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We give a simpler proof of one of the results of Kobayashi, Le Gall, and Nishimura [arXiv:1210.1290v2], which shows that any QMA protocol can be converted to a one-sided error protocol, in which Arthur and Merlin initially share a constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Attila Pereszlényi

Can one considerably shorten a proof for a quantum problem by using a protocol with a constant number of unentangled provers? We consider a frustration-free variant of the QCMA-complete Ground State Connectivity (GSCON) problem for a system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-02 Libor Caha , Daniel Nagaj , Martin Schwarz

Quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems are believed to be stronger than both their classical counterparts and ``stand-alone'' quantum computers when Arthur is assumed to operate in $\Omega(\log n)$ space. No hint of such an advantage over…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-14 A. C. Cem Say

What happens if in QMA the quantum channel between Merlin and Arthur is noisy? It is not difficult to show that such a modification does not change the computational power as long as the noise is not too strong so that errors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Tomoyuki Morimae , Keisuke Fujii , Harumichi Nishimura

We give a test that can distinguish efficiently between product states of n quantum systems and states which are far from product. If applied to a state psi whose maximum overlap with a product state is 1-epsilon, the test passes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Aram W. Harrow , Ashley Montanaro

BellQMA protocols are a subclass of multi-prover quantum Merlin-Arthur protocols in which the verifier is restricted to perform nonadaptive,unentangled measurements on the quantum states received from each Merlin. In this paper, we prove…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-04 Jing Chen , Andrew Drucker

We prove several new results concerning the pure quantum polynomial hierarchy (pureQPH). First, we show that QMA(2) is contained in pureQSigma2, that is, two unentangled existential provers can be simulated by competing existential and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Sabee Grewal , Dorian Rudolph

This paper proves that classical-witness quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems can achieve perfect completeness. That is, QCMA = QCMA1. This holds under any gate set with which the Hadamard and arbitrary classical reversible transformations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-29 Stephen P. Jordan , Hirotada Kobayashi , Daniel Nagaj , Harumichi Nishimura

Entanglement and interference are among the most fundamental properties of quantum mechanics. In this work, we investigate the role and power of interference in the context of detecting entanglement. We do so from a computational complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 William Gay , Fernando Granha Jeronimo

We investigate the structure of quantum proof systems by establishing collapse results that reveal simplifications in their complexity landscape. By extending classical theorems such as the Karp-Lipton theorem to quantum settings and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Kartik Anand , Kabgyun Jeong , Junseo Lee

We identify a formal connection between physical problems related to the detection of separable (unentangled) quantum states and complexity classes in theoretical computer science. In particular, we show that to nearly every quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 Gus Gutoski , Patrick Hayden , Kevin Milner , Mark M. Wilde

This paper studies whether quantum proofs are more powerful than classical proofs, or in complexity terms, whether QMA=QCMA. We prove three results about this question. First, we give a "quantum oracle separation" between QMA and QCMA. More…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Scott Aaronson , Greg Kuperberg

Decision problems are the problems whose answer is either YES or NO. As the quantum analogue of $\mathsf{NP}$ (nondeterministic polynomial time), the class $\mathsf{QMA}$ (quantum Merlin-Arthur) contains the decision problems whose YES…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Kai Sun , Zi-Jian Zhang , Fei Meng , Bin Cheng , Zhu Cao , Jin-Shi Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We present a protocol that transforms any quantum multi-prover interactive proof into a nonlocal game in which questions consist of logarithmic number of bits and answers of constant number of bits. As a corollary, this proves that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Zhengfeng Ji

It was shown in [Augusiak et al.,\;Phys. Rev. A \textbf{77}, 030301(R) (2008)] that discrimination between entanglement and separability in a two qubit state can be achieved by a measurement of a single observable on four copies of it.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Maciej Demianowicz

In this article we introduce a new complexity class called PQMA_log(2). Informally, this is the class of languages for which membership has a logarithmic-size quantum proof with perfect completeness and soundness which is polynomially close…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Hugue Blier , Alain Tapp

Quantum multiprover interactive proof systems with entanglement MIP* are much more powerful than its classical counterpart MIP (Babai et al. '91, Ji et al. '20): while MIP = NEXP, the quantum class MIP* is equal to RE, a class including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Yangjing Dong , Honghao Fu , Anand Natarajan , Minglong Qin , Haochen Xu , Penghui Yao

Quantum information and computation provide a fascinating twist on the notion of proofs in computational complexity theory. For instance, one may consider a quantum computational analogue of the complexity class \class{NP}, known as QMA, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Thomas Vidick , John Watrous

Quantum entanglement is a key enabling ingredient in diverse applications. However, the presence of unwanted adversarial entanglement also poses challenges in many applications. In this paper, we explore methods to "break" quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Fernando G. Jeronimo , Pei Wu

Multi Prover Interactive Proof systems (MIPs)were first presented in a cryptographic context, but ever since they were used in various fields. Understanding the power of MIPs in the quantum context raises many open problems, as there are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-26 Michael Ben-Or , Avinatan Hassidim , Haran Pilpel