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Simulating quantum circuits using classical computers lets us analyse the inner workings of quantum algorithms. The most complete type of simulation, strong simulation, is believed to be generally inefficient. Nevertheless, several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 T. H. Johnson , J. D. Biamonte , S. R. Clark , D. Jaksch

Current quantum computers can only solve optimization problems of a very limited size. For larger problems, decomposition methods are required in which the original problem is broken down into several smaller sub-problems. These are then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Zongji Li , Tobias Seidel , Michael Bortz , Raoul Heese

Quantum mechanics led to spectacular technological developments, discovery of new constituents of matter and new materials. However there is still no consensus on its interpretation and limitations. Some scientists and scientific writers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Marian Kupczynski

We analyse in details the problems which one faces trying to quantize a scalar field on the spacelike cylinder being the simple example of a spacetime with closed timelike curves. Our analysis brings to light the fact that the usual set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey V. Sushkov

Practical challenges in simulating quantum systems on classical computers have been widely recognized in the quantum physics and quantum chemistry communities over the past century. Although many approximation methods have been introduced,…

The recent development of quantum computing, which uses entanglement, superposition, and other quantum fundamental concepts, can provide substantial processing advantages over traditional computing. These quantum features help solve many…

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 massive data sets from today's particle physics experiments present a variety of challenges amenable to the tools developed by the statistics community. From the real-time decision of what subset of data to record on permanent storage,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce Knuteson , Paul Padley

Quantum computing promises significant improvements of computation capabilities in various fields such as machine learning and complex optimization problems. Recent technological advancements suggest that the adiabatic quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Veit Stooß , Martin Ulmke , Felix Govaers

We study the complexity of computational problems from quantum physics. Typically, they are studied using the complexity class QMA (quantum counterpart of NP) but some natural computational problems appear to be slightly harder than QMA. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Andris Ambainis

Quantum computing promises to provide the next step up in computational power for diverse application areas. In this review, we examine the science behind the quantum hype, and the breakthroughs required to achieve true quantum advantage in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 R. Au-Yeung , B. Camino , O. Rathore , V. Kendon

Assuming a cloning oracle, satisfiability, which is an NP complete problem, is shown to belong to $BPP^C$ and $BQP^C$ (depending on the ability of the oracle C to clone either a binary random variable or a qubit). The same result is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John A. Drakopoulos , Theodore N. Tomaras

A quantum algorithm is proposed to solve the Satisfiability problems by the ground-state quantum computer. The scale of the energy gap of the ground-state quantum computer is analyzed for the 3-bit Exact Cover problem. The time cost of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wenjin Mao

Determining whether a quantum state is separable or entangled is a problem of fundamental importance in quantum information science. It has recently been shown that this problem is NP-hard. There is a highly inefficient `basic algorithm'…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. M. Ioannou , B. C. Travaglione , D. Cheung , A. K. Ekert

On the base of years of experience of working on the problem of the physical foundation of quantum mechanics the author offers principles of solving it. Under certain pressure of mathematical formalism there has raised a hypothesis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. E. Shemi-zadeh

The quest for real-time dynamic optimization solutions in the process industry represents a formidable computational challenge, particularly within the realm of applications like model-predictive control, where rapid and reliable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Dennis Michael Nenno , Adrian Caspari

Computational complexity is examined using the principle of increasing entropy. To consider computation as a physical process from an initial instance to the final acceptance is motivated because many natural processes have been recognized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Arto Annila

The concept of space-bounded computability has become significantly important in handling vast data sets on memory-limited computing devices. To replenish the existing short list of NL-complete problems whose instance sizes are dictated by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tomoyuki Yamakami

The new information-theoretic Process Physics has shown that space is a quantum foam system with gravity being, in effect, an inhomogeneous in-flow of the quantum foam into matter. The theory predicts that absolute motion with respect to…

General Physics · Physics 2010-07-14 Reginald T. Cahill

Exhibiting a deep connection between purely geometric problems and real algebra, the complexity class $\exists \mathbb{R}$ plays a crucial role in the study of geometric problems. Sometimes $\exists \mathbb{R}$ is referred to as the 'real…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Michael G. Dobbins , Linda Kleist , Tillmann Miltzow , Paweł Rzążewski