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Randomness is both a useful way to model natural systems and a useful tool for engineered systems, e.g. in computation, communication and control. Fully random transformations require exponential time for either classical or quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Aram W. Harrow , Michal Horodecki

A randomized algorithm for a search problem is *pseudodeterministic* if it produces a fixed canonical solution to the search problem with high probability. In their seminal work on the topic, Gat and Goldwasser posed as their main open…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Lijie Chen , Zhenjian Lu , Igor C. Oliveira , Hanlin Ren , Rahul Santhanam

Given a universal gate set on two qubits, it is well known that applying random gates from the set to random pairs of qubits will eventually yield an approximately Haar-distributed unitary. However, this requires exponential time. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aram W. Harrow , Richard A. Low

The capacity to randomly pick a unitary across the whole unitary group is a powerful tool across physics and quantum information. A unitary $t$-design is designed to tackle this challenge in an efficient way, yet constructions to date rely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Rawad Mezher , Joe Ghalbouni , Joseph Dgheim , Damian Markham

In this work, we propose an algorithm to simulate rare events for electronic circuit design. Our approach heavily relies on a smart use of importance sampling, which enables us to tackle probabilities of the magnitude 10 --10. Not only can…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Xavier Jonsson , Jérôme Lelong

Quantum communication with systems of dimension larger than two provides advantages in information processing tasks. Examples include higher rates of key distribution and random number generation. The main disadvantage of using such…

Recent breakthroughs in generative machine learning, powered by massive computational resources, have demonstrated unprecedented human-like capabilities. While beyond-classical quantum experiments can generate samples from classically…

We show the following hold, unconditionally unless otherwise stated, relative to a random oracle: - There are NP search problems solvable by quantum polynomial-time machines but not classical probabilistic polynomial-time machines. - There…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Takashi Yamakawa , Mark Zhandry

Quantum computers are now on the brink of outperforming their classical counterparts. One way to demonstrate the advantage of quantum computation is through quantum random sampling performed on quantum computing devices. However, existing…

In the past decade, sparse principal component analysis has emerged as an archetypal problem for illustrating statistical-computational tradeoffs. This trend has largely been driven by a line of research aiming to characterize the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Matthew Brennan , Guy Bresler

Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) have been broadly used as a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning scheme to accomplish generative tasks. However, whether PQCs have better expressive power than classical generative neural networks,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yuxuan Du , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao

A central problem in quantum computation is to understand which quantum circuits are useful for exponential speed-ups over classical computation. We address this question in the setting of query complexity and show that for almost any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Michal Horodecki

The generation of certifiable randomness is the most fundamental information-theoretic task that meaningfully separates quantum devices from their classical counterparts. We propose a protocol for exponential certified randomness expansion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-14 Matthew Coudron , Jalex Stark , Thomas Vidick

A quantum circuit must be preprocessed before implementing on NISQ devices due to the connectivity constraint. Quantum circuit mapping (QCM) transforms the circuit into an equivalent one that is compliant with the NISQ device's architecture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Pengcheng Zhu , Shenggen Zheng , Lihua Wei , Xueyun Cheng , Zhijin Guan , Shiguang Feng

Demonstrating a quantum computational speedup is a crucial milestone for near-term quantum technology. Recently, quantum simulation architectures have been proposed that have the potential to show such a quantum advantage, based on commonly…

Stochasticity is ubiquitous in the world around us. However, our predominant computing paradigm is deterministic. Random number generation (RNG) can be a computationally inefficient operation in this system especially for larger workloads.…

We prove new lower bounds on the growth of robust quantum circuit complexity -- the minimal number of gates $C_{\delta}(U)$ to approximate a unitary $U$ up to an error of $\delta$ in operator norm distance. More precisely we show two bounds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Jonas Haferkamp

We revisit known constructions of efficient learning algorithms from various notions of constructive circuit lower bounds such as distinguishers breaking pseudorandom generators or efficient witnessing algorithms which find errors of small…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ján Pich

Quantum pseudorandomness, also known as unitary designs, comprise a powerful resource for quantum computation and quantum engineering. While it is known in theory that pseudorandom unitary operators can be constructed efficiently, realizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Jun Li , Zhihuang Luo , Tao Xin , Hengyan Wang , David Kribs , Dawei Lu , Bei Zeng , Raymond Laflamme

The aim of this thesis is to determine classes of NP relations for which random generation and approximate counting problems admit an efficient solution. Since efficient rank implies efficient random generation, we first investigate some…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Massimo Santini