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most citedDoes provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability?

78 citations · 244 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

quant-ph2026

Pushing beyond the memory barrier in propagation algorithms with randomization

Manuel S. Rudolph, Ricard Puig, Slimane Thabet +1

Performant classical tools for simulating quantum circuits are important for benchmarking and supporting upcoming quantum devices. Pauli propagation offers promising capabilities,…

quant-ph2026

Dissipation accelerates quantum and classical simulation of open-system dynamics

Armando Angrisani, Ricard Puig, Yanting Teng +1

Simulating open quantum systems reveals how environmental coupling shapes relaxation, excitation transport, and the dynamics of quantum correlations. On quantum hardware, dissipati…

quant-ph2026

The cost of simulating classically tractable quantum circuits and dynamics

Su Yeon Chang, Supanut Thanasilp, Zoë Holmes +1

Determining whether a quantum evolution can be efficiently simulated classically is central to understanding the boundary between classical and quantum computation. However, polyno…

quant-ph2026

Double-bracket quantum algorithms for thermal state preparation

Andrew Wright, Reyhaneh Aghaei Saem, Supanut Thanasilp +2

We propose quantum algorithms for preparing thermal states via the simulation of the thermofield double states. The key idea is to leverage double-bracket quantum algorithms to imp…

quant-ph2026

Leveraging Symmetry Merging in Pauli Propagation

Yanting Teng, Su Yeon Chang, Manuel S. Rudolph +1

We introduce a symmetry-adapted framework for simulating quantum dynamics based on Pauli propagation. When a quantum circuit possesses a symmetry, many Pauli strings evolve redunda…

quant-ph2025

Pauli Propagation: A Computational Framework for Simulating Quantum Systems

Manuel S. Rudolph, Tyson Jones, Yanting Teng +2

Classical methods to simulate quantum systems are not only a key element of the physicist's toolkit for studying many-body models but are also increasingly important for verifying…

quant-ph2025

Role of scrambling and noise in temporal information processing with quantum systems

Weijie Xiong, Zoë Holmes, Armando Angrisani +3

Scrambling quantum systems have attracted attention as effective substrates for temporal information processing. Here we consider a quantum reservoir processing framework that capt…

quant-ph2025

A unifying account of warm start guarantees for patches of quantum landscapes

Hela Mhiri, Ricard Puig, Sacha Lerch +4

Barren plateaus are fundamentally a statement about quantum loss landscapes on average but there can, and generally will, exist patches of barren plateau landscapes with substantia…

quant-ph2025★ 6 cited

Simulating quantum circuits with arbitrary local noise using Pauli Propagation

Armando Angrisani, Antonio A. Mele, Manuel S. Rudolph +2

We present a polynomial-time classical algorithm for estimating expectation values of arbitrary observables on typical quantum circuits under any incoherent local noise, including…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Efficient quantum-enhanced classical simulation for patches of quantum landscapes

Sacha Lerch, Ricard Puig, Manuel S. Rudolph +5

Understanding the capabilities of classical simulation methods is key to identifying where quantum computers are advantageous. Not only does this ensure that quantum computers are…

quant-ph2024★ 23 cited

Classically estimating observables of noiseless quantum circuits

Armando Angrisani, Alexander Schmidhuber, Manuel S. Rudolph +3

We present a classical algorithm based on Pauli propagation for estimating expectation values of arbitrary observables on random unstructured quantum circuits across all circuit ar…

quant-ph2024★ 21 cited

Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks are Effectively Classically Simulable

Pablo Bermejo, Paolo Braccia, Manuel S. Rudolph +3

Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) are widely regarded as a promising model for Quantum Machine Learning (QML). In this work we tie their heuristic success to two facts.…

quant-ph2024★ 27 cited

Variational quantum simulation: a case study for understanding warm starts

Ricard Puig, Marc Drudis, Supanut Thanasilp +1

The barren plateau phenomenon, characterized by loss gradients that vanish exponentially with system size, poses a challenge to scaling variational quantum algorithms. Here we expl…

quant-ph2023★ 29 cited

On fundamental aspects of quantum extreme learning machines

Weijie Xiong, Giorgio Facelli, Mehrad Sahebi +4

Quantum Extreme Learning Machines (QELMs) have emerged as a promising framework for quantum machine learning. Their appeal lies in the rich feature map induced by the dynamics of a…

quant-ph2023★ 78 cited

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability?

M. Cerezo, Martin Larocca, Diego García-Martín +9

A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room and…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Classical surrogate simulation of quantum systems with LOWESA

Manuel S. Rudolph, Enrico Fontana, Zoë Holmes +1

We introduce LOWESA as a classical algorithm for faithfully simulating quantum systems via a classically constructed surrogate expectation landscape. After an initial overhead to b…

quant-ph2023★ 41 cited

Trainability barriers and opportunities in quantum generative modeling

Manuel S. Rudolph, Sacha Lerch, Supanut Thanasilp +5

Quantum generative models provide inherently efficient sampling strategies and thus show promise for achieving an advantage using quantum hardware. In this work, we investigate the…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

Exponential concentration in quantum kernel methods

Supanut Thanasilp, Samson Wang, M. Cerezo +1

Kernel methods in Quantum Machine Learning (QML) have recently gained significant attention as a potential candidate for achieving a quantum advantage in data analysis. Among other…