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Understanding the relationship between various different forms of nonclassicality and their resource character is of great importance in quantum foundation and quantum information. Here, we discuss a quantitative link between quantum…

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Consumption of magic states promotes the stabilizer model of computation to universal quantum computation. Here, we propose three different classical algorithms for simulating such universal quantum circuits, and characterize them by…

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A central problem in quantum information is to determine the minimal physical resources that are required for quantum computational speedup and, in particular, for fault-tolerant quantum computation. We establish a remarkable connection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-30 Victor Veitch , Christopher Ferrie , David Gross , Joseph Emerson

Temporal quantum states generalize the multipartite density operator formalism to the time domain, enabling a unified treatment of quantum systems with both timelike and spacelike correlations. Despite a growing body of temporal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhian Jia , Kavan Modi , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

We propose a characterization and a quantification of general quantum correlation which is exhibited even by a separable (unentangled) mixed bipartite state in terms of the nonclassical values of the associated Kirkwood-Dirac (KD)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Agung Budiyono , Bobby E. Gunara , Bagus E. B. Nurhandoko , Hermawan K. Dipojono

While quantum computers are expected to yield considerable advantages over classical devices, the precise features of quantum theory enabling these advantages remain unclear. Contextuality--the denial of a notion of classical physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Nadish de Silva

We determine the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability (KDQ) distribution associated to the stochastic instances of internal energy variations for the quantum system and environment particles in coherent Markovian collision models. In the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Marco Pezzutto , Gabriele De Chiara , Stefano Gherardini

Quantum advantage is notoriously hard to find and even harder to prove. For example the class of functions computable with classical physics actually exactly coincides with the class computable quantum-mechanically. It is strongly believed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Howard Dale , David Jennings , Terry Rudolph

The Kirkwood-Dirac distribution, serving as an informationally complete representation of a quantum state, has recently garnered increasing attention. We investigate the Kirkwood-Dirac classicality with respect to mutually unbiased bases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Yan Liu , Zhihua Guo , Zhihao Ma , Shao-Ming Fei

Kirkwood-Dirac representations of quantum states are increasingly finding use in many areas within quantum theory. Usually, representations of this sort are only applied to provide a representation of quantum states (as complex functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 David Schmid , Roberto D. Baldijão , Yìlè Yīng , Rafael Wagner , John H. Selby

Quantum computers promise to solve important problems faster than conventional computers. However, unleashing this power has been challenging. In particular, design automation runs into (1) the probabilistic nature of quantum computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Stefan Hillmich , Richard Kueng , Igor L. Markov , Robert Wille

This is evident that the controllable quantum systems can be the reliable building blocks for Quantum computation. In reality we are witnessing the progress towards making the idea tractable enough, though optimistic but the threshold is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Nirupam Dutta

Negativity in certain quasiprobability representations is a necessary condition for a quantum computational advantage. Here we define a quasiprobability representation exhibiting this property with respect to quantum computations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Michael Zurel , Lawrence Z. Cohen , Robert Raussendorf

We present the generalization of the CNC formalism, based on closed and noncontextual sets of Pauli observables, to the setting of odd-prime-dimensional qudits. By introducing new CNC-type phase space point operators, we construct a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Michael Zurel , Arne Heimendahl

Quantum computers hold promise to enable efficient simulations of the properties of molecules and materials; however, at present they only permit ab initio calculations of a few atoms, due to a limited number of qubits. In order to harness…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 He Ma , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

Quantum computers promise significant speedups in solving problems intractable for conventional computers but, despite recent progress, remain limited in scaling and availability. Therefore, quantum software and hardware development heavily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Stefan Hillmich , Igor L. Markov , Robert Wille

We discuss models of computing that are beyond classical. The primary motivation is to unearth the cause of nonclassical advantages in computation. Completeness results from computational complexity theory lead to the identification of very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 Animesh Datta , Anil Shaji

Quantum kernel methods are a proposal for achieving quantum computational advantage in machine learning. They are based on a hybrid classical-quantum computation where a function called the quantum kernel is estimated by a quantum device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Ulysse Chabaud , Roohollah Ghobadi , Salman Beigi , Saleh Rahimi-Keshari

The Quantum Computer Condition (QCC) provides a rigorous and completely general framework for carrying out analyses of questions pertaining to fault-tolerance in quantum computers. In this paper we apply the QCC to the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerald Gilbert , Michael Hamrick , F. Javier Thayer , Yaakov S. Weinstein

While there is strong evidence for advantages of quantum over classical computation, the repertoire of computational primitives with proven or conjectured quantum advantage remains limited. A big challenge of quantum algorithmic design is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Tom Krüger , Wolfgang Mauerer