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Motivated by notions of quantum heuristics and by average-case rather than worst-case algorithmic analysis, we define quantum computational advantage in terms of individual problem instances. Inspired by the classical notions of Kolmogorov…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Harry Buhrman , Niklas Galke , Konstantinos Meichanetzidis

I discuss several aspects of information theory and its relationship to physics and neuroscience. The unifying thread of this somewhat chaotic essay is the concept of Kolmogorov or algorithmic complexity (Kolmogorov Complexity, for short).…

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The quest for quantum computers is motivated by their potential for solving problems that defy existing, classical, computers. The theory of computational complexity, one of the crown jewels of computer science, provides a rigorous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-10 C. R. Laumann , R. Moessner , A. Scardicchio , S. L. Sondhi

The correspondence principle suggests that a quantum description for the microworld should be naturally transited to a classical description within the classical limit. However, it seems that there is a large gap between quantum no-cloning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-16 Ming-hao Wang , Qing-yu Cai

Most continuous mathematical formulations arising in science and engineering can only be solved numerically and therefore approximately. We shall always assume that we're dealing with a numerical approximation to the solution. There are two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-10 A. Papageorgiou , J. F. Traub

The concept of quantum complexity has far-reaching implications spanning theoretical computer science, quantum many-body physics, and high energy physics. The quantum complexity of a unitary transformation or quantum state is defined as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-02 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Wissam Chemissany , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Richard Kueng , John Preskill

Quantum machine learning (QML) holds promise for accelerating pattern recognition, optimization, and data analysis, but the conditions under which it can truly outperform classical approaches remain unclear. Existing research often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Christophe Pere

In addition to the equations, physicists use the following additional difficult-to-formalize property: that the initial conditions and the value of the parameters must not be abnormal. We will describe a natural formalization of this…

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Algorithmic information theory studies description complexity and randomness and is now a well known field of theoretical computer science and mathematical logic. There are several textbooks and monographs devoted to this theory where one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Alexander Shen

The coding theorem for Kolmogorov complexity states that any string sampled from a computable distribution has a description length close to its information content. A coding theorem for resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity is the key to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Shuichi Hirahara , Zhenjian Lu , Mikito Nanashima

We present quantum complexity lower and upper bounds for independent set problems in graphs. In particular, we give quantum algorithms for computing a maximal and a maximum independent set in a graph. We present applications of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sebastian Doern

This paper looks at the intersection of algorithmic information theory and physics, namely quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and black holes. We discuss theorems which characterize the barrier between the quantum world and the classical…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Samuel Epstein

In this study, the effect of bounded quantum memory in a primitive information protocol has been examined using the quantum Kolmogorov complexity as a measure of information. We employed a toy two-party protocol in which Bob by using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-15 Takayuki Miyadera

The Kolmogorov complexity of a string is the length of its shortest description. We define a second quantised Kolmogorov complexity where the length of a description is defined to be the average length of its superposition. We discuss this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 Caroline Rogers , Vlatko Vedral , Rajagopal Nagarajan

We discuss a classical complexity of finite-dimensional unitary transformations, which can been seen as a computable approximation of classical descriptional complexity of a unitary transformation acting on a set of qubits.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Alexei Kaltchenko

Kolmogorov's foundation of probability takes measure spaces, $\sigma$-algebras, and probability measures as basic objects. It is, however, widely recognized that this classical framework is inadequate for random phenomena involving quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Antonio Falcó , Hermann G. Matthies

The "quantum complexity" of a unitary operator measures the difficulty of its construction from a set of elementary quantum gates. While the notion of quantum complexity was first introduced as a quantum generalization of the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Vir B. Bulchandani , S. L. Sondhi

The paper proposes open problems in classical Kolmogorov complexity. Each problem is presented with background information and thus the article also surveys some recent studies in the area.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Andrei Romashchenko , Alexander Shen , Marius Zimand

The impossibility of simultaneously cloning non-orthogonal states lies at the foundations of quantum theory. Even when allowing for approximation errors, cloning an arbitrary unknown pure state requires as many initial copies as needed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Nikhil Bansal , Matthias C. Caro , Gaurav Mahajan

Over the past decade quantum information theory has developed into a vigorous field of research despite the fact that quantum information, as a precise concept, is undefined. Indeed the very idea of viewing quantum states as carriers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Jozsa