Quantum computation and computational issues related to quantum mechanics
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Quantum circuit simulation divergence in results
I'm learning about quantum computing in order to code a simulator. I tried the following circuit in Quirk
And ran the same circuit using OPENQASM 2.0:
Notice that the input is |11> in both cases, ...
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Can hypercomputation compute all kinds of incomputable numbers/functions/problems…etc? [migrated]
Hypercomputation is a "cheat" that extends the capability of a Turing machine or quantum computer or cellular automaton by adding extra abilities. A standard method is "Oracle machines", Turing ...
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Can one do quantum computing without negative amplitudes?
The typical representation I see of $k$ qubits is a $2^k$ complex numbers $c_i$ for every possible combination of values of those bits, such that the sum of all the squared magnitudes of those numbers ...
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Which cryptographic protocols are secure against quantum computer attacks?
Are there any cryptosystems that we know that would be secure against an attack by a quantum computer?
Are there problems which are known or suspected to be hard for quantum computers, and can these ...
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How would proof of the Lindelöf hypothesis improve our understanding of computational complexity classes?
A recent press release from the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC discussed the proof of the Lindelöf hypothesis by Athanassios Fokas, a visiting professor from the Department of Applied ...
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BQNC and Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem
We know integer factorization is in $BPP^{BQNC}$ from Cleve and Watrous.
Is Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem also in $BPP^{BQNC}$? If not what is it that makes integer factorization special?
In ...
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Complement for joint POVMs?
I'm trying to relate some notions of set theory to POVMs. I firstly explain the scenario with set theory and then in the POVM setting.
For some finite $N \in \mathbb{N}$, let $A_i$ and $B_i$ for $i=1,...
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PromiseBQP and expectation values of operators
This question is regarding The Equivalence of Searching and Sampling by Aaronson. In page 4 he makes the following statement,
... a difficult and unsolved meta-question is whether PromiseBPP = ...
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What would be a complete QC circuit?
In classical computing NAND is a complete set (functionally complete) of binary operations, namely any Boolean circuit can be expressed using NAND gates.
Is there an equivalent for quantum computing ...
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Is $CAPP \in P$ known to collapse some quantum complexity classes to classical ones?
Lets define the class
$ZBQP = \{ L \mid \exists \textit{P-uniform circuit family } \{C_i\}, \forall n \in \mathbb{N}, |x| = n, |\langle 0|C_n|x \rangle - I(x \in L)| \leq 9/10 \Longleftrightarrow x \...
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Does Ladner's theorem work in $\oplus P$ and $PP$ setting?
The answer here (Generalized Ladner's Theorem) says for many natural settings Ladner's theorem applies.
For many interesting problems such as those equivalent to finding parity of number of ...
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Query complexity of quantum search with measuring oracle
Consider the following problem:
Let $x\in X$ be a uniformly random value.
Let $O$ be an oracle that measures whether the register $Q$ contains $x$. More precisely, $O$ measures $Q$ using the ...
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QUBO formulation of a discrete-variable optimization problem
I am facing a non-linear, discrete optimization problem, which I can formulate in this abstract manner: I have a certain non-analytic non-linear real-valued function $f:S \to \mathbb{R}$ which takes ...
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What is the average sensitivity of a quantum circuit with depth $d$ and size $s$?
We have some quantum circuit $C$ with $k$ ancillae and $n$ input bits of depth $d$ and size $s$, and we can define a function $f$ which, for any $x \in \{0, 1\}^n$, is the random variable which is the ...
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Complexity class on quantum computation and classic ones
Does the complexity speedup in superpolynomial by quantum computation mean it is possible to find new algorithm on classic Turing Machine which can speedup in classic Turing Machine in ...
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Quantum polynomial hierarchy vs counting hierarchy
First of all, I'm kinda surprised that I couldn't find any paper/article defining such hierarchy.
It can be defined as follows:
$\Delta_0^{\mathsf{BQP}}=\Sigma_0^{\mathsf{BQP}}=\Pi_0^{\mathsf{BQP}}=\...
