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We study the fundamental problems of identity testing (goodness of fit), and closeness testing (two sample test) of distributions over $k$ elements, under differential privacy. While the problems have a long history in statistics, finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jayadev Acharya , Ziteng Sun , Huanyu Zhang

This work develops analytic methods to quantitatively demarcate quantum reality from its subset of classical phenomenon, as well as from the superset of general probabilistic theories. Regarding quantum nonlocality, we discuss how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 Elie Wolfe

We show that almost all n-bit Boolean functions have bounded-error quantum query complexity at least n/2, up to lower-order terms. This improves over an earlier n/4 lower bound of Ambainis, and shows that van Dam's oracle interrogation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Andris Ambainis , Arturs Backurs , Juris Smotrovs , Ronald de Wolf

Detection and quantification of entanglement in quantum resources are two key steps in the implementation of various quantum-information processing tasks. Here, we show that Bell-type inequalities are not only useful in verifying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 Yeong-Cherng Liang , Tamas Vertesi , Nicolas Brunner

We introduce a new model for studying quantum data structure problems -- the "quantum cell probe model". We prove a lower bound for the static predecessor problem in the address-only version of this model where we allow quantum parallelism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pranab Sen , S. Venkatesh

Self-testing is a phenomenon where the use of specific quantum states or measurements can be inferred solely from the correlations they generate. We introduce a universal method for conducting robustness analysis in the self-testing of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Shin-Liang Chen , Nikolai Miklin

Quantum samplers are believed capable of sampling efficiently from distributions that are classically hard to sample from. We consider a sampler inspired by the classical Ising model. It is nonadaptive and therefore experimentally amenable.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Animesh Datta

We present a unified framework for quantum sensitivity sampling, extending the advantages of quantum computing to a broad class of classical approximation problems. Our unified framework provides a streamlined approach for constructing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Lichen Zhang

The problem of distinguishing between a random function and a random permutation on a domain of size $N$ is important in theoretical cryptography, where the security of many primitives depend on the problem's hardness. We study the quantum…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Henry Yuen

We give new quantum algorithms for evaluating composed functions whose inputs may be shared between bottom-level gates. Let $f$ be an $m$-bit Boolean function and consider an $n$-bit function $F$ obtained by applying $f$ to conjunctions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Mark Bun , Robin Kothari , Justin Thaler

In this work we make progress in understanding the relationship between learning models with access to entangled, separable and statistical measurements in the quantum statistical query (QSQ) model. To this end, we show the following…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Vojtech Havlicek , Louis Schatzki

A gradient ascent method for optimal quantum control synthesis is presented that employs a gradient derived with respect to the coefficients of a functional basis expansion of the control. Restricting the space of allowable controls to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Dennis Lucarelli

We study the complexity of quantum query algorithms that make p queries in parallel in each timestep. This model is in part motivated by the fact that decoherence times of qubits are typically small, so it makes sense to parallelize quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Stacey Jeffery , Frederic Magniez , Ronald de Wolf

We propose a family of lower bounds for concurrence in quantum systems using mutually unbiased measurements, which prove more effective in entanglement estimation compared to existing methods. Through analytical and numerical examples, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yu Lu , Meng Su , Zhong-Xi Shen , Hong-Xing Wu , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

We present several new examples of speed-ups obtainable by quantum algorithms in the context of property testing. First, motivated by sampling algorithms, we consider probability distributions given in the form of an oracle $f:[n]\to[m]$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-13 Sourav Chakraborty , Eldar Fischer , Arie Matsliah , Ronald de Wolf

Symmetry plays a crucial role in quantum physics, dictating the behavior and dynamics of physical systems. In this paper, we develop a hypothesis-testing framework for quantum dynamics symmetry using a limited number of queries to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yu-Ao Chen , Chenghong Zhu , Keming He , Yingjian Liu , Xin Wang

The approximate degree of a Boolean function is the minimum degree of real polynomial that approximates it pointwise. For any Boolean function, its approximate degree serves as a lower bound on its quantum query complexity, and generically…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mark Bun , Nadezhda Voronova

We describe two procedures which, given access to one copy of a quantum state and a sequence of two-outcome measurements, can distinguish between the case that at least one of the measurements accepts the state with high probability, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Aram W. Harrow , Cedric Yen-Yu Lin , Ashley Montanaro

How can we use a quantum computer to detect the entanglement structure of a quantum state? Bouland et al. (2024) recently provided an algorithm that, given multiple input copies of the state, finds the "hidden cuts"-partitions into fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Petar Simidzija , Eugene Koskin , Elton Yechao Zhu , Michael Dascal , Maria Schuld

We study the quantum query complexity of two problems. First, we consider the problem of determining if a sequence of parentheses is a properly balanced one (a Dyck word), with a depth of at most $k$. We call this the $Dyck_{k,n}$ problem.…