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20222026
most citedClassically estimating observables of noiseless quantum circuits

23 citations · 72 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

quant-ph2026

Polynomial-time classical algorithms for mean-field models up to the glass transition

Alexander Schmidhuber, Alexander Zlokapa

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model is a strongly interacting fermionic system that has been well-studied in condensed matter and high energy physics. It is highly quantum: Gaussian states…

quant-ph2026

On The Complexity of Redundancy-Free Quantum Hamiltonians

Matthew B. Hastings, Alexander Schmidhuber

We consider a class of redudancy-free Hamiltonians, which are those where the trace vanishes for any product of Hamiltonian terms in which at least one term appears an odd number o…

cs.DS2026

The Kikuchi Hierarchy is Sharp for XOR

Alexander Schmidhuber, Matthew B. Hastings

Planted noisy XOR and the strong refutation of random XOR are governed by a conjectured trade-off between signal strength and time: Level of the Kikuchi hierarchy shou…

math.CO2026

A Spectral Proof of the Hypergraph Moore Bound

Alexander Schmidhuber, Matthew B. Hastings

A nonempty subfamily of a -uniform hypergraph is an \emph{even cover} if every vertex lies in an even number of its hyperedges; for these are edge-disjoint unions of cycle…

quant-ph2026

Adiabatic Quantum Phase Estimation

Alexander Schmidhuber, Seth Lloyd

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a central algorithmic primitive that estimates eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian up to precision in Heisenberg-limited time . Standard ga…

cond-mat.dis-nn2026

The free energy limit of the SYK model at high temperature

David Gamarnik, Francisco Pernice, Alexander Schmidhuber +1

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a disordered quantum mean-field model studied in condensed matter physics and the holographic theory of black holes. Its structural properties…

quant-ph2025

Quartic quantum speedups for community detection

Alexander Schmidhuber, Alexander Zlokapa

Community detection is a foundational problem in data science. Its natural extension to hypergraphs captures higher-order correlations beyond pairwise interactions. In this work, w…

quant-ph2025

Hamiltonian Decoded Quantum Interferometry

Alexander Schmidhuber, Jonathan Z. Lu, Noah Shutty +3

We introduce Hamiltonian Decoded Quantum Interferometry (HDQI), a quantum algorithm that utilizes coherent Bell measurements and the symplectic representation of the Pauli group to…

quant-ph2025

Constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodic dynamics

Dmitry A. Abanin, Rajeev Acharya, Laleh Aghababaie-Beni +262

Quantum observables in the form of few-point correlators are the key to characterizing the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. In dynamics with fast entanglement generation, qua…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Gate-tunable band-edge in few-layer MoS

Michele Masseroni, Isaac Soltero, James G. Hugh +9

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered significant research interest due to the variation in band-edge locations within the hexagonal Brillouin zone between single-l…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Phase estimation with partially randomized time evolution

Jakob Günther, Freek Witteveen, Alexander Schmidhuber +3

Quantum phase estimation combined with Hamiltonian simulation is the most promising algorithmic framework to computing ground state energies on quantum computers. Its main computat…

math.GT2025★ 2 cited

A quantum algorithm for Khovanov homology

Alexander Schmidhuber, Michele Reilly, Paolo Zanardi +2

Khovanov homology is a topological knot invariant that categorifies the Jones polynomial, recognizes the unknot, and is conjectured to appear as an observable in supersymmetri…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Provable quantum speedups for computing persistence in topological data analysis

Casper Gyurik, Alexander Schmidhuber, Robbie King +2

Topological data analysis (TDA) aims to extract noise-robust features from a data set by examining the number and persistence of holes in its topology. We provide an efficient quan…

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★ 16 cited

Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry

Stephen P. Jordan, Noah Shutty, Mary Wootters +6

Achieving superpolynomial speedups for optimization has long been a central goal for quantum algorithms. Here we introduce Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI), a quantum algorithm…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Quartic quantum speedups for planted inference

Alexander Schmidhuber, Ryan O'Donnell, Robin Kothari +1

We describe a quantum algorithm for the Planted Noisy XOR problem (also known as sparse Learning Parity with Noise) that achieves a nearly quartic (th power) speedup over the…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Measurement events relative to temporal quantum reference frames

Ladina Hausmann, Alexander Schmidhuber, Esteban Castro-Ruiz

The Page-Wootters formalism is a proposal for reconciling the background-dependent, quantum-mechanical notion of time with the background independence of general relativity. Howeve…

quant-ph2022★ 15 cited

Complexity-Theoretic Limitations on Quantum Algorithms for Topological Data Analysis

Alexander Schmidhuber, Seth Lloyd

Quantum algorithms for topological data analysis (TDA) seem to provide an exponential advantage over the best classical approach while remaining immune to dequantization procedures…