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Publications (18)

quant-ph2025

End-to-End Quantum Algorithms for the Jones Polynomial

Tuomas Laakkonen, Enrico Rinaldi, Chris N. Self +6

We present an end-to-end algorithmic pipeline where a noisy digital quantum computer is used to approximate the value of the Jones polynomial at the fifth root of unity for any inp…

hep-th2020

Knitting Wormholes by Entanglement in Supergravity

Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Gábor Sárosi

We construct a single-boundary wormhole geometry in type IIB supergravity by perturbing two stacks of extremal D3-branes in the decoupling limit. The solution interpolates from…

hep-th2020

Quantum Complexity of Time Evolution with Chaotic Hamiltonians

Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Arjun Kar +1

We study the quantum complexity of time evolution in large- chaotic systems, with the SYK model as our main example. This complexity is expected to increase linearly for exponen…

hep-th2021

Complexity Growth in Integrable and Chaotic Models

Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Arjun Kar +2

We use the SYK family of models with Majorana fermions to study the complexity of time evolution, formulated as the shortest geodesic length on the unitary group manifold betwe…

quant-ph2025

Certified randomness amplification by dynamically probing remote random quantum states

Minzhao Liu, Pradeep Niroula, Matthew DeCross +49

Cryptography depends on truly unpredictable numbers, but physical sources emit biased or correlated bits. Quantum mechanics enables the amplification of imperfect randomness into n…

quant-ph2024

Probing critical states of matter on a digital quantum computer

Reza Haghshenas, Eli Chertkov, Matthew DeCross +11

Although quantum mechanics underpins the microscopic behavior of all materials, its effects are often obscured at the macroscopic level by thermal fluctuations. A notable exception…

quant-ph2025

Controlled Gate Networks: Theory and Application to Eigenvalue Estimation

Max Bee-Lindgren, Zhengrong Qian, Matthew DeCross +5

We introduce a new scheme for quantum circuit design called controlled gate networks. Rather than trying to reduce the complexity of individual unitary operations, the new strategy…

quant-ph2022

Qubit-reuse compilation with mid-circuit measurement and reset

Matthew DeCross, Eli Chertkov, Megan Kohagen +1

A number of commercially available quantum computers, such as those based on trapped-ion or superconducting qubits, can now perform mid-circuit measurements and resets. In addition…

quant-ph2026

Fully optimised variational simulation of a dynamical quantum phase transition on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Lesley Gover, Vinul Wimalaweera, Fariha Azad +3

We time-evolve a translationally invariant quantum state on the Quantinuum H1-1 trapped-ion quantum processor, studying the dynamical quantum phase transition of the transverse fie…

quant-ph2026

Digital quantum magnetism on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Reza Haghshenas, Eli Chertkov, Michael Mills +56

Digital quantum matter -- realized when discrete quantum gates approximate continuous time evolution -- is susceptible to heating into chaotic, structureless states. If digitizatio…

quant-ph2024

The computational power of random quantum circuits in arbitrary geometries

Matthew DeCross, Reza Haghshenas, Minzhao Liu +49

Empirical evidence for a gap between the computational powers of classical and quantum computers has been provided by experiments that sample the output distributions of two-dimens…

quant-ph2024

Evidence of Scaling Advantage for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on a Classically Intractable Problem

Ruslan Shaydulin, Changhao Li, Shouvanik Chakrabarti +26

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a leading candidate algorithm for solving optimization problems on quantum computers. However, the potential of QAOA to tac…

hep-th2018

Binding Complexity and Multiparty Entanglement

Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Arjun Kar +1

We introduce "binding complexity", a new notion of circuit complexity which quantifies the difficulty of distributing entanglement among multiple parties, each consisting of many l…

quant-ph2025

Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor

Minzhao Liu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Pradeep Niroula +29

While quantum computers have the potential to perform a wide range of practically important tasks beyond the capabilities of classical computers, realizing this potential remains a…

quant-ph2026

Demonstrating an unconditional separation between quantum and classical information resources

William Kretschmer, Sabee Grewal, Matthew DeCross +8

A longstanding goal in quantum information science is to demonstrate quantum computations that cannot be feasibly reproduced on a classical computer. Such demonstrations mark major…

quant-ph2025

Helios: A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer

Anthony Ransford, M. S. Allman, Jake Arkinstall +183

We report on Quantinuum Helios, a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor based on the quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) architecture. Helios features Ba hyperfine…

hep-th2018

Entanglement Entropy and the Colored Jones Polynomial

Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Jackson Fliss +3

We study the multi-party entanglement structure of states in Chern-Simons theory created by performing the path integral on 3-manifolds with linked torus boundaries, called link co…

quant-ph2026

Computing with many encoded logical qubits beyond break-even

Shival Dasu, Matthew DeCross, Andrew Y. Guo +42

High-rate quantum error correcting (QEC) codes encode many logical qubits in a given number of physical qubits, making them promising candidates for quantum computation. Implementi…