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We present a set of efficiently implementable logical multi-qubit gates in concatenated quantum error correction codes using parity qubits. In particular, we show how fault-tolerant high-weight rotation gates of arbitrary angle can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Anette Messinger , Christophe Goeller , Wolfgang Lechner

We present a quasipolynomial-time algorithm for solving the weak membership problem for the convex set of separable, i.e. non-entangled, bipartite density matrices. The algorithm decides whether a density matrix is separable or whether it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Matthias Christandl , Jon Yard

We develop a family of quantum accreditation protocols for quantum circuits with non-Clifford two-qubit gates. The latter includes families of gates such as the fSim and XY families of gates, native to existing hardwares. We provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Andrew Jackson , Theodoros Kapourniotis , Animesh Datta

Quantum error correction (QEC) is considered a deciding component in enabling practical quantum computing. Stabilizer codes, and in particular topological surface codes, are promising candidates for implementing QEC by redundantly encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Josias Old , Stephan Tasler , Michael J. Hartmann , Markus Müller

We give a comprehensive characterization of the computational power of shallow quantum circuits combined with classical computation. Specifically, for classes of search problems, we show that the following statements hold, relative to a…

We show that any $n$-variate polynomial computable by a syntactically multilinear circuit of size $\operatorname{poly}(n)$ can be computed by a depth-$4$ syntactically multilinear ($\Sigma\Pi\Sigma\Pi$) circuit of size at most…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Mrinal Kumar , Rafael Oliveira , Ramprasad Saptharishi

In a sequence of seminal results in the 80's, Kaltofen showed that the complexity class VP is closed under taking factors. A natural question in this context is to understand if other natural classes of multivariate polynomials, for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Chi-Ning Chou , Mrinal Kumar , Noam Solomon

Topological states of matter are promising resources for composing fault-tolerant quantum computers, advancing beyond the limitations of current noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. To enable this progress, a deep understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 Takanori Sugimoto

In this paper we study the properties of two-qubit gates. We review the most common parameterizations for the local equivalence classes of two-qubit gates and the connections between them. We then introduce a new discrete local invariant,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laura Koponen , Ville Bergholm , Martti M. Salomaa

We provide an $\Omega(log(n))$ lower bound for the depth of any quantum circuit generating the unique groundstate of Kitaev's spherical code. No circuit-depth lower bound was known before on this code in the general case where the gates can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Dorit Aharonov , Yonathan Touati

We study the complexity of securely evaluating arithmetic circuits over finite rings. This question is motivated by natural secure computation tasks. Focusing mainly on the case of two-party protocols with security against malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-11-08 Yuval Ishai , Manoj Prabhakaran , Amit Sahai

We prove two new upper bounds for depth-2 linear circuits computing the $N$th disjointness matrix $D^{\otimes N}$. First, we obtain a circuit of size $O\big(2^{1.24485N}\big)$ over $\{0,1\}$. Second, we obtain a circuit of degree…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lixi Ye

We investigate the amount of noise required to turn a universal quantum gate set into one that can be efficiently modelled classically. This question is useful for providing upper bounds on fault tolerant thresholds, and for understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Virmani , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Quantum entanglement cannot be unlimitedly shared among arbitrary number of qubits. Larger the number of entangled pairs in an N-qubit system, smaller the degree of bi-partite entanglement is. We analyze a system of N qubits in which an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masato Koashi , Vladimir Buzek , Nobuyuki Imoto

This paper concerns the efficient implementation of quantum circuits for qudits. We show that controlled two-qudit gates can be implemented without ancillas and prove that the gate library containing arbitrary local unitaries and one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gavin K. Brennen , Stephen S. Bullock , Dianne P. O'Leary

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs), such as the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) of [Farhi, Goldstone, Gutmann, 2014], have seen intense study towards near-term applications on quantum hardware. A crucial parameter for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Lennart Bittel , Sevag Gharibian , Martin Kliesch

We computationally investigate the complete polytope of Bell inequalities for 2 particles with small numbers of possible measurements and outcomes. Our approach is limited by Pitowsky's connection of this problem to the computationally hard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Daniel Collins , Nicolas Gisin

This study presents a roadmap towards utilizing a single arbitrary gate for universal quantum computing. Since two decades ago, it has been widely accepted that almost any single arbitrary gate with qubit number $>2$ is universal. Utilizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Zhong-Yi Ni , Yu-Sheng Zhao , Jin-Guo Liu

The implementation of holonomic quantum computation on superconducting quantum circuits is challenging due to the general requirement of controllable complicated coupling between multilevel systems. Here we solve this problem by proposing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-26 Zheng-Yuan Xue , Jian Zhou , Yao-Ming Chu , Yong Hu

Integer octagonal constraints (a.k.a. ``Unit Two Variables Per Inequality'' or ``UTVPI integer constraints'') constitute an interesting class of constraints for the representation and solution of integer problems in the fields of constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-01 Roberto Bagnara , Patricia M. Hill , Enea Zaffanella