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most citedStrong random unitaries and fast scrambling

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quant-ph2026

Lower Bounds for Preprocessing Attacks on Quantum Cryptography

Fangqi Dong, Alex Lombardi

We prove near-optimal lower bounds for preprocessing attacks on quantum cryptography in the random oracle model. Specifically, we show that a -query adversary with qubits of…

quant-ph2026

Explicit Separations for One-Query Unitary Synthesis

Fangqi Dong, Alex Lombardi, Fermi Ma

The unitary synthesis problem (Aaronson-Kuperberg, CCC 2007) asks whether every -qubit unitary is computable by efficient quantum circuits relative to some classical oracle…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Lazy Sampling and Path Recording for Any Group

Ben Foxman, Alex Lombardi, Fermi Ma +2

A central challenge in quantum algorithms and cryptography is reasoning about algorithms with oracle access to a random group element (e.g. a random function, permutation, or unita…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Strong random unitaries and fast scrambling

Thomas Schuster, Fermi Ma, Alex Lombardi +2

Understanding how fast physical systems can resemble Haar-random unitaries is a fundamental question in physics. Many experiments of interest in quantum gravity and many-body physi…

quant-ph2023

A one-query lower bound for unitary synthesis and breaking quantum cryptography

Alex Lombardi, Fermi Ma, John Wright

The Unitary Synthesis Problem (Aaronson-Kuperberg 2007) asks whether any -qubit unitary can be implemented by an efficient quantum algorithm augmented with an oracle tha…

cs.CR2021

Post-Quantum Zero Knowledge, Revisited (or: How to Do Quantum Rewinding Undetectably)

Alex Lombardi, Fermi Ma, Nicholas Spooner

A major difficulty in quantum rewinding is the fact that measurement is destructive: extracting information from a quantum state irreversibly changes it. This is especially problem…