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As research on building scalable quantum computers advances, it is important to be able to certify their correctness. Due to the exponential hardness of classically simulating quantum computation, straight-forward verification through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Iskren Vankov , Daniel Mills , Petros Wallden , Elham Kashefi

Today's experimental noisy quantum processors can compete with and surpass all known algorithms on state-of-the-art supercomputers for the computational benchmark task of Random Circuit Sampling [1-5]. Additionally, a circuit-based quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 K. Kechedzhi , S. V. Isakov , S. Mandrà , B. Villalonga , X. Mi , S. Boixo , V. Smelyanskiy

We analyse a model for fault-tolerant quantum computation with low overhead suitable for situations where the noise is biased. The basis for this scheme is a gadget for the fault-tolerant preparation of magic states that enable universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Paul Webster , Stephen D. Bartlett , David Poulin

We investigate the correspondence between classical noise and quantum environments. Although it has been known that the classical noise can be mapped to the quantum environments only for pure dephasing and infinite-temperature dissipation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Jiarui Zeng , Guo-Hao Xu , Weijie Huang , Yao Yao

The fundamental problem of the transition from quantum to classical physics is usually explained by decoherence, and viewed as a gradual process. The study of entanglement, or quantum correlations, in noisy quantum computers implies that in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Dorit Aharonov

Knowing a quantum system's environment is critical for its practical use as a quantum device. Qubit sensors can reconstruct the noise spectral density of a classical bath, provided long enough coherence time. Here we present a protocol that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Santiago Hernández-Gómez , Francesco Poggiali , Paola Cappellaro , Nicole Fabbri

Near-term quantum machine learning (QML) models operate in environments wherein noise is unavoidable, arising from both imperfect classical data acquisition and the limitations of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Bhavna Bose , Muhammad Faryad

We investigate how noise impacts nonstabilizerness - a key resource for quantum advantage - in many-body qubit systems. While noise typically degrades quantum resources, we show that amplitude damping, a nonunital channel, can generate or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Fabian Ballar Trigueros , José Antonio Marín Guzmán

A classical state-preparation device cannot generate states in relative superposition. We introduce classical models in which devices that are individually unable to generate states with relative superposition can be stochastically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Gabriele Cobucci , Alexander Bernal , Martin J. Renner , Armin Tavakoli

The class of commuting quantum circuits known as IQP (instantaneous quantum polynomial-time) has been shown to be hard to simulate classically, assuming certain complexity-theoretic conjectures. Here we study the power of IQP circuits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Michael J. Bremner , Ashley Montanaro , Dan J. Shepherd

We address the use of a single qubit as a quantum probe to characterize the properties of classical noise. In particular, we focus on the characterization of classical noise arising from the interaction with a stochastic field described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Claudia Benedetti , Matteo G. A. Paris

Magic states are the resource that allows quantum computers to attain an advantage over classical computers. This resource consists in the deviation from a property called stabilizerness which in turn implies that stabilizer circuits can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Salvatore F. E. Oliviero , Lorenzo Leone , Alioscia Hamma , Seth Lloyd

We present conditions for the efficient simulation of a broad class of optical quantum circuits on a classical machine: this class includes unitary transformations, amplification, noise, and measurements. Various proposed schemes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Barry C. Sanders

Quantum simulation is a central application of near-term quantum devices, pursued in both analog and digital architectures. A key challenge for both paradigms is the effect of imperfections and noise on predictive power. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jayant Rao , Jens Eisert , Tommaso Guaita

We investigate the effect of quantum noise on the measurement-induced quantum phase transition in monitored random quantum circuits. Using the efficient simulability of random Clifford circuits, we find that the transition is broadened into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Beatriz C. Dias , Domagoj Perkovic , Masudul Haque , Pedro Ribeiro , Paul A. McClarty

The classical simulation of quantum dynamics plays an important role in our understanding of quantum complexity, and in the development of quantum technologies. Efficient techniques such as those based on the Gottesman-Knill theorem for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Matthew L. Goh , Martin Larocca , Lukasz Cincio , M. Cerezo , Frédéric Sauvage

Generic open quantum systems are notoriously difficult to simulate unless one looks at specific regimes. In contrast, classical dissipative systems can often be effectively described by stochastic processes, which are generally less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Charlie R. Hogg , Jonas Glatthard , Federico Cerisola , Janet Anders

The mathematical framework of quantum theory, though fundamentally distinct from classical physics, raises the question of whether quantum processes can be efficiently simulated using classical resources. For instance, a sender (Alice)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik , Mani Zartab , Nicolas Gisin , Manik Banik

Quantum instruments describe both the classical outcome and the updated state associated with a quantum measurement. We ask whether these processes can be simulated using only a natural subset of resources, namely projective measurements on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Shishir Khandelwal , Armin Tavakoli

The goal of benchmarking is to determine how far the output of a noisy system is from its ideal behavior; this becomes exceedingly difficult for large quantum systems where classical simulations become intractable. A common approach is to…