# Questions tagged [quantum-computing]

Quantum computation and computational issues related to quantum mechanics

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### Are there problems that can be solved in time $2^{n-q^c}$ with $q$ qubits?

This is another attempt to formalize my former question on the topic. I'm looking for a problem for which all known classical algorithms take exponential time, but given ANY number of few qubits (...
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Update: A slightly different version of this question has been answered here. As far as I can see, a major issue with Google's recent quantum supremacy claim is that it is hard to verify the results. ...
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### Quantum Money where not even the Bank can counterfeit

The Quantum Money system proposed in "Quantum Copy-Protection and Quantum Money" has the following properties: The bank can produce bank notes in the form of quantum states. Anyone can verify that ...
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### Qubit gates in google supremacy

The gates in quantum supremacy experiment are nearest-neighbor and have spatial locality. Would this additional information help bolster IBM's argument to perhaps simulate quantum supremacy experiment ...
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### How exactly is solving the random circuit sampling problem a computation in the Church-Turing thesis sense? [closed]

Note: This has been cross-posted to Quantum Computing SE. If we assume $\mathsf{BQP} \neq \mathsf{BPP}$, then we can say with reasonable certainty that Google's random sampling experiment falsifies ...
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### Quantum advantage beyond the black-box model

Question Aaronson wrote in his thesis that “essentially all quantum algorithms that we know today—from Shor’s algorithm, as discussed previously, to Grover’s algorithm, to the quantum adiabatic ...
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### Is the wording of Google's QC Supremacy valid?

Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor was published today. Scott Aaronson posted a few weeks ago a post about this paper and it was clear we will see a Nature or Science ...
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### Results comparing BQP and NEXP

Are there oracle results with $$P=NP\neq BQP=NEXP\mbox{ and }P=NP\neq BQP\neq NEXP?$$ Also is there a $PCP$ characterization of $BQP$ like $$PCP(O(poly(n)),1)=PCP(O(poly(n)),O(poly(n)))=NEXP?$$
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Today in New York and all over the world Christos Papadimitriou's birthday is celebrated. This is a good opportunity to ask about the relations between Christos' complexity class PPAD (and his other ...
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### Hidden subgroup problems in a tower of subgroups

Let $H$ be a hidden subgroup of $G_1$ that is indistinguishable from subgroup $H^{\prime}$ by quantum Fourier sampling. Now take a larger group $G_2$ such that it contains $G_1$. Now if I do quantum ...
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### Quantum security of cryptosystems

One of the main candidates for PQ cryptography is code based cryptography (other than lattice based). The Niederreiter cryptosystem based on goppa codes is shown to be resistant to hidden subgroup ...
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### Given a subset of of the hypercube and an affine transform of it, find the affine map

This is a follow up to this resolved question. Suppose we are given a set of bitvectors $A\subseteq\mathbb{F}_2^d$ and an invertible affine transformed copy of it $$B=\{Mx + s\mid x\in A\}$$ for some ...
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### Given a subset of the hypercube and a copy translated by s, find s

Problem: Suppose we are given an $n$ element subset $A\subseteq\{0,1\}^d$ of the $d$ dimensional hypercube and a translated copy $B= A+s$ by some secret $s\in\{0,1\}^d$. Find $s$ as fast as possible ...
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### Grover's algorithm, M out of N, when M is large

The more general version of Grover's algorithm searches for one of $M$ entries that match a criterion, out of $N$ total entries. I have seen it written that this takes $O(\sqrt{N/M})$ iterations, to ...
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### QPIP minimal client quantum capabilities

It is conjectured that classical (BPP) client blind quantum computing is implausible according to Aaronson et al: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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### Why exactly are complexity theorists interested in closed timelike curves?

Context: There are several papers that study the implications of closed timelike curves (CTCs) to quantum complexity. In 2008, Aaronson and Watrous published their famous paper on this topic which ...
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### Lower bound on alternations needed in $BQP$ versus $PH$ result?

What is the fastest $f(n)$ the relatively new result of oracle separation of $\mathsf{BQP}$ from $\mathsf{PH}$ provides such that ${\#\mathsf{SAT}}\not\subseteq\mathsf{FP}^{\mathsf{PH}[O(f(n))]}$ ...
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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 ...