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The entanglement properties of random quantum states or dynamics are important to the study of a broad spectrum of disciplines of physics, ranging from quantum information to high energy and many-body physics. This work investigates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Zi-Wen Liu , Seth Lloyd , Elton Yechao Zhu , Huangjun Zhu

Random transformations are typically good at "scrambling" information. Specifically, in the quantum setting, scrambling usually refers to the process of mapping most initial pure product states under a unitary transformation to states which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-04 Winton Brown , Omar Fawzi

In [A.W. Harrow and R.A. Low, Commun. Math. Phys. 291, 257-302 (2009)], it was shown that a quantum circuit composed of random 2-qubit gates converges to an approximate quantum 2-design in polynomial time. We point out and correct a flaw in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-04 Igor Tuche Diniz , Daniel Jonathan

Epsilon-nets and approximate unitary $t$-designs are natural notions that capture properties of unitary operations relevant for numerous applications in quantum information and quantum computing. The former constitute subsets of unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Michał Oszmaniec , Adam Sawicki , Michał Horodecki

Constructing ensembles of circuits which efficiently approximate the Haar measure over various groups is a long-standing and fundamental problem in quantum information theory. Recently it was shown that one can obtain approximate designs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Maxwell West , Diego García-Martín , N. L. Diaz , M. Cerezo , Martin Larocca

We analyse the entanglement structure of states generated by random constant-depth two-dimensional quantum circuits, followed by projective measurements of a subset of sites. By deriving a rigorous lower bound on the average entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Max McGinley , Wen Wei Ho , Daniel Malz

Quantum relative entropy, a quantum generalization of the renowned Kullback-Leibler divergence, serves as a fundamental measure of the distinguishability between quantum states and plays a pivotal role in quantum information science.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Yuchen Lu , Kun Fang

We study the richness of the ensemble of graphical structures (i.e., unlabeled graphs) of the one-dimensional random geometric graph model defined by $n$ nodes randomly scattered in $[0,1]$ that connect if they are within the connection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

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

For a random set $\mathcal{S} \subset U(d)$ of quantum gates we provide bounds on the probability that $\mathcal{S}$ forms a $\delta$-approximate $t$-design. In particular we have found that for $\mathcal{S}$ drawn from an exact $t$-design…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Piotr Dulian , Adam Sawicki

We study the encoding complexity for quantum error correcting codes with large rate and distance. We prove that random Clifford circuits with $O(n \log^2 n)$ gates can be used to encode $k$ qubits in $n$ qubits with a distance $d$ provided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Winton Brown , Omar Fawzi

We study the growth of entanglement and circuit complexity in random passive linear optical networks as a function of the circuit depth. For entanglement dynamics, we start with an initial Gaussian state with all $n$ modes squeezed. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Laura Shou , Joseph T. Iosue , Yu-Xin Wang , Victor Galitski , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Motivated by an application from geodesy, we introduce a novel clustering problem which is a $k$-center (or k-diameter) problem with a side constraint. For the side constraint, we are given an undirected connectivity graph $G$ on the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Lukas Drexler , Jan Eube , Kelin Luo , Dorian Reineccius , Heiko Röglin , Melanie Schmidt , Julian Wargalla

Some physical implementation schemes of quantum computing can apply two-qubit gates only on certain pairs of qubits. These connectivity constraints are commonly viewed as a significant disadvantage. For example, compiling an unrestricted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Pei Yuan , Jonathan Allcock , Shengyu Zhang

Random unitaries are a central object of study in quantum information, with applications to quantum computation, quantum many-body physics, and quantum cryptography. Recent work has constructed unitary designs and pseudorandom unitaries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Ben Foxman , Natalie Parham , Francisca Vasconcelos , Henry Yuen

It has been known for almost 30 years that quantum circuits with interspersed depolarizing noise converge to the uniform distribution at $\omega(\log n)$ depth, where $n$ is the number of qubits, making them classically simulable. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Jon Nelson , Joel Rajakumar , Michael J. Gullans

We study the dynamics of (R\'enyi) mutual information, logarithmic negativity, and (R\'enyi) reflected entropy after exciting the ground state by a local operator. Together with recent results from Ref. [1], we are able to conjecture a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Yuya Kusuki , Shinsei Ryu

We prove that $poly(t) \cdot n^{1/D}$-depth local random quantum circuits with two qudit nearest-neighbor gates on a $D$-dimensional lattice with n qudits are approximate $t$-designs in various measures. These include the "monomial"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Aram Harrow , Saeed Mehraban

Randomness is a fundamental resource in quantum information, with crucial applications in cryptography, algorithms, and error correction. A central challenge is to construct unitary $k$-designs that closely approximate Haar-random unitaries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lennart Bittel , Lorenzo Leone

We investigate the theoretical limits of the effect of the quantum interaction distance on the speed of exact quantum addition circuits. For this study, we exploit graph embedding for quantum circuit analysis. We study a logical mapping of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 Byung-Soo Choi , Rodney Van Meter