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Consider the model of computation where we start with two halves of a $2n$-qubit maximally entangled state. We get to apply a universal quantum computation on one half, measure both halves at the end, and perform classical postprocessing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Dale Jacobs , Saeed Mehraban

This paper proves the polynomial equivalence of a broad class of definitions of quantum computational complexity. We study right-invariant metrics on the unitary group -- often called `complexity geometries' following the definition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Adam R. Brown

We give a corrected proof that if PP $\subseteq$ BQP/qpoly, then the Counting Hierarchy collapses, as originally claimed by [Aaronson 2006 arXiv:cs/0504048]. This recovers the related unconditional claim that PP does not have circuits of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Justin Yirka

The widely held belief that BQP strictly contains BPP raises fundamental questions: if we cannot efficiently compute predictions for the behavior of quantum systems, how can we test their behavior? In other words, is quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or , Elad Eban , Urmila Mahadev

We study the computational complexity of certain integrable quantum theories in 1+1 dimensions. We formalize a model of quantum computation based on these theories. In this model, distinguishable particles start out with known momenta and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-01 Saeed Mehraban

Inspired by connections to two dimensional quantum theory, we define several models of computation based on permuting distinguishable particles (which we call balls), and characterize their computational complexity. In the quantum setting,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-24 Scott Aaronson , Adam Bouland , Greg Kuperberg , Saeed Mehraban

One can fix the randomness used by a randomized algorithm, but there is no analogous notion of fixing the quantumness used by a quantum algorithm. Underscoring this fundamental difference, we show that, in the black-box setting, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Scott Aaronson , DeVon Ingram , William Kretschmer

The complexity of quantum computation remains poorly understood. While physicists attempt to find ways to create quantum computers, we still do not have much evidence one way or the other as to how useful these machines will be. The tools…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lance Fortnow

The complexity class NP is quintessential and ubiquitous in theoretical computer science. Two different approaches have been made to define "Quantum NP," the quantum analogue of NP: NQP by Adleman, DeMarrais, and Huang, and QMA by Knill,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomoyuki Yamakami

The widely held belief that BQP strictly contains BPP raises fundamental questions: Upcoming generations of quantum computers might already be too large to be simulated classically. Is it possible to experimentally test that these systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 Dorit Aharonov , Michael Ben-Or , Elad Eban

Post-selection, the power of discarding all runs of a computation in which an undesirable event occurs, is an influential concept introduced to the field of quantum complexity theory by Aaronson (Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2005).…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-05 François Le Gall , Harumichi Nishimura , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

Quantum machine learning seeks to leverage quantum computers to improve upon classical machine learning algorithms. Currently, robust uncertainty quantification methods remain underdeveloped in the quantum domain, despite the critical need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Douglas Spencer , Samual Nicholls , Michele Caprio

Near-term quantum computers are likely to have small depths due to short coherence time and noisy gates, and thus a potential way to use these quantum devices is using a hybrid scheme that interleaves them with classical computers. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Nai-Hui Chia , Kai-Min Chung , Ching-Yi Lai

The recent proliferation of NISQ devices has made it imperative to understand their computational power. In this work, we define and study the complexity class $\textsf{NISQ} $, which is intended to encapsulate problems that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Sitan Chen , Jordan Cotler , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Jerry Li

Measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) is a model of quantum computation, in which computation proceeds via adaptive single qubit measurements on a multi-qubit quantum state. It is computationally equivalent to the circuit model.…

A central problem in quantum computing is to identify computational tasks which can be solved substantially faster on a quantum computer than on any classical computer. By studying the hardest such tasks, known as BQP-complete problems, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pawel Wocjan , Shengyu Zhang

An important objective of research in counting complexity is to understand which counting problems are approximable. In this quest, the complexity class TotP, a hard subclass of #P, is of key importance, as it contains self-reducible…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Eleni Bakali , Aggeliki Chalki , Aris Pagourtzis

We investigate the dividing line between classical and quantum computational power in estimating properties of matrix functions. More precisely, we study the computational complexity of two primitive problems: given a function $f$ and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Santiago Cifuentes , Samson Wang , Thais L. Silva , Mario Berta , Leandro Aolita

We develop a framework for learning from noisy quantum experiments in which fault-tolerant devices access uncharacterized systems through noisy couplings. Introducing the complexity class $\textsf{NBQP}$ ("noisy BQP''), we model noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Jordan Cotler , Weiyuan Gong , Ishaan Kannan

I study the class of problems efficiently solvable by a quantum computer, given the ability to "postselect" on the outcomes of measurements. I prove that this class coincides with a classical complexity class called PP, or Probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Aaronson