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6 papers

quant-ph2026

Improved Lower Bounds for QAC0

Malvika Raj Joshi, Avishay Tal, Francisca Vasconcelos +1

In this work, we prove the strongest known lower bounds for QAC, allowing polynomially many gates and ancillae. Our main results show that: (1) Depth-3 QAC circuits cannot…

quant-ph2026

Constant-Depth Unitary Preparation of Dicke States

Malvika Raj Joshi, Francisca Vasconcelos

Dicke states serve as a critical resource in quantum metrology, communication, and computation. However, unitary preparation of Dicke states is limited to logarithmic depth in stan…

quant-ph2025

Random Unitaries in Constant (Quantum) Time

Ben Foxman, Natalie Parham, Francisca Vasconcelos +1

Random unitaries are a central object of study in quantum information, with applications to quantum computation, quantum many-body physics, and quantum cryptography. Recent work ha…

quant-ph2025

Methods for Reducing Ancilla-Overhead in Block Encodings

Francisca Vasconcelos, András Gilyén

Block encodings are a fundamental primitive in quantum algorithms, but can often have large ancilla overhead. In this work, we introduce novel techniques for reducing this overhead…

quant-ph2025

Learning shallow quantum circuits with many-qubit gates

Francisca Vasconcelos, Hsin-Yuan Huang

We present the first computationally-efficient algorithm for average-case learning of shallow quantum circuits with many-qubit gates. Specifically, we provide a quasi-polynomial ti…

quant-ph2025

A Quadratic Speedup in Finding Nash Equilibria of Quantum Zero-Sum Games

Francisca Vasconcelos, Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis, Panayotis Mertikopoulos +2

Recent developments in domains such as non-local games, quantum interactive proofs, and quantum generative adversarial networks have renewed interest in quantum game theory and, sp…