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Quantum query complexity is known to be characterized by the so-called quantum adversary bound. While this result has been proved in the standard discrete-time model of quantum computation, it also holds for continuous-time (or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Mathieu Brandeho , Jérémie Roland

We establish novel connections between magic in quantum circuits and communication complexity. In particular, we show that functions computable with low magic have low communication cost. Our first result shows that the $\mathsf{D}\|$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Uma Girish , Alex May , Natalie Parham , Henry Yuen

We generalize the celebrated isoperimetric inequality of Khot, Minzer, and Safra~(SICOMP 2018) for Boolean functions to the case of real-valued functions $f \colon \{0,1\}^d\to\mathbb{R}$. Our main tool in the proof of the generalized…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Hadley Black , Iden Kalemaj , Sofya Raskhodnikova

The Quantum Skip Gate (QSG) is a unitary circuit primitive that coherently superposes the execution and omission of an expensive quantum subroutine based on the outcome of a cheaper preceding subroutine, without mid-circuit measurement or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Kym Derriman

In this work, we study the phase estimation problem. We show an alternative, simpler and self-contained proof of query lower bounds. Technically, compared to the previous proofs [NW99, Bes05], our proof is considerably elementary.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-06 Yao-Ting Lin

Quantum memory is a scarce and costly resource, yet little is known about which learning tasks remain feasible under severe memory constraints. We study the problem of computing global properties of quantum sequences when quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Tathagata Gupta , Ankith Mohan , Shayeef Murshid , Vincent Russo , Jamie Sikora , Alice Zheng

We prove that for every decision tree, the absolute values of the Fourier coefficients of a given order $\ell\geq1$ sum to at most $c^{\ell}\sqrt{\binom{d}{\ell}(1+\log n)^{\ell-1}},$ where $n$ is the number of variables, $d$ is the tree…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Alexander A. Sherstov , Andrey A. Storozhenko , Pei Wu

Search-based software engineering (SBSE) addresses critical optimization challenges in software engineering, including the next release problem (NRP) and feature selection problem (FSP). While traditional heuristic approaches and integer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shuchang Wang , Xiaopeng Qiu , Yingxing Xue , Yanfu Li , Wei Yang

The general adversary dual is a powerful tool in quantum computing because it gives a query-optimal bounded-error quantum algorithm for deciding any Boolean function. Unfortunately, the algorithm uses linear qubits in the worst case, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Michael Czekanski , Shelby Kimmel , R. Teal Witter

This paper introduces a novel quantum algorithm that is able to classify a hierarchy of classes of imbalanced Boolean functions. The fundamental characteristic of imbalanced Boolean functions is that the proportion of elements in their…

Searching and sorting used as a subroutine in many important algorithms. Quantum algorithm can find a target item in a database faster than any classical algorithm. One can trade accuracy for speed and find a part of the database (a block)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vladimir E. Korepin , Brenno C. Vallilo

It has long been known that any Boolean function that depends on n input variables has both degree and exact quantum query complexity of Omega(log n), and that this bound is achieved for some functions. In this paper we study the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 Andris Ambainis , Ronald de Wolf

Recent years have seen significant activity on the problem of using data for the purpose of learning properties of quantum systems or of processing classical or quantum data via quantum computing. As in classical learning, quantum learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Leonardo Banchi , Jason Luke Pereira , Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

Searching a database is a central task in computer science and is paradigmatic of transport and optimization problems in physics. For an unstructured search, Grover's algorithm predicts a quadratic speedup, with the search time…

We construct a set of instances of 3SAT which are not solved efficiently using the simplest quantum adiabatic algorithm. These instances are obtained by picking random clauses all consistent with two disparate planted solutions and then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-30 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , David Gosset , Sam Gutmann , Harvey B. Meyer , Peter Shor

We provide two sufficient and necessary conditions to characterize any $n$-bit partial Boolean function with exact quantum 1-query complexity. Using the first characterization, we present all $n$-bit partial Boolean functions that depend on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Guoliang Xu , Daowen Qiu

Quantum query complexity studies the number of queries needed to learn some property of a black box. A closely related question is how well an algorithm can succeed with this learning task using only a fixed number of queries. In this work,…

We show an equivalence between 1-query quantum algorithms and representations by degree-2 polynomials. Namely, a partial Boolean function $f$ is computable by a 1-query quantum algorithm with error bounded by $\epsilon<1/2$ iff $f$ can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-01 Scott Aaronson , Andris Ambainis , Jānis Iraids , Martins Kokainis , Juris Smotrovs

Based on the recent breakthrough of Huang (2019), we show that for any total Boolean function $f$, the deterministic query complexity, $D(f)$, is at most quartic in the quantum query complexity, $Q(f)$: $D(f) = O(Q(f)^4)$. This matches the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Scott Aaronson , Shalev Ben-David , Robin Kothari , Avishay Tal

In this paper, we study the following variant of the junta learning problem. We are given oracle access to a Boolean function $f$ on $n$ variables that only depends on $k$ variables, and, when restricted to them, equals some predefined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Aleksandrs Belovs