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7 papers

quant-ph2026

Conditional dependence and Scrooge ensembles in shallow random quantum circuits

Yinchen Liu, Max McGinley, Thomas Schuster +1

The output state of a 2D geometrically local shallow random quantum circuit does not have long range correlations due to its lightcone structure. But this changes if one measures a…

quant-ph2026

Efficient quantum algorithm for Heisenberg spin systems

Sergey Bravyi, David Gosset, Yinchen Liu +1

The paper proves a lower bound on the spectral gap of a broad class of Heisenberg spin Hamiltonians and uses this to design an efficient quantum adiabatic algorithm for estimating…

math.CO2026

Path-Minimality of -Energy for Connected Graphs

Yinchen Liu, Quanyu Tang

Let be a simple connected graph on vertices, and let be the eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix . For , define the -energy of…

cs.CC2026

On the Complexity of the Circuit Width Problem

Zhengfeng Ji, Yinchen Liu, Zhe'ou Zhou

Montanaro's polynomial representation expresses amplitudes of quantum circuits over the gates , , , and as normalized gaps of degree-three polynomials over $\mathbb…

quant-ph2026

Sample-efficient benchmarking of shallow all-to-all random quantum circuits

Gregory Bentsen, Bill Fefferman, Soumik Ghosh +2

Random circuit sampling (RCS) remains one of the most competitive frameworks for demonstrating quantum advantage in near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. Unfo…

cs.DS2026

Turnstile Streaming Algorithms Might (Still) as Well Be Linear Sketches, for Polynomial-Length Streams

Cheng Jiang, Yinchen Liu, Huacheng Yu

A fundamental question in streaming complexity is whether every space-efficient turnstile algorithm is implicitly a linear sketch. The landmark work of Li, Nguyen, and Woodruff [LN…