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How can I get $\sum_n e^{i a_n} |n\rangle$ from $\sum_n a_n |n\rangle$?
Suppose that I have a normalized quantum state $\sum_n a_n |n\rangle$, is there a quantum operation/circuit so that I can get $\frac{1}{N} \sum_n e^{i a_n} |n\rangle$ at output? How?
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Is there a way to extract the mean from a quantum superposition?
Given the superposed output of some quantum computation, suppose I want to know the mean state, i.e. the mean probability of each qubit sampled over all states.
The most obvious way to get this is ...
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Connection between diamond norm and output purity norm
Setting of the problem: Given a quantum channel $\mathcal{E}: \mathcal{H}_A\rightarrow \mathcal{H}_B$ (where $\mathcal{H}$ refers to a Hilbert space and subscript refers to the quantum register ...
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A random ensemble of sparse boundary operators
The following question arises from the study of quantum error correction, and high-dimensional expanders:
Is there an algorithm that for given numbers $n>0,d≤n,r≤n$ samples uniformly a linear ...
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Grover's for QUBO form?
My preferred formulation of the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem (QUBO) is the following:
Find $\min(z)=x'Qx$, where $x$ is a $n$-vector of binary variables, $x'$ is its transpose, ...
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Oracle Construction for Grover's Algorithm
In Mike and Ike's "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information", Grover's algorithm is explained in great detail. However, in the book, and in all explanations I have found online for Grover's ...
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What would a quantum computer architecture look like? [closed]
More specifically, assuming we manage to make an efficient quantum switch, some kind of "quansistor"(quantum transistor) and manage to resolve the problem of joining a bunch of them together without ...
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Convexity argument in QMA Amplification
I'm interested in the basic amplification procedure for QMA: the prover sends $O(r)$ copies of his witness to the verifier, which decreases the error probability to $2^{-O(r)}$ (Chernoff bound). The ...
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Simulating quantum measurements by unitaries
I have seen many papers in which quantum measurements are assumed to be replaced by unitaries. See this quotation from [KW00] for instance:
Often we will describe quantum circuits in a high-level ...
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Finding a basis for quantum measurement with maximum distinguishability
I wish to find a basis state for the quantum measurement of two states which provides the maximum possible distinguishability. In this example let's say we wish to find the best basis ($|\psi\rangle$) ...
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Numerical accuracy of superpositions in quantum computers
I am new to the topic of quantum computers (though I am very familiar with both quantum and computers, and I have studied Shor's paper about his eponymous algorithm at some point). Still, I have the ...
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general statement what kinds of problems can be solved more efficiently
is there a general statement what kinds of problems can be solved more efficiently using quantum computers (quantum gate model only)? do the problems for which an algorithm is known today have a ...
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When can be used the “uncompute garbage” trick in quantum computing?
As far as I have understood, "uncomputation" in quantum computing is a way to restore the working memory to its initial state, while keeping the result of the computation in another register. This ...
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Running multiple rounds of a BQP computation, without multiple measurements? [closed]
BQP as usually defined is: the class of decision problems solvable by a quantum computer in polynomial time, with an error probability of at most 1/3 for all instances.
Just like BPP, the choice of 1/...
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Is graph automorphism Karp-reducible to graph isomorphism under hidden subgroup representation?
The classical representations of the graph automorphism problem is Karp-reducible to the classical representation of the graph isomorphism problem. The sketch of proof for this can be written as ...
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How to simulate the quantum measurement of a quantum state in Quantum Image
I'm trying to implement (simulate) the Novel Enhanced Quantum Representation (NEQR), which is one of the quantum image representation models, but i'm stuck in the measurement part. In other words i ...
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Computational Complexity of cycle double cover
Let $\mathcal{G}$ be the set of all finite simple graphs. Let graph $G\in \mathcal{G}$ and $C_G=\left <C_1,...,C_m \right >$ be a sequence of cycles of $G$ for some $m$. For every edge $e$ of $G$...
