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Quantum neural networks (QNNs) represent a pioneering intersection of quantum computing and deep learning. In this study, we unveil a fundamental convolution property inherent to QNNs, stemming from the natural parallelism of quantum gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Guangkai Qu , Zhimin Wang , Guoqiang Zhong , Yongjian Gu

Encryption schemes attempt to provide a means for entities to communicate confidentially over a public channel. Such schemes have been studied for centuries, and their use has become widespread. However, developments in the area of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Michael Stephen Brown

Program obfuscation aims to hide the inner workings of a program while preserving its functionality. In the quantum setting, recent works have obtained obfuscation schemes for specialized classes of quantum circuits. For instance, Bartusek,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Mi-Ying Huang , Er-Cheng Tang

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables Information-Theoretically Secure (ITS) key exchange, robust even against future quantum computing threats. However, a fundamental limitation of QKD is the requirement for an authenticated classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Nicolas Laurent-Puig , Mina Doosti , Adriano Innocenzi , Eleni Diamanti

Fully-homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables computation on encrypted data while maintaining secrecy. Recent research has shown that such schemes exist even for quantum computation. Given the numerous applications of classical FHE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Gorjan Alagic , Yfke Dulek , Christian Schaffner , Florian Speelman

Open quantum walks (OQWs) constitute a class of quantum walks whose dynamics are entirely driven by interactions with the environment. It is well known that OQWs provide a general framework for implementing dissipative quantum computation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Pedro Linck Maciel , Graeme Pleasance , Francesco Petruccione , Nadja K. Bernardes

Quantum cryptography is a rapidly-developing area which leverages quantum information to accomplish classically-impossible tasks. In many of these protocols, quantum states are used as long-term cryptographic keys. Typically, this is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Omri Shmueli , Mark Zhandry

One-way functions are widely used for encrypting the secret in public key cryptography, although they are regarded as plausibly one-way but have not been proven so. Here we discuss the public key cryptosystem based on the system of higher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Harry Yosh

Hardcore functions have been used as a technical tool to construct secure cryptographic systems; however, little is known on their quantum counterpart, called quantum hardcore functions. With a new insight into fundamental properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Akinori Kawachi , Tomoyuki Yamakami

Any particular classical system and its quantum version are normally viewed as separate formulations that are strictly distinct. Our goal is to overcome the two separate languages and create a smooth and common procedure that provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 John R. Klauder

Quantum computing (QC) holds the promise of revolutionizing problem-solving by exploiting quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement. It offers exponential speed-ups across various domains, from machine learning and security to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Suryansh Upadhyay , Rupshali Roy , Swaroop Ghosh

In the quest for quantum advantage, a central question is under what conditions can classical algorithms achieve a performance comparable to quantum algorithms--a concept known as dequantization. Random Fourier features (RFFs) have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Mehrad Sahebi , Alice Barthe , Yudai Suzuki , Zoë Holmes , Michele Grossi

Large-scale quantum computing is a significant threat to classical public-key cryptography. In strong "quantum access" security models, numerous symmetric-key cryptosystems are also vulnerable. We consider classical encryption in a model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Gorjan Alagic , Stacey Jeffery , Maris Ozols , Alexander Poremba

Forty years ago, Wiesner pointed out that quantum mechanics raises the striking possibility of money that cannot be counterfeited according to the laws of physics. We propose the first quantum money scheme that is (1) public-key, meaning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 Scott Aaronson , Paul Christiano

Continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) provide a valuable model for quantum transport, universal quantum computation and quantum spatial search, among others. Recently, the empowering role of new degrees of freedom in the Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Massimo Frigerio , Claudia Benedetti , Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

$P$-divisibility is a central concept in both classical and quantum non-Markovian processes; in particular, it is strictly related to the notion of information backflow. When restricted to a fixed commutative algebra generated by a complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Fabio Benatti , Dariusz Chruściński , Giovanni Nichele

Recent work by Bravyi et al. constructs a relation problem that a noisy constant-depth quantum circuit (QNC$^0$) can solve with near certainty (probability $1 - o(1)$), but that any bounded fan-in constant-depth classical circuit (NC$^0$)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Daniel Grier , Nathan Ju , Luke Schaeffer

In this article we investigate the possibility of encoding classical information onto multipartite quantum states in the distant laboratory framework. We show that for all states generated by Clifford operation there always exist such an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Yu Tanaka , Damian Markham , Mio Murao

We give a comprehensive characterization of the computational power of shallow quantum circuits combined with classical computation. Specifically, for classes of search problems, we show that the following statements hold, relative to a…

Weak coin flipping (WCF) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive for two-party secure computation, where two distrustful parties need to remotely establish a shared random bit whilst having opposite preferred outcomes. It is the strongest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Atul Singh Arora , Jérémie Roland , Chrysoula Vlachou