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Quantum error mitigation (QEM) is crucial for obtaining reliable results on quantum computers by suppressing quantum noise with moderate resources. It is a key factor for successful and practical quantum algorithm implementations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Shi-Xin Zhang , Zhou-Quan Wan , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Hong Yao , Shengyu Zhang

The computational complexity of simulating the dynamics of physical quantum systems is a central question at the interface of quantum physics and computer science. In this work, we address this question for the simulation of exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Lilith Zschetzsche , Refik Mansuroglu , Norbert Schuch

This paper is devoted to constructing a quantum version of the famous KP hierarchy, by deforming its second Hamiltonian structure, namely the nonlinear $\hat{W}_{\infty}$ algebra. This is achieved by quantizing the conformal noncompact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Feng Yu , Yong-Shi Wu

We give a surprising classification for the computational complexity of the Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problem over a constraint language $\Gamma$, QCSP$(\Gamma)$, where $\Gamma$ is a finite language over $3$ elements which contains…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Dmitriy Zhuk , Barnaby Martin

Estimation of the minimum eigenvalue of a quantum Hamiltonian can be formalised as the Local Hamiltonian problem. We study the natural special case of the Local Hamiltonian problem where the same 2-local interaction, with differing weights,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Stephen Piddock , Ashley Montanaro

We present a quantum eigenstate filtering algorithm based on quantum signal processing (QSP) and minimax polynomials. The algorithm allows us to efficiently prepare a target eigenstate of a given Hamiltonian, if we have access to an initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Lin Lin , Yu Tong

We provide several advances to the understanding of the class of Quantum Merlin-Arthur proof systems (QMA), the quantum analogue of NP. Our central contribution is proving a longstanding conjecture that the Consistency of Local Density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Anne Broadbent , Alex B. Grilo

We initiate the study of parameterized complexity of $\textsf{QMA}$ problems in terms of the number of non-Clifford gates in the problem description. We show that for the problem of parameterized quantum circuit satisfiability, there exists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Sergey Bravyi , Chinmay Nirkhe , Bryan O'Gorman

We study the complexity of problems solvable in deterministic polynomial time with access to an NP or Quantum Merlin-Arthur (QMA)-oracle, such as $P^{NP}$ and $P^{QMA}$, respectively. The former allows one to classify problems more finely…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Sevag Gharibian , Dorian Rudolph

Quantum states are represented by positive semidefinite Hermitian operators with unit trace, known as density matrices. An important subset of quantum states is that of separable states, the complement of which is the subset of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Grigoriy Blekherman , H. M. Bharath

We identify a formal connection between physical problems related to the detection of separable (unentangled) quantum states and complexity classes in theoretical computer science. In particular, we show that to nearly every quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 Gus Gutoski , Patrick Hayden , Kevin Milner , Mark M. Wilde

We use the powerful tools of counting complexity and generic oracles to help understand the limitations of the complexity of quantum computation. We show several results for the probabilistic quantum class BQP. 1. BQP is low for PP, i.e.,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lance Fortnow , John D. Rogers

The Quantum Satisfiability problem (QSAT) is the generalization of the canonical NP-complete problem - Boolean Satisfiability. (k,s)-QSAT is the following variant of the problem: given a set of projectors of rank 1, acting non-trivially on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Or Sattath

The problem 2-quantum-satisfiability (2-QSAT) is the generalisation of the 2-CNF-SAT problem to quantum bits, and is equivalent to determining whether or not a spin-1/2 Hamiltonian with two-body terms is frustration-free. Similarly to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Niel de Beaudrap

The complexity of variants of 3-SAT and Not-All-Equal 3-SAT is well studied. However, in contrast, very little is known about the complexity of the problems' quantified counterparts. In the first part of this paper, we show that $\forall…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Janosch Döcker , Britta Dorn , Simone Linz , Charles Semple

The Hidden Subgroup Problem (HSP) is a computational problem which includes as special cases integer factorization, the discrete logarithm problem, graph isomorphism, and the shortest vector problem. The celebrated polynomial-time quantum…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Matthew Moore , Taylor Walenczyk

Polynomial multiplication is known to have quasi-linear complexity in both the dense and the sparse cases. Yet no truly linear algorithm has been given in any case for the problem, and it is not clear whether it is even possible. This…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Pascal Giorgi , Bruno Grenet , Armelle Perret du Cray

Many promising quantum applications depend on the efficient quantum simulation of an exponentially large sparse Hamiltonian, a task known as sparse Hamiltonian simulation, which is fundamentally important in quantum computation. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jiaqi Leng , Joseph Li , Yuxiang Peng , Xiaodi Wu

Various practical problems within the class $\Sigma_{2}^P$ possess an unambiguity property, meaning that yes-instances correspond with a unique witness. The semantic class containing all unambiguous $\Sigma_{2}^P$ problems is denoted…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Matan Gilboa , Paul W. Goldberg , Elias Koutsoupias , Noam Nisan

We present a new method for solving the hidden polynomial graph problem (HPGP) which is a special case of the hidden polynomial problem (HPP). The new approach yields an efficient quantum algorithm for the bivariate HPGP even when the input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Thomas Decker , Peter Hoyer , Gabor Ivanyos , Miklos Santha