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The preparation of quantum states using short quantum circuits is one of the most promising near-term applications of small quantum computers, especially if the circuit is short enough and the fidelity of gates high enough that it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 D. Wecker , M. B. Hastings , M. Troyer

We investigate notions of complexity of states in continuous quantum-many body systems. We focus on Gaussian states which include ground states of free quantum field theories and their approximations encountered in the context of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-15 Shira Chapman , Michal P. Heller , Hugo Marrochio , Fernando Pastawski

Quantum circuit complexity has played a central role in recent advances in holography and many-body physics. Within quantum field theory, it has typically been studied in a Lorentzian (real-time) framework. In a departure from standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Josiah Couch , Yale Fan , Sanjit Shashi

We study circuit complexity for spatial regions in holographic field theories. We study analogues based on the entanglement wedge of the bulk quantities appearing in the "complexity = volume" and "complexity = action" conjectures. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-29 Cesar A. Agón , Matthew Headrick , Brian Swingle

We initiate a study of the complexity of quantum field theories (QFTs) by proposing a measure of information contained in a QFT and its observables. We show that from minimal assertions, one is naturally led to measure complexity by two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Thomas W. Grimm , Mick van Vliet

In the past decades, quantum entanglement has been recognized to be the basic resource in quantum information theory. A fundamental need is then the understanding its qualification and its quantification: Is the quantum state entangled, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-20 Szilárd Szalay

We initiate the study of sample-optimal quantum state tomography with minimal disturbance to the samples. Can we efficiently learn a precise description of a quantum state through sequential measurements of samples while at the same time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Josep Lumbreras , Mikhail Terekhov , Marco Tomamichel

Quantum circuit complexity-a measure of the minimum number of gates needed to implement a given unitary transformation-is a fundamental concept in quantum computation, with widespread applications ranging from determining the running time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Kaifeng Bu , Roy J. Garcia , Arthur Jaffe , Dax Enshan Koh , Lu Li

Learning quantum states from measurement data is a central problem in quantum information and computational complexity. In this work, we study the problem of learning to generate mixed states on a finite-dimensional lattice. Motivated by…

The computational complexity of a quantum state quantifies how hard it is to make. `Complexity geometry', first proposed by Nielsen, is an approach to defining computational complexity using the tools of differential geometry. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-01 Adam R. Brown , Leonard Susskind

Recent experiments completed by collaborating research groups from Google, NASA Ames, UC Santa Barbara, and others provided compelling evidence that quantum supremacy has finally been achieved on a superconducting quantum processor. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Sean Mullane

In this work, we initiate the study of the Minimum Circuit Size Problem (MCSP) in the quantum setting. MCSP is a problem to compute the circuit complexity of Boolean functions. It is a fascinating problem in complexity theory -- its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Nai-Hui Chia , Chi-Ning Chou , Jiayu Zhang , Ruizhe Zhang

Quantum state preparation is an important subroutine for quantum computing. We show that any $n$-qubit quantum state can be prepared with a $\Theta(n)$-depth circuit using only single- and two-qubit gates, although with a cost of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Xiao-Ming Zhang , Tongyang Li , Xiao Yuan

Topological quantum states cannot be created from product states with local quantum circuits of constant depth and are in this sense more entangled than topologically trivial states, but how entangled are they? Here we quantify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yichen Huang , Xie Chen

The vast complexity is a daunting property of generic quantum states that poses a significant challenge for theoretical treatment, especially in non-equilibrium setups. Therefore, it is vital to recognize states which are locally less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Markus Schmitt , Zala Lenarčič

Quantum state discrimination is an important problem in many information processing tasks. In this work we are concerned with finding its best possible sample complexity when the states are preprocessed by a quantum channel that is required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Hao-Chung Cheng , Christoph Hirche , Cambyse Rouzé

Quantum complexity is a measure of the minimal number of elementary operations required to approximately prepare a given state or unitary channel. Recently, this concept has found applications beyond quantum computing -- in studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Michał Oszmaniec , Marcin Kotowski , Michał Horodecki , Nicholas Hunter-Jones

The circuit complexity of time-evolved pure quantum states grows linearly in time for an exponentially long time. This behavior has been proven in certain models, is conjectured to hold for generic quantum many-body systems, and is believed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Yale Fan , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Andreas Karch , Shivan Mittal

The impossibility of simultaneously cloning non-orthogonal states lies at the foundations of quantum theory. Even when allowing for approximation errors, cloning an arbitrary unknown pure state requires as many initial copies as needed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Nikhil Bansal , Matthias C. Caro , Gaurav Mahajan

Recent years have seen significant activity on the problem of using data for the purpose of learning properties of quantum systems or of processing classical or quantum data via quantum computing. As in classical learning, quantum learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Leonardo Banchi , Jason Luke Pereira , Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone