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In this perspective, we discuss conditions under which it would be possible for a modest fault-tolerant quantum computer to realize a runtime advantage by executing a quantum algorithm with only a small polynomial speedup over the best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Ryan Babbush , Jarrod McClean , Michael Newman , Craig Gidney , Sergio Boixo , Hartmut Neven

Achieving a provable exponential quantum speedup for an important machine learning task has been a central research goal since the seminal HHL quantum algorithm for solving linear systems and the subsequent quantum recommender systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Allan Grønlund , Kasper Green Larsen

We design a quantum method for classical information compression that exploits the hidden subgroup quantum algorithm. We consider sequence data in a database with a priori unknown symmetries of the hidden subgroup type. We prove that data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Feiyang Liu , Kaiming Bian , Fei Meng , Wen Zhang , Oscar Dahlsten

Standard formulations of quantum theory are based on complex numbers: Quantum states can be in superpositions, with weights given by complex probability amplitudes. Motivated by quantum theory promising a range of practical advantages over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Thomas J. Elliott

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

Quantum algorithms have the potential to provide exponential speedups over some of the best known classical algorithms. These speedups may enable quantum devices to solve currently intractable problems such as those in the fields of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Ciarán Ryan-Anderson

The so-called welded tree problem provides an example of a black-box problem that can be solved exponentially faster by a quantum walk than by any classical algorithm. Given the name of a special ENTRANCE vertex, a quantum walk can find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Andrew M. Childs , Matthew Coudron , Amin Shiraz Gilani

Developing a systematic view of where quantum computers will outperform classical ones is important for researchers, policy makers and business leaders. But developing such a view is challenging because quantum advantage analyses depend not…

Motivated by the recent experimental demonstrations of quantum supremacy, proving the hardness of the output of random quantum circuits is an imperative near term goal. We prove under the complexity theoretical assumption of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Yasuhiro Kondo , Ryuhei Mori , Ramis Movassagh

Theoretical complexity is a vital subfield of computer science that enables us to mathematically investigate computation and answer many interesting queries about the nature of computational problems. It provides theoretical tools to assess…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohamed Ghanem , Dauod Siniora

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) offers a suite of computational tools that provide quantified shape features in high dimensional data that can be used by modern statistical and predictive machine learning (ML) models. In particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dominic Gold , Koray Karabina , Francis C. Motta

We prove lower bounds on the error probability of a quantum algorithm for searching through an unordered list of N items, as a function of the number T of queries it makes. In particular, if T=O(sqrt{N}) then the error is lower bounded by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Ronald de Wolf

Quantum algorithms based on quantum kernel methods have been investigated previously [1]. A quantum advantage is derived from the fact that it is possible to construct a family of datasets for which, only quantum processing can recognise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Sanjeev Naguleswaran

A quantum algorithm is exact if, on any input data, it outputs the correct answer with certainty (probability 1). A key question is: how big is the advantage of exact quantum algorithms over their classical counterparts: deterministic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 Andris Ambainis

Symmetry underlies many of the most effective classical and quantum learning algorithms, yet whether quantum learners can gain a fundamental advantage under symmetry-imposed structures remains an open question. Based on evidence that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Tuyen Nguyen , Mária Kieferová , Amira Abbas

Applying low-depth quantum neural networks (QNNs), variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are both promising and challenging in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era: Despite its remarkable progress, criticisms on the efficiency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Huan-Yu Liu , Zhao-Yun Chen , Tai-Ping Sun , Cheng Xue , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

Considering the difficult problem under classical computing model can be solved by the quantum algorithm in polynomial time, t-multiple discrete logarithm problems presented. The problem is non-degeneracy and unique solution. We talk about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Xiangqun Fu , Wansu Bao , Jianhong Shi , Xiang Wang

Quantum computing promises transformational gains for solving some problems, but little to none for others. For anyone hoping to use quantum computers now or in the future, it is important to know which problems will benefit. In this paper,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Sukwoong Choi , William S. Moses , Neil Thompson

In this work, we give two results that put new limits on distributed quantum advantage in the context of the LOCAL model of distributed computing. First, we show that there is no distributed quantum advantage for any linear program. Put…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Alkida Balliu , Corinna Coupette , Antonio Cruciani , Francesco d'Amore , Massimo Equi , Henrik Lievonen , Augusto Modanese , Dennis Olivetti , Jukka Suomela

Recent advancements in quantum computing have spurred substantial research into the application of quantum algorithms to combinatorial optimization problems. Among these challenges, the Total Domination Problem (TDP) emerges as a classic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Haoqian Pan , Hang Yuan , Yang Liu , Changhong Lu , Wanfang Chen , Shiyue Wang