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Complexity theory can be viewed as the study of the relationship between computation and applications, understood the former as complexity classes and the latter as problems. Completeness results are clearly central to that view. Many…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Flavio Ferrarotti , Senen Gonzalez , Klaus-Dieter Schewe , Jose Maria Turull-Torres

We investigate the power of quantum computers when they are required to return an answer that is guaranteed to be correct after a time that is upper-bounded by a polynomial in the worst case. We show that a natural generalization of Simon's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Gilles Brassard , Peter Hoyer

Quantum computers can potentially solve problems that are computationally intractable on a classical computer in polynomial time using quantum-mechanical effects such as superposition and entanglement. The N-Queens Problem is a notable…

The aim of the paper is to propose a bounded-error quantum polynomial time (BQP) algorithm for the max-bisection and the min-bisection problems. The max-bisection and the min-bisection problems are fundamental NP-hard problems. Given a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Ahmed Younes

We initiate a systematic study of the time complexity of quantum divide and conquer algorithms for classical problems. We establish generic conditions under which search and minimization problems with classical divide and conquer algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Jonathan Allcock , Jinge Bao , Aleksandrs Belovs , Troy Lee , Miklos Santha

Ordinary approach to quantum algorithm is based on quantum Turing machine or quantum circuits. It is known that this approach is not powerful enough to solve NP-complete problems. In this paper we study a new approach to quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Masanori Ohya , Igor V. Volovich

Windows have been introduce in \cite{BalGasq25} as a tool for designing polynomial algorithms to check satisfiability of a bimodal logic of weak-density. In this paper, after revisiting the ``folklore'' case of bimodal $\K4$ already treated…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Philippe Balbiani , Olivier Gasquet

The relationship between BQP and PH has been an open problem since the earliest days of quantum computing. We present evidence that quantum computers can solve problems outside the entire polynomial hierarchy, by relating this question to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Scott Aaronson

We show that a separation between the class of all problems that can efficiently be solved on a quantum computer and those solvable using probabilistic classical algorithms in polynomial time implies the generalized contextuality of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Farid Shahandeh

Constraint programming (CP) is a paradigm used to model and solve constraint satisfaction and combinatorial optimization problems. In CP, problems are modeled with constraints that describe acceptable solutions and solved with backtracking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Kyle E. C. Booth , Bryan O'Gorman , Jeffrey Marshall , Stuart Hadfield , Eleanor Rieffel

Machine learning is considered to be one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. Therefore, the search for quantum advantage of the quantum analogues of machine learning models is a key research goal. Here, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Jonas Jäger , Roman V. Krems

The graph isomorphism problem is theoretically interesting and also has many practical applications. The best known classical algorithms for graph isomorphism all run in time super-polynomial in the size of the graph in the worst case. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-26 David Rosenbaum

The computational complexity of simulating the dynamics of physical quantum systems is a central question at the interface of quantum physics and computer science. In this work, we address this question for the simulation of exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Lilith Zschetzsche , Refik Mansuroglu , Norbert Schuch

One can fix the randomness used by a randomized algorithm, but there is no analogous notion of fixing the quantumness used by a quantum algorithm. Underscoring this fundamental difference, we show that, in the black-box setting, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Scott Aaronson , DeVon Ingram , William Kretschmer

We prove that a variant of 2048, a popular online puzzle game, is PSPACE-Complete. Our hardness result holds for a version of the problem where the player has oracle access to the computer player's moves. Specifically, we show that for an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-08-28 Rahul Mehta

A quantum algorithm is known that solves an unstructured search problem in a number of iterations of order $\sqrt{d}$, where $d$ is the dimension of the search space, whereas any classical algorithm necessarily scales as $O(d)$. It is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. J. Cerf , L. K. Grover , C. P. Williams

Models of computations over the integers are equivalent from a computability and complexity theory point of view by the Church-Turing thesis. It is not possible to unify discrete-time models over the reals. The situation is unclear but…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Manon Blanc , Olivier Bournez

The outcomes of this paper are twofold. Implicit complexity. We provide an implicit characterization of polynomial time computation in terms of ordinary differential equations: we characterize the class PTIME of languages computable in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Olivier Bournez , Daniel S. Gracaa , Amaury Pouly

PPAD refers to a class of computational problems for which solutions are guaranteed to exist due to a specific combinatorial principle. The most well-known such problem is that of computing a Nash equilibrium of a game. Other examples…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul W. Goldberg

The Hamiltonian cycle problem (HCP), which is an NP-complete problem, consists of having a graph G with n nodes and m edges and finding the path that connects each node exactly once. In this paper we compare some algorithms to solve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Giuseppe Corrente , Carlo Vincenzo Stanzione , Vittoria Stanzione