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This paper creates and analyses a new quantum algorithm called the Amplified Quantum Fourier Transform (Amplified-QFT) for solving the following problem: The Local Period Problem: Let L = {0,1...N-1} be a set of N labels and let A be a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 David J. Cornwell

The problem 2-LOCAL HAMILTONIAN has been shown to be complete for the quantum computational class QMA, see quant-ph/0406180. In this paper we show that this important problem remains QMA-complete when the interactions of the 2-local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-17 Roberto Oliveira , Barbara M. Terhal

We consider the power of local algorithms for approximately solving Max $k$XOR, a generalization of two constraint satisfaction problems previously studied with classical and quantum algorithms (MaxCut and Max E3LIN2). In Max $k$XOR each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Kunal Marwaha , Stuart Hadfield

Time-periodic (Floquet) systems are one of the most interesting nonequilibrium systems. As the computation of energy eigenvalues and eigenstates of time-independent Hamiltonians is a central problem in both classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Kaoru Mizuta

We give new bounds on the circuit complexity of the quantum Fourier transform (QFT). We give an upper bound of O(log n + log log (1/epsilon)) on the circuit depth for computing an approximation of the QFT with respect to the modulus 2^n…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Cleve , John Watrous

Solving linear systems and quadratic programming (QP) problems are both ubiquitous tasks in the engineering and computing fields. Direct methods for solving systems, such as Cholesky, LU, and QR factorizations, exhibit data-independent time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Liang Wu , Richard D. Braatz

In this thesis, we settle the computational complexity of some fundamental questions in polynomial optimization. These include the questions of (i) finding a local minimum, (ii) testing local minimality of a point, and (iii) deciding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Jeffrey Zhang

We analyze the long time behavior of a quantum computer running a quantum error correction (QEC) code in the presence of a correlated environment. Starting from a Hamiltonian formulation of realistic noise models, and assuming that QEC is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-11 E. Novais , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Harold U. Baranger

Quantum computation can be achieved by preparing an appropriate initial product state of qudits and then letting it evolve under a fixed Hamiltonian. The readout is made by measurement on individual qudits at some later time. This approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Tzu-Chieh Wei , John C. Liang

The quantified Boolean formula problem (QBF) is a well-known PSpace-complete problem with rich expressive power, and is generally viewed as the SAT analogue for PSpace. Given that many problems today are solved in practice by reducing to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist , Sebastian Ordyniak , George Osipov , Fahad Panolan , Mateusz Rychlicki

We show that one can quantum simulate the dynamics of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with $N$ Majorana modes for time $t$ to precision $\epsilon$ with gate complexity $O(N^{7/2} t + N^{5/2} t \,{\rm polylog}(N/ \epsilon))$. In addition to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Ryan Babbush , Dominic Berry , Hartmut Neven

Finite-sum optimization has wide applications in machine learning, covering important problems such as support vector machines, regression, etc. In this paper, we initiate the study of solving finite-sum optimization problems by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Yexin Zhang , Chenyi Zhang , Cong Fang , Liwei Wang , Tongyang Li

We study the problem of Hamiltonian structure learning from real-time evolution: given the ability to apply $e^{-\mathrm{i} Ht}$ for an unknown local Hamiltonian $H = \sum_{a = 1}^m \lambda_a E_a$ on $n$ qubits, the goal is to recover $H$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Ainesh Bakshi , Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra , Ewin Tang

Recently it was shown that the so-called guided local Hamiltonian problem -- estimating the smallest eigenvalue of a $k$-local Hamiltonian when provided with a description of a quantum state ('guiding state') that is guaranteed to have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Chris Cade , Marten Folkertsma , Jordi Weggemans

The Fokker-Planck equation models rare events across sciences, but its high-dimensional nature challenges classical computers. Quantum algorithms for such non-unitary dynamics often suffer from exponential {decay in} success probability. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Tyler Kharazi , Ahmad M. Alkadri , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , K. Birgitta Whaley

Multivariate quantum signal processing (M-QSP) has recently been shown to be applicable for non-Hermitian Hamiltonian simulation, opening several problems regarding the optimization landscape, angle-finding, and constant-factor analysis. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Joshua M. Courtney

Proposed hybrid algorithms encode a combinatorial cost function into a problem Hamiltonian and optimize its energy by varying over a set of states with low circuit complexity. Classical processing is typically only used for the choice of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Libor Caha , Alexander Kliesch , Robert Koenig

We study the quadratic penalty method (QPM) for smooth nonconvex optimization problems with equality constraints. Assuming the constraint violation satisfies the PL condition near the feasible set, we derive sharper worst-case complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Florentin Goyens , Geovani N. Grapiglia

Recent hardware demonstrations and advances in circuit compilation have made quantum computing with higher-dimensional systems (qudits) on near-term devices an attractive possibility. Some problems have more natural or optimal encodings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Gabriel Bottrill , Mudit Pandey , Olivia Di Matteo

The Hamiltonian constraint remains the major unsolved problem in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). Seven years ago a mathematically consistent candidate Hamiltonian constraint has been proposed but there are still several unsettled questions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-18 Thomas Thiemann