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We continue the program of proving circuit lower bounds via circuit satisfiability algorithms. So far, this program has yielded several concrete results, proving that functions in $\text{Quasi-NP} = \text{NTIME}[n^{(\log n)^{O(1)}}]$ and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Nikhil Vyas , Ryan Williams

Let $ACC \circ THR$ be the class of constant-depth circuits comprised of AND, OR, and MOD$m$ gates (for some constant $m > 1$), with a bottom layer of gates computing arbitrary linear threshold functions. This class of circuits can be seen…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Ryan Williams

We construct a family of distributions $\{\mathcal{D}_n\}_n$ with $\mathcal{D}_n$ over $\{0, 1\}^n$ and a family of depth-$7$ quantum circuits $\{C_n\}_n$ such that $\mathcal{D}_n$ is produced exactly by $C_n$ with the all zeros state as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Daniel Grier , Daniel M. Kane , Jackson Morris , Anthony Ostuni , Kewen Wu

We present a systematic study of how quantum circuit design, specifically the depth of the variational ansatz and the choice of quantum feature mapping, affects the performance of hybrid quantum-classical neural networks on a causal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Silvie Illésová , Tomasz Rybotycki , Piotr Gawron , Martin Beseda

Quantum computations promise the ability to solve problems intractable in the classical setting. Restricting the types of computations considered often allows to establish a provable theoretical advantage by quantum computations, and later…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Dmitri Maslov , Jin-Sung Kim , Sergey Bravyi , Theodore J. Yoder , Sarah Sheldon

In recent years, the quantum computing community has seen an explosion of novel methods to implement non-trivial quantum computations on near-term hardware. An important direction of research has been to decompose an arbitrary entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Harsha Nagarajan , Owen Lockwood , Carleton Coffrin

We present benchmarks of the parity transformation for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). We analyse the gate resources required to implement a single QAOA cycle for real-world scenarios. In particular, we consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Michael Fellner , Kilian Ender , Roeland ter Hoeven , Wolfgang Lechner

What is the power of constant-depth circuits with $MOD_m$ gates, that can count modulo $m$? Can they efficiently compute MAJORITY and other symmetric functions? When $m$ is a constant prime power, the answer is well understood: Razborov and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Brynmor Chapman , Ryan Williams

We show a relation, based on parallel repetition of the Magic Square game, that can be solved, with probability exponentially close to $1$ (worst-case input), by $1D$ (uniform) depth $2$, geometrically-local, noisy (noise below a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Kishor Bharti , Rahul Jain

We investigate the boundary between classical and quantum computational power. This work consists of two parts. First we develop new classical simulation algorithms that are centered on sampling methods. Using these techniques we generate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 M. Van den Nest

Reaching fault-tolerant quantum computation relies on the successful implementation of non-Clifford circuits with quantum error correction (QEC). In QEC, quantum gates and measurements encode quantum information into an error-protected…

As the rapidly evolving field of machine learning continues to produce incredibly useful tools and models, the potential for quantum computing to provide speed up for machine learning algorithms is becoming increasingly desirable. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Anthony M. Smaldone , Gregory W. Kyro , Victor S. Batista

Deutsch proposed two sorts of models of quantum computers, quantum Turing machines (QTMs) and quantum circuit families (QCFs). In this paper we explore the computational powers of these models and re-examine the claim of the computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harumichi Nishimura , Masanao Ozawa

A possible alternative to the standard model of measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) is offered by the sequential model of MBQC -- a particular class of quantum computation via ancillae. Although these two models are equivalent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Conor B. Gallagher , Alessandro Ferraro

In parity quantum computing, multi-qubit logical gates are implemented by single-qubit rotations on a suitably encoded state involving auxiliary qubits. Consequently, there is a correspondence between qubit count and the size of the native…

We introduce the notion of empirical coordination for quantum correlations. Quantum mechanics enables the calculation of probabilities for experimental outcomes, emphasizing statistical averages rather than detailed descriptions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Husein Natur , Uzi Pereg

Designing parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) that are expressive, trainable, and robust to hardware noise is a central challenge for quantum machine learning (QML) on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Gurinder Singh , Thaddeus Pellegrini , Kenneth M. Merz,

Quantum network coding is an effective solution for alleviating bottlenecks in quantum networks. We introduce a measurement-based quantum network coding scheme for quantum repeater networks (MQNC), and analyze its behavior based on results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Takaaki Matsuo , Takahiko Satoh , Shota Nagayama , Rodney Van Meter

Non-Hermitian (NH) quantum systems demonstrate striking differences from their Hermitian counterparts, leading to claims of NH advantage in areas ranging from metrology to entanglement generation. We show that in the context of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Brian Barch , Daniel Lidar

A path for efficient classical simulation of the DQC1 circuit that estimates the trace of an implementable unitary under the zero discord condition [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190502 (2010)] is presented. This result reinforces the status of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Shalin Jose , Akshay Kannan Sairam , Anil Shaji