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quant-ph2026

When quantum thermal states look classical

Harald Putterman, Alexander Zlokapa, Jordan Cotler

At high temperature, quantum Gibbs states retain several classical features of the maximally mixed state: the absence of entanglement, the absence of magic, analyticity of the part…

quant-ph2026

Optimal Lower Bounds for Hamiltonian Simulation

Alexander Zlokapa, Richard R. Allen, Aram W. Harrow

For Hamiltonian , we prove asymptotically tight lower bounds on the gate and query complexities of simulating time evolution on a quantum computer. Our bounds hold…

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-ph2026

A rigorous quasipolynomial-time classical algorithm for SYK thermal expectations

Alexander Zlokapa

Estimating local observables in Gibbs states is a central problem in quantum simulation. While this task is BQP-complete at asymptotically low temperatures, the possibility of quan…

quant-ph2025

Average-case quantum complexity from glassiness

Alexander Zlokapa, Bobak T. Kiani, Eric R. Anschuetz

Glassiness -- a phenomenon in physics characterized by a rough free-energy landscape -- implies hardness for stable classical algorithms. For example, it can obstruct constant-time…

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…