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We give arguments for the existence of a thermodynamics of quantum complexity that includes a "Second Law of Complexity". To guide us, we derive a correspondence between the computational (circuit) complexity of a quantum system of $K$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-07 Adam R. Brown , Leonard Susskind

Quantifying the complexity of quantum states that possess intrinsic structure, such as symmetry or encoding, in a fair manner constitutes a core challenge in the benchmarking of quantum technologies. This paper introduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 HongZheng Liu , YiNuo Tian , Zhiyue Wu

To explain black hole thermodynamics in quantum gravity, one must introduce constraints to ensure that a black hole is actually present. I show that for a large class of black holes, such ``horizon constraints'' allow the use of conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

The relationship between thermodynamics and the Lloyd bound on the holographic complexity for a black hole has been of interest. We consider $D$ dimensional anti-de Sitter black holes with hyperbolic geometry as well as black holes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-03 H. Babaei-Aghbolagh , Hosein Mohammadzadeh , Davood Mahdavian Yekta , Komeil Babaei Velni

Electrical circuits offer a unique platform to explore physical phenomena, from topology to non-Hermitian effects. Investigations of the fundamental properties of this metamaterial platform are crucial to distinguish observed/measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Haydar Sahin

The effects of a boundary on the circuit complexity are studied in two dimensional theories. The analysis is performed in the holographic realization of a conformal field theory with a boundary by employing different proposals for the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-15 Paolo Braccia , Aldo L. Cotrone , Erik Tonni

Nielsen's approach to quantum state complexity relates the minimal number of quantum gates required to prepare a state to the length of geodesics computed with a certain norm on the manifold of unitary transformations. For a bipartite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-18 Stefano Baiguera , Shira Chapman , Giuseppe Policastro , Tal Schwartzman

This paper is motivated by questions such as P vs. NP and other questions in Boolean complexity theory. We describe an approach to attacking such questions with cohomology, and we show that using Grothendieck topologies and other ideas from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joel Friedman

Quantifying quantum states' complexity is a key problem in various subfields of science, from quantum computing to black-hole physics. We prove a prominent conjecture by Brown and Susskind about how random quantum circuits' complexity…

$\newcommand{\EC}{\mathsf{EC}}\newcommand{\KW}{\mathsf{KW}}\newcommand{\DT}{\mathsf{DT}}\newcommand{\psens}{\mathsf{psens}} \newcommand{\calB}{{\cal B}} $ For a Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ computed by a circuit $C$ over a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Krishnamoorthy Dinesh , Samir Otiv , Jayalal Sarma

In this paper, we investigate computational power of threshold circuits and other theoretical models of neural networks in terms of the following four complexity measures: size (the number of gates), depth, weight and energy. Here the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Kei Uchizawa , Haruki Abe

Notions of circuit complexity and cost play a key role in quantum computing and simulation where they capture the (weighted) minimal number of gates that is required to implement a unitary. Similar notions also become increasingly prominent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 J. Eisert

We analyze a token-based Brownian circuit in which Brownian particles, coined `tokens,' move randomly by exploiting thermal fluctuations, searching for a path in multi-token state space corresponding to the solution of a given problem. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-24 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Yasuchika Ito , Dimitry Golubev , Ferdinand Peper

We consider the multiplicative complexity of Boolean functions with multiple bits of output, studying how large a multiplicative complexity is necessary and sufficient to provide a desired nonlinearity. For so-called $\Sigma\Pi\Sigma$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Magnus Gausdal Find , Joan Boyar

Black hole thermodynamics suggests that the maximum entropy that can be contained in a region of space is proportional to the area enclosing it rather than its volume. I argue that this follows naturally from loop quantum gravity and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 John Swain

In a quantum circuit, it is believed that complexity itself reaches a maximum of order exponential in the number of q-bits or equivalently exponential in entropy of the black hole. However, the current holographic proposals do not meet this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Shahrokh Parvizi , Mojtaba Shahbazi

Computation of circuit complexity has gained much attention in the Theoretical Physics community in recent times to gain insights into the chaotic features and random fluctuations of fields in the quantum regime. Recent studies of circuit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-12 Sayantan Choudhury , Sachin Panneer Selvam , K. Shirish

The compression of quantum circuits is a foundational challenge for near-term quantum computing, yet the principles governing circuit stability remain poorly understood. We investigate this problem through a large-scale numerical analysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Pilsung Kang

We present a constructive method to create quantum circuits that implement oracles $|x\rangle|y\rangle|0\rangle^k \mapsto |x\rangle|y \oplus f(x)\rangle|0\rangle^k$ for $n$-variable Boolean functions $f$ with low $T$-count. In our method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Giulia Meuli , Mathias Soeken , Earl Campbell , Martin Roetteler , Giovanni De Micheli

Pipelining is a design technique for logical circuits that allows for higher throughput than circuits in which multiple computations are fed through the system one after the other. It allows for much faster computation than architectures in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Ian Seet , Thomas E. Ouldridge , Jonathan P. K. Doye