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Suppose that a polynomial-time mixed-state quantum circuit, described as a sequence of local unitary interactions followed by a partial trace, generates a quantum state shared between two parties. One might then wonder, does this quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Patrick Hayden , Kevin Milner , Mark M. Wilde

We investigate quantitative extensions of modal logic and the modal mu-calculus, and study the question whether the tight connection between logic and games can be lifted from the qualitative logics to their quantitative counterparts. It…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Diana Fischer , Erich Grädel , Lukasz Kaiser

In this work we consider the interplay between multiprover interactive proofs, quantum entanglement, and zero knowledge proofs - notions that are central pillars of complexity theory, quantum information and cryptography. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Alex B. Grilo , William Slofstra , Henry Yuen

QMA (Quantum Merlin Arthur) is the class of problems which, though potentially hard to solve, have a quantum solution which can be verified efficiently using a quantum computer. It thus forms a natural quantum version of the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Tomoyuki Morimae , Daniel Nagaj , Norbert Schuch

We prove the existence of (one-way) communication tasks with a subconstant versus superconstant asymptotic gap, which we call "doubly infinite," between their quantum information and communication complexities. We do so by studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Zi-Wen Liu , Christopher Perry , Yechao Zhu , Dax Enshan Koh , Scott Aaronson

Here we study multiplayer linear games, a natural generalization of XOR games to multiple outcomes. We generalize a recently proposed efficiently computable bound, in terms of the norm of a game matrix, on the quantum value of 2-player…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Gláucia Murta , Ravishankar Ramanathan , Natália Móller , Marcelo Terra Cunha

Mermin and Peres showed that there are boolean constraint systems (BCSs) which are not satisfiable, but which are satisfiable with quantum observables. This has led to a burgeoning theory of quantum satisfiability for constraint systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Connor Paddock , William Slofstra

We initiate the systematic study of QMA algorithms in the setting of property testing, to which we refer as QMA proofs of proximity (QMAPs). These are quantum query algorithms that receive explicit access to a sublinear-size untrusted proof…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 Marcel Dall'Agnol , Tom Gur , Subhayan Roy Moulik , Justin Thaler

Many problems in compositional synthesis and verification of multi-agent systems -- such as rational verification and assume-guarantee verification in probabilistic systems -- reduce to reasoning about two-player multi-objective stochastic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Moritz Graf , Anthony Lin , Rupak Majumdar

Interactive-proof games model the scenario where an honest party interacts with powerful but strategic provers, to elicit from them the correct answer to a computational question. Interactive proofs are increasingly used as a framework to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Jing Chen , Samuel McCauley , Shikha Singh

Constraint satisfaction problems are a central pillar of modern computational complexity theory. This survey provides an introduction to the rapidly growing field of Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity, which includes the study of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Sevag Gharibian , Yichen Huang , Zeph Landau , Seung Woo Shin

Various practical problems within the class $\Sigma_{2}^P$ possess an unambiguity property, meaning that yes-instances correspond with a unique witness. The semantic class containing all unambiguous $\Sigma_{2}^P$ problems is denoted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Matan Gilboa , Paul W. Goldberg , Elias Koutsoupias , Noam Nisan

We prove that any perfect quantum strategy for the two-prover game encoding a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) can be simulated via a perfect classical strategy with an extra classical communication channel, whose size depends only on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Demian Banakh , Lorenzo Ciardo , Marcin Kozik , Jan Tułowiecki

Computing the excited states of a given Hamiltonian is computationally hard for large systems, but methods that do so using quantum computers scale tractably. This problem is equivalent to the PCA problem where we are interested in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 David Quiroga , Jason Han , Anastasios Kyrillidis

The local Hamiltonian problem is famously complete for the class QMA, the quantum analogue of NP. The complexity of its semi-classical version, in which the terms of the Hamiltonian are required to commute (the CLH problem), has attracted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Dorit Aharonov , Lior Eldar

A value of a CSP instance is typically defined as a fraction of constraints that can be simultaneously met. We propose an alternative definition of a value of an instance and show that, for purely combinatorial reasons, a value of an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Libor Barto , Marcin Kozik

Raghavendra (STOC 2008) gave an elegant and surprising result: if Khot's Unique Games Conjecture (STOC 2002) is true, then for every constraint satisfaction problem (CSP), the best approximation ratio is attained by a certain simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-01 Yuichi Yoshida

A cryptographic compiler introduced by Kalai et al. (STOC'23) converts any nonlocal game into an interactive protocol with a single computationally bounded prover. Although the compiler is known to be sound in the case of classical provers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Alexander Kulpe , Giulio Malavolta , Connor Paddock , Simon Schmidt , Michael Walter

A central question in quantum information theory and computational complexity is how powerful nonlocal strategies are in cooperative games with imperfect information, such as multi-prover interactive proof systems. This paper develops a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-11 Tsuyoshi Ito , Hirotada Kobayashi , Daniel Preda , Xiaoming Sun , Andrew C. -C. Yao

Research in quantum games has flourished during recent years. However, it seems that opinion remains divided about their true quantum character and content. For example, one argument says that quantum games are nothing but 'disguised'…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Azhar Iqbal