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Communication complexity, which quantifies the minimum communication required for distributed computation, offers a natural setting for investigating the capabilities and limitations of quantum mechanics in information processing. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Nikolai Miklin , Prabhav Jain , Mariami Gachechiladze

We consider the problem of testing whether a Boolean function has Fourier degree $\leq k$ or it is $\epsilon$-far from any Boolean function with Fourier degree $\leq k$. We improve the known lower bound of $\Omega(k)$ \cite{BBM11,CGM10}, to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Pooya Hatami

In this article we establish new bounds on the quantum communication complexity of distributed problems. Specifically, we consider the amount of communication that is required to transform a bipartite state into another, typically more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wim van Dam , Patrick Hayden

We prove new bounds on the quantum communication complexity of the disjointness and equality problems. For the case of exact and non-deterministic protocols we show that these complexities are all equal to n+1, the previous best lower bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 Peter Hoyer , Ronald de Wolf

We establish novel connections between magic in quantum circuits and communication complexity. In particular, we show that functions computable with low magic have low communication cost. Our first result shows that the $\mathsf{D}\|$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Uma Girish , Alex May , Natalie Parham , Henry Yuen

In this paper, we focus on the quantum communication complexity of functions of the form $f \circ G = f(G(X_1, Y_1), \ldots, G(X_n, Y_n))$ where $f: \{0, 1\}^n \to \{0, 1\}$ is a symmetric function, $G: \{0, 1\}^j \times \{0, 1\}^k \to \{0,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Daiki Suruga

We present a simple and general simulation technique that transforms any black-box quantum algorithm (a la Grover's database search algorithm) to a quantum communication protocol for a related problem, in a way that fully exploits the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Richard Cleve , Avi Wigderson

The level-$k$ $\ell_1$-Fourier weight of a Boolean function refers to the sum of absolute values of its level-$k$ Fourier coefficients. Fourier growth refers to the growth of these weights as $k$ grows. It has been extensively studied for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Uma Girish , Makrand Sinha , Avishay Tal , Kewen Wu

The process of state preparation, its transmission and subsequent measurement can be classically simulated through the communication of some amount of classical information. Recently, we proved that the minimal communication cost is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Alberto Montina , Stefan Wolf

Buhrman, Cleve and Wigderson (STOC'98) showed that for every Boolean function f : {-1,1}^n to {-1,1} and G in {AND_2, XOR_2}, the bounded-error quantum communication complexity of the composed function f o G equals O(Q(f) log n), where Q(f)…

We exhibit a Boolean function for which the quantum communication complexity is exponentially larger than the classical information complexity. An exponential separation in the other direction was already known from the work of Kerenidis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Anurag Anshu , Dave Touchette , Penghui Yao , Nengkun Yu

Communication complexity is the amount of communication needed to compute a function when the function inputs are distributed over multiple parties. In its simplest form, one-way communication complexity, Alice and Bob compute a function…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Naresh Goud Boddu , Rahul Jain , Han-Hsuan Lin

We give lower bounds on the communication complexity required to solve several computational problems in a distributed-memory parallel machine, namely standard matrix multiplication, stencil computations, comparison sorting, and the Fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Michele Scquizzato , Francesco Silvestri

We consider the class of functions whose value depends only on the intersection of the input X_1,X_2, ..., X_t; that is, for each F in this class there is an f_F: 2^{[n]} \to {0,1}, such that F(X_1,X_2, ..., X_t) = f_F(X_1 \cap X_2 \cap ...…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rahul Jain , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Pranab Sen

One of the strongest techniques available for showing lower bounds on quantum communication complexity is the logarithm of the approximation rank of the communication matrix--the minimum rank of a matrix which is entrywise close to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Troy Lee , Adi Shraibman

We examine the number T of queries that a quantum network requires to compute several Boolean functions on {0,1}^N in the black-box model. We show that, in the black-box model, the exponential quantum speed-up obtained for partial functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Beals , Harry Buhrman , Richard Cleve , Michele Mosca , Ronald de Wolf

We study an extension of the standard two-party communication model in which Alice and Bob hold probability distributions $p$ and $q$ over domains $X$ and $Y$, respectively. Their goal is to estimate \[ \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p,\, y \sim…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Parikshit Gopalan , Raghu Meka , Prasad Raghavendra , Mihir Singhal , Avi Wigderson

We study space-bounded communication complexity for unitary implementation in distributed quantum processors, where we restrict the number of qubits per processor to ensure practical relevance and technical non-triviality. We model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Longcheng Li , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Jiadong Zhu

We study the question of how much classical communication is needed when Alice is given a classical description of a quantum state $|\psi\rangle$ for Bob to recover any expectation value $\langle \psi | M |\psi\rangle$ given an observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Kaushik Sankar

For any function $f: X \times Y \to Z$, we prove that $Q^{*\text{cc}}(f) \cdot Q^{\text{OIP}}(f) \cdot (\log Q^{\text{OIP}}(f) + \log |Z|) \geq \Omega(\log |X|)$. Here, $Q^{*\text{cc}}(f)$ denotes the bounded-error communication complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-09-07 William M. Hoza