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Quantum polynomial method and L2-norm
Consider a quantum query algorithm that takes as input $x \in \{0,1\}^n$. Denote by $X_i$ the variable that evaluates to $1$ on input $x$ if the $i$-th bit of $x$ is 1, and $-1$ otherwise. Let $X_{\...
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What does a tangible Quantum-Gate look like?
I'v read published books, articles and papers about Quantum-Computing.
I found that all the materials I've seen are, instead of describing quantum gate from basic physics to abstraction, trying hard ...
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Cutting edge of quantum error correction
Often I find myself needing to know the best error correcting code for a certain quantum scenario. For example, suppose my logical systems are 3-dimensional; then what's the most efficient encoding to ...
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Is the 2016 implementation of Shor's algorithm really scalable?
In the 2016 Science paper "Realization of a scalable Shor algorithm" [1], the authors factor 15 with only 5 qubits, which is fewer than the 8 qubits "required" according to Table 1 of [2] and Table 5 ...
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Can a computer generated organism be self aware? [closed]
Imagine that a computer generating a small universe similar to our own. Same table of elements, same physics, ect. Starting from the very beginning, with the creation of all the atoms in the ...
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The factoring problem reduces to order finding or is it the other way around? [closed]
initially i was not at all equipped in theoretical computer science and knew only basics of number of theory.
I started working from scratch on the age old problem of primality testing which led me to ...
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Which areas of computer science have lots of overlap with physics?
I'm an undergrad in computer science but I've always loved physics and its ability to constantly amaze and surprise us about our world. I am wondering if there are areas in graduate level computer ...
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Iterating over all stabilizer operations on $k$ qubits
Stabilizer circuits, i.e. quantum circuit that only use the $H$, $\sqrt{Z}$, and $CNOT$ gates, can only implement a finite subset of all possible unitary operations.
I want to iterate over all these ...
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Why primitive rotation is $53.13^\circ$ in the quantum Turing machine used by Vitanyi for Quantum Kolmogrov Complexity?
Right now I am going through Quantum Kolmogorov Complexity Based on Classical Descriptions by Vitanyi.
In the introduction, the author assumed the primitive rotation $\theta = 53.13^\circ$ to have ...
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Questions about the definition of the Quantum Turing Machine
I am trying to have a better understanding of the definition of the Quantum Turing Machine.
My questions:
If the output of a quantum program is the eigenvalue of the ground state of a Hamiltonian ...
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Do any quantum algorithms improve on classical SAT?
Classical algorithms can solve 3-SAT in $1.3071^n$ time (randomized) or $1.3303^n$ time (deterministic). (Reference: Best Upper Bounds on SAT )
For comparison, using Grover's algorithm on a quantum ...
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Two definitions of $QMA$
In this question, I am trying to understand the equivalence between the following two definitions of the complexity class QMA.
In Quantum Computational Complexity, John Watrous defines the class QMA ...
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Papers on using resource states to implement QFT efficiently
I recently stumbled onto the idea of using a pre-existing re-usable phase gradient to implement the QFT, instead of having to keep re-applying exponentially precise phase gates. I'm looking for papers ...
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Why is it impossible to work with polylog length encoding schemes for quantum circuits?
I am going through Quantum Computational Complexity by John Watrous. On page $12$, he said:
The encoding disallows compression: it is not possible to work with
encoding schemes that allow for ...
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Non-commutative quantum counting with aggregate constant work per increment
Classically, it's very easy to create an incrementing function that can perform up to $n$ increments with $O(n)$ work:
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Addition on a quantum computer
From reading https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0008033v1.pdf 3n qubits are required to add two n bit numbers.
For a simple arithmetic operation such as a+b+c+d where ...
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When is a non-unitary quantum system only theoretical?
Suppose we construct a non-unitary quantum system α in hilbert space. It entails that this system would have no direct parallel in quantum circuitry as it is a requirement that all quantum gates ...
