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We show that for all functions $t(n) \geq n$, every multitape Turing machine running in time $t$ can be simulated in space only $O(\sqrt{t \log t})$. This is a substantial improvement over Hopcroft, Paul, and Valiant's simulation of time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-26 R. Ryan Williams

We prove a square-root space simulation for deterministic multitape Turing machines, showing $\mathrm{TIME}[t]\subseteq \mathrm{SPACE}[O(\sqrt{t})]$ \emph{measured in tape cells over a fixed finite alphabet}. The key step is a Height…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Logan Nye

We give new algorithms for tree evaluation (S. Cook et al. TOCT 2012) in the catalytic-computing model (Buhrman et al. STOC 2014). Two existing approaches aim to solve tree evaluation in low space: on the one hand, J. Cook and Mertz (STOC…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Alexandra Henzinger , Edward Pyne , Seyoon Ragavan

The Tree Evaluation Problem ($\mathsf{TreeEval}$) is a computational problem originally proposed as a candidate to prove a separation between complexity classes $\mathsf{P}$ and $\mathsf{L}$. Recently, this problem has gained significant…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Vahid R. Asadi , Richard Cleve

Constant bit-size Transformers are known to be Turing complete, but existing constructions require $\Omega(s(n))$ chain-of-thought (CoT) steps per simulated Turing machine (TM) step, leading to impractical reasoning lengths. In this paper,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qian Li , Yuyi Wang

We give an O(sqrt n log n)-query quantum algorithm for evaluating size-n AND-OR formulas. Its running time is poly-logarithmically greater after efficient preprocessing. Unlike previous approaches, the algorithm is based on a quantum walk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-11 Ben W. Reichardt

The treewidth of a graph is a useful combinatorial measure of how close the graph is to a tree. We prove that a quantum circuit with $T$ gates whose underlying graph has treewidth $d$ can be simulated deterministically in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-12 Igor L. Markov , Yaoyun Shi

We study variable time search, a form of quantum search where queries to different items take different time. Our first result is a new quantum algorithm that performs variable time search with complexity $O(\sqrt{T}\log n)$ where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Andris Ambainis , Martins Kokainis , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

We define a class of stochastic processes based on evolutions and measurements of quantum systems, and consider the complexity of predicting their long-term behavior. It is shown that a very general class of decision problems regarding…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 John Watrous

Computer simulation with Monte Carlo is an important tool to investigate the function and equilibrium properties of many systems with biological and soft matter materials solvable in solvents. The appropriate treatment of long-range…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Zecheng Gan , Zhenli Xu

Given two rooted, ordered, and labeled trees $P$ and $T$ the tree inclusion problem is to determine if $P$ can be obtained from $T$ by deleting nodes in $T$. This problem has recently been recognized as an important query primitive in XML…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-19 Philip Bille , Inge Li Goertz

It has recently been shown that starting with a classical query algorithm (decision tree) and a guessing algorithm that tries to predict the query answers, we can design a quantum algorithm with query complexity $O(\sqrt{GT})$ where $T$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Salman Beigi , Leila Taghavi , Artin Tajdini

The continuous-time query model is a variant of the discrete query model in which queries can be interleaved with known operations (called "driving operations") continuously in time. Interesting algorithms have been discovered in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-06 R. Cleve , D. Gottesman , M. Mosca , R. D. Somma , D. L. Yonge-Mallo

We show a simple generalization of the quantum walk algorithm for search in backtracking trees by Montanaro (ToC 2018) to the case where vertices can have different times of computation. If a vertex $v$ in the tree of depth $D$ is computed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Jevgēnijs Vihrovs

We present an algorithm that given a linear program with $n$ variables, $m$ constraints, and constraint matrix $A$, computes an $\epsilon$-approximate solution in $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{rank(A)}\log(1/\epsilon))$ iterations with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford

In this paper, we present a method for the Hamiltonian simulation in the context of eigenvalue estimation problems which improves earlier results dealing with Hamiltonian simulation through the truncated Taylor series. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Ammar Daskin , Sabre Kais

In the \emph{$k$-Diameter-Optimally Augmenting Tree Problem} we are given a tree $T$ of $n$ vertices as input. The tree is embedded in an unknown \emph{metric} space and we have unlimited access to an oracle that, given two distinct…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Davide Bilò , Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Luca Pepè Sciarria

This paper introduces the notion of distributed verification without preprocessing. It focuses on the Minimum-weight Spanning Tree (MST) verification problem and establishes tight upper and lower bounds for the time and message complexities…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Liah Kor , Amos Korman , David Peleg

A classic data structure problem is to preprocess a string T of length $n$ so that, given a query $q$, we can quickly find all substrings of T with Hamming distance at most $k$ from the query string. Variants of this problem have seen…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jackson Bibbens , Levi Borevitz , Samuel McCauley

We provide practical simulation methods for scalar field theories on a quantum computer that yield improved asymptotics as well as concrete gate estimates for the simulation and physical qubit estimates using the surface code. We achieve…

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