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We present a quantum algorithm that additively approximates the value of a tensor network to a certain scale. When combined with existing results, this provides a complete problem for quantum computation. The result is a simple new way of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Itai Arad , Zeph Landau

We present an end-to-end reconfigurable algorithmic pipeline for solving a famous problem in knot theory using a noisy digital quantum computer, namely computing the value of the Jones polynomial at the fifth root of unity within additive…

We analyze relationships between quantum computation and a family of generalizations of the Jones polynomial. Extending recent work by Aharonov et al., we give efficient quantum circuits for implementing the unitary Jones-Wenzl…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Pawel Wocjan , Jon Yard

There is a natural relationship between Jones polynomials and quantum computation. We use this relationship to show that the complexity of evaluating relative-error approximations of Jones polynomials can be used to bound the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Ryan L. Mann , Michael J. Bremner

This expository essay is aimed at introducing the Jones polynomial. We will see the encapsulation of the Jones polynomial, which will involve topics in functional analysis and geometrical topology; making this essay an interdisciplinary…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Monica Queen

This paper gives a generalization of the AJL algorithm and unitary braid group representation for quantum computation of the Jones polynomial to continuous ranges of values on the unit circle of the Jones parameter. We show that our…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Louis H. Kauffman , Samuel J. Lomonaco

A celebrated important result due to Freedman, Larsen and Wang states that providing additive approximations of the Jones polynomial at the k'th root of unity, for constant k=5 and k>6, is BQP-hard. Together with the algorithmic results of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad

In this paper we discuss two different existing algorithms for computing topological entropy and we perform one of them in order to compute the isentropes for cubic polynomials.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Noah Cockram , Ana Rodrigues

In this article we present a pedagogical introduction of the main ideas and recent advances in the area of topological quantum computation. We give an overview of the concept of anyons and their exotic statistics, present various models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gavin K. Brennen , Jiannis K. Pachos

Quantum algorithm is an algorithm for solving mathematical problems using quantum systems encoded as information, which is found to outperform classical algorithms in some specific cases. The objective of this study is to develop a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Theerapat Tansuwannont , Surachate Limkumnerd , Sujin Suwanna , Pruet Kalasuwan

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) are an analog of classical neural networks in the world of quantum computing, which are represented by a unitary matrix with trainable parameters. Inspired by the universal approximation property of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Ariel Neufeld , Philipp Schmocker , Viet Khoa Tran

A surprising 'converse to the polynomial method' of Aaronson et al. (CCC'16) shows that any bounded quadratic polynomial can be computed exactly in expectation by a 1-query algorithm up to a universal multiplicative factor related to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Jop Briët , Francisco Escudero Gutiérrez

We introduce tensor network contraction algorithms for the evaluation of the Jones polynomial of arbitrary knots. The value of the Jones polynomial of a knot maps to the partition function of a $q$-state Potts model defined as a planar…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-16 Konstantinos Meichanetzidis , Stefanos Kourtis

We describe two quantum algorithms to approximate the mean value of a black-box function. The first algorithm is novel and asymptotically optimal while the second is a variation on an earlier algorithm due to Aharonov. Both algorithms have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 Gilles Brassard , Frederic Dupuis , Sebastien Gambs , Alain Tapp

We apply big data techniques, including exploratory and topological data analysis, to investigate quantum invariants. More precisely, our study explores the Jones polynomial's structural properties and contrasts its behavior under four…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Daniel Tubbenhauer , Victor Zhang

The Jones and HOMFLY polynomials are link invariants with close connections to quantum computing. It was recently shown that finding a certain approximation to the Jones polynomial of the trace closure of a braid at the fifth root of unity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-03 Stephen P. Jordan , Pawel Wocjan

In the first 36 pages of this paper, we provide polynomial quantum algorithms for additive approximations of the Tutte polynomial, at any point in the Tutte plane, for any planar graph. This includes as special cases the AJL algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dorit Aharonov , Itai Arad , Elad Eban , Zeph Landau

Approximating ground and a fixed number of excited state energies, or equivalently low order Hamiltonian eigenvalues, is an important but computationally hard problem. Typically, the cost of classical deterministic algorithms grows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Stuart Hadfield , Anargyros Papageorgiou

In this paper we study the complexity of quantum query algorithms computing the value of Boolean function and its relation to the degree of algebraic polynomial representing this function. We pay special attention to Boolean functions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-24 Alina Dubrovska Vasilieva , Taisija Mischenko-Slatenkova

Certain quantum topological invariants of three manifolds can be written in the form of the Gaussian sum. It is shown that such topological invariants can be approximated efficiently by a quantum computer. The invariants discussed here are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-11 K. Shiokawa