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20182026
most citedLinear growth of quantum circuit complexity

160 citations · 653 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

quant-ph2026

On the pseudorandomness of simple quantum processes

Jesko Dujmovic, Jonas Haferkamp, Alexander Poremba

Can simple processes appear highly complex? Gowers (Comb. Prob. Comp. '96) conjectured that repeatedly composing local random reversible operations can yield global permutations th…

quant-ph2026

Ideal random quantum circuits pass the LXEB test

Nicholas Hunter-Jones, Jonas Haferkamp

We show that noiseless random quantum circuits pass the linear cross-entropy benchmark (LXEB) test with high probability. If the circuits are linear depth, and thus form unitary 4-…

quant-ph2025

Separating QMA from QCMA with a classical oracle

John Bostanci, Jonas Haferkamp, Chinmay Nirkhe +1

We construct a classical oracle proving that, in a relativized setting, the set of languages decidable by an efficient quantum verifier with a quantum witness (QMA) is strictly big…

quant-ph2025

Anticoncentration is (almost) all you need

Markus Heinrich, Jonas Haferkamp, Ingo Roth +1

Until very recently, it was generally believed that the (approximate) 2-design property is strictly stronger than anticoncentration of random quantum circuits, mainly because it wa…

quant-ph2025

Will it glue? On short-depth designs beyond the unitary group

Lorenzo Grevink, Jonas Haferkamp, Markus Heinrich +4

We study the formation of short-depth designs beyond the unitary group. We provide a range of results on several groups of broad interest in quantum information science: the Cliffo…

hep-th2025★ 41 cited

Quantum complexity in gravity, quantum field theory, and quantum information science

Stefano Baiguera, Vijay Balasubramanian, Pawel Caputa +4

Quantum complexity quantifies the difficulty of preparing a state or implementing a unitary transformation with limited resources. Applications range from quantum computation to co…

quant-ph2024

Efficient Quantum Pseudorandomness from Hamiltonian Phase States

John Bostanci, Jonas Haferkamp, Dominik Hangleiter +1

Quantum pseudorandomness has found applications in many areas of quantum information, ranging from entanglement theory, to models of scrambling phenomena in chaotic quantum systems…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Benchmarking bosonic and fermionic dynamics

Jadwiga Wilkens, Marios Ioannou, Ellen Derbyshire +4

Analog quantum simulation allows for assessing static and dynamical properties of strongly correlated quantum systems to high precision. To perform simulations outside the reach of…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Random unitaries in extremely low depth

Thomas Schuster, Jonas Haferkamp, Hsin-Yuan Huang

We prove that random quantum circuits on any geometry, including a 1D line, can form approximate unitary designs over qubits in depth. In a similar manner, we construc…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Incompressibility and spectral gaps of random circuits

Chi-Fang Chen, Jeongwan Haah, Jonas Haferkamp +3

Random reversible and quantum circuits form random walks on the alternating group and unitary group , respectively. Known bounds on the spectr…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Complexity-constrained quantum thermodynamics

Anthony Munson, Naga Bhavya Teja Kothakonda, Jonas Haferkamp +3

Quantum complexity measures the difficulty of realizing a quantum process, such as preparing a state or implementing a unitary. We present an approach to quantifying the thermodyna…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Quantum complexity phase transitions in monitored random circuits

Ryotaro Suzuki, Jonas Haferkamp, Jens Eisert +1

Recently, the dynamics of quantum systems that involve both unitary evolution and quantum measurements have attracted attention due to the exotic phenomenon of measurement-induced…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

On the average-case complexity of learning output distributions of quantum circuits

Alexander Nietner, Marios Ioannou, Ryan Sweke +4

In this work, we show that learning the output distributions of brickwork random quantum circuits is average-case hard in the statistical query model. This learning model is widely…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

On the moments of random quantum circuits and robust quantum complexity

Jonas Haferkamp

We prove new lower bounds on the growth of robust quantum circuit complexity -- the minimal number of gates to approximate a unitary up to an error of in operator…

quant-ph2022★ 58 cited

Shallow shadows: Expectation estimation using low-depth random Clifford circuits

Christian Bertoni, Jonas Haferkamp, Marcel Hinsche +3

We provide practical and powerful schemes for learning many properties of an unknown n-qubit quantum state using a sparing number of copies of the state. Specifically, we present a…

quant-ph2022★ 87 cited

Random quantum circuits are approximate unitary -designs in depth

Jonas Haferkamp

The applications of random quantum circuits range from quantum computing and quantum many-body systems to the physics of black holes. Many of these applications are related to the…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Equivalence of contextuality and Wigner function negativity in continuous-variable quantum optics

Jonas Haferkamp, Juani Bermejo-Vega

One of the central foundational questions of physics is to identify what makes a system quantum as opposed to classical. One seminal notion of classicality of a quantum system is t…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Learnability of the output distributions of local quantum circuits

Marcel Hinsche, Marios Ioannou, Alexander Nietner +6

There is currently a large interest in understanding the potential advantages quantum devices can offer for probabilistic modelling. In this work we investigate, within two differe…

quant-ph2021★ 27 cited

Resource theory of quantum uncomplexity

Nicole Yunger Halpern, Naga B. T. Kothakonda, Jonas Haferkamp +3

Quantum complexity is emerging as a key property of many-body systems, including black holes, topological materials, and early quantum computers. A state's complexity quantifies th…

quant-ph2021★ 160 cited

Linear growth of quantum circuit complexity

Jonas Haferkamp, Philippe Faist, Naga B. T. Kothakonda +2

Quantifying quantum states' complexity is a key problem in various subfields of science, from quantum computing to black-hole physics. We prove a prominent conjecture by Brown and…

quant-ph2021★ 29 cited

Emergent statistical mechanics from properties of disordered random matrix product states

Jonas Haferkamp, Christian Bertoni, Ingo Roth +1

The study of generic properties of quantum states has led to an abundance of insightful results. A meaningful set of states that can be efficiently prepared in experiments are grou…

quant-ph2020★ 32 cited

Improved spectral gaps for random quantum circuits: large local dimensions and all-to-all interactions

Jonas Haferkamp, Nicholas Hunter-Jones

Random quantum circuits are a central concept in quantum information theory with applications ranging from demonstrations of quantum computational advantage to descriptions of scra…

quant-ph2020★ 51 cited

Efficient unitary designs with a system-size independent number of non-Clifford gates

Jonas Haferkamp, Felipe Montealegre-Mora, Markus Heinrich +3

Many quantum information protocols require the implementation of random unitaries. Because it takes exponential resources to produce Haar-random unitaries drawn from the full -q…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 33 cited

Dynamical structure factors of dynamical quantum simulators

Maria Laura Baez, Marcel Goihl, Jonas Haferkamp +3

The dynamical structure factor is one of the experimental quantities crucial in scrutinizing the validity of the microscopic description of strongly correlated systems. However, de…