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Quantum noise in real-world devices poses a significant challenge in achieving practical quantum advantage, since accurately compiled and executed circuits are typically deep and highly susceptible to decoherence. To facilitate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Yuchen Guo , Shuo Yang

We study the counting version of the Boolean satisfiability problem #SAT using the ZH-calculus, a graphical language originally introduced to reason about quantum circuits. Using this, we generalize #SAT to a weighted variant we call…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tuomas Laakkonen , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , John van de Wetering

Higher-dimensional quantum systems (qudits) offer advantages in information encoding, error resilience, and compact gate implementations, and naturally arise in platforms such as superconducting and solid-state systems. However, realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Yule Mayevsky , Akram Youssry , Ritik Sareen , Gerardo A. Paz-Silva , Alberto Peruzzo

We prove that adiabatic computation is equivalent to standard quantum computation even when the adiabatic quantum system is restricted to be a set of particles on a one-dimensional chain. We give a construction that uses a 2-local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-19 Sandy Irani

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems are NP-hard problems and many real-world problems can be formulated as QUBO. Currently there are no algorithms known that can solve arbitrary instances of NP-hard problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Christian Münch , Fritz Schinkel , Sebastian Zielinski , Stefan Walter

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for operating quantum computers in the presence of noise. Here, we accurately decode arbitrary Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes via the maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT) problem. We show how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Mohammadreza Noormandipour , Tobias Haug

We present an exact $n$-qubit computational-basis amplitude encoder of real- or complex-valued data vectors of $d=\binom{n}{k}$ components into a subspace of fixed Hamming weight $k$. This represents a polynomial space compression of degree…

We propose a quantum analogue of Bluestein's algorithm (QBA) that implements an exact $N$-point Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) for arbitrary $N$. Our construction factors the $N$-dimensional QFT unitary into three diagonal quadratic-phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Nan-Hong Kuo , Renata Wong

While seemingly undesirable, it is not a surprising fact that there are certain problems for which quantum computers offer no computational advantage over their respective classical counterparts. Moreover, there are problems for which there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Yanlin Chen , Yilei Chen , Rajendra Kumar , Subhasree Patro , Florian Speelman

An algorithm for a particular problem may find some instances of the problem easier and others harder to solve, even for a fixed input size. We numerically analyse the relative hardness of MAX 2-SAT problem instances for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Puya Mirkarimi , Adam Callison , Lewis Light , Nicholas Chancellor , Viv Kendon

Rapid development in quantum computing leads to the appearance of several quantum applications. Quantum Fourier Transformation (QFT) sits at the heart of many of these applications. Existing work leverages SAT solver or heuristics to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Yuwei Jin , Xiangyu Gao , Minghao Guo , Henry Chen , Fei Hua , Chi Zhang , Eddy Z. Zhang

This paper gives a QMA (Quantum Merlin-Arthur) protocol for 3-SAT with two logarithmic-size quantum proofs (that are not entangled with each other) such that the gap between the completeness and the soundness is Omega(1/n polylog(n)). This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Francois Le Gall , Shota Nakagawa , Harumichi Nishimura

We prove that 2-Local Hamiltonian (2-LH) with Low Complexity problem is QCMA-complete by combining the results from the QMA-completeness[4] of 2-LH and QCMA-completeness of 3-LH with Low Complexity[6]. The idea is straightforward. It has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Ying-hao Chen

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a propositional logic problem of determining whether an assignment of variables satisfies a Boolean formula. Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated in Boolean SAT logic -- either as k-SAT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Robert Simon Fong , Yanming Song , Alexander Yosifov

In this paper we show that the performance of the quantum adiabatic algorithm is determined by phase transitions in underlying problem in the presence of transverse magnetic field $\Gamma$. We show that the quantum version of random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Knysh , V. N. Smelyanskiy

We investigate the computational complexity of the Local Hamiltonian (LH) problem and the approximation of the Quantum Partition Function (QPF), two central problems in quantum many-body physics and quantum complexity theory. Both problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Nai-Hui Chia , Yu-Ching Shen

A central result in the study of Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity is that the k-Local hamiltonian problem is QMA-complete. In that problem, we must decide if the lowest eigenvalue of a Hamiltonian is bounded below some value, or above…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Naïri Usher , Matty J. Hoban , Dan E. Browne

As the nascent field of quantum computing develops, an increasing number of quantum hardware modalities, such as superconducting electronic circuits, semiconducting spins, trapped ions, and neutral atoms, have become available for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Sebastian Brandhofer , Jinwoong Kim , Siyuan Niu , Nicholas T. Bronn

Quantum circuit complexity is a fundamental concept whose importance permeates quantum information, computation, many-body physics and high-energy physics. While extensively studied in closed systems, its characterization and behaviors in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhenyu Du , Zi-Wen Liu , Xiongfeng Ma

We investigate the performance of a quantum algorithm for solving classical 3-SAT problems. A cycle of post-selected measurements drives the computer's register monotonically toward a steady state which is correlated to the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Simon C. Benjamin , Liming Zhao , Joseph F. Fitzsimons