate the rules of the game. Quantum strategies allow players to optimally win some games by performing joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Jim Furches , Sarah Chehade , Kathleen Hamilton , Nathan Wiebe , Carlos Ortiz Marrero

Attention to the very physical aspects of information characterizes the current research in quantum computation, quantum cryptography and quantum communication. In most of the cases quantum description of the system provides advantages over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Edward W. Piotrowski , Jan Sladkowski

Games involving quantum strategies often yield higher payoff. Here, we study a practical realization of the three-player dilemma game using the superconductivity-based quantum processors provided by IBM Q Experience. We analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Pranav Kairon , Kishore Thapliyal , R. Srikanth , Anirban Pathak

We introduce a game to illustrate the principles of quantum mechanics using a qubit (or spin-first) approach, where students can experience and discover its puzzling features first-hand. Students take the role of particles and scientists.…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-01-24 Andrea López-Incera , Wolfgang Dür

We analyse the role of degree of entanglement for Vaidman's game in a setting where the players share a set of partially entangled three-qubit states. Our results show that the entangled states combined with quantum strategies may not be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Hargeet Kaur , Atul Kumar

The cryptographic task of secure multi-party (classical) computation has received a lot of attention in the last decades. Even in the extreme case where a computation is performed between $k$ mutually distrustful players, and security is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Yfke Dulek , Alex B. Grilo , Stacey Jeffery , Christian Majenz , Christian Schaffner