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quant-ph2026

The quantum query complexity of the semigroup product problem

Troy Lee, Miklos Santha

We study the quantum query complexity of computing a semigroup product , when one query reveals one input element and the multiplication table is given. For a finite…

quant-ph2025

Reconquering Bell sampling on qudits: stabilizer learning and testing, quantum pseudorandomness bounds, and more

Jonathan Allcock, Joao F. Doriguello, Gábor Ivanyos +1

Bell sampling is a simple yet powerful tool based on measuring two copies of a quantum state in the Bell basis, and has found applications in a plethora of problems related to stab…

quant-ph2025

On generating direct powers of dynamical Lie algebras

Jonathan Allcock, Miklos Santha, Pei Yuan +1

The expressibility and trainability of parameterized quantum circuits has been shown to be intimately related to their associated dynamical Lie algebras (DLAs). From a quantum algo…

quant-ph2024

Quasi-quantum states and the quasi-quantum PCP theorem

Itai Arad, Miklos Santha

We introduce -local quasi-quantum states: a superset of the regular quantum states, defined by relaxing the positivity constraint. We show that a -local quasi-quantum state o…

quant-ph2024

On the dynamical Lie algebras of quantum approximate optimization algorithms

Jonathan Allcock, Miklos Santha, Pei Yuan +1

Dynamical Lie algebras (DLAs) have emerged as a valuable tool in the study of parameterized quantum circuits, helping to characterize both their expressiveness and trainability. In…

quant-ph2024

Beyond Bell sampling: stabilizer state learning and quantum pseudorandomness lower bounds on qudits

Jonathan Allcock, Joao F. Doriguello, Gábor Ivanyos +1

Bell sampling is a simple yet powerful measurement primitive that has recently attracted a lot of attention, and has proven to be a valuable tool in studying stabiliser states. Unf…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

On the quantum time complexity of divide and conquer

Jonathan Allcock, Jinge Bao, Aleksandrs Belovs +2

We initiate a systematic study of the time complexity of quantum divide and conquer algorithms for classical problems. We establish generic conditions under which search and minimi…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Constant-depth circuits for Boolean functions and quantum memory devices using multi-qubit gates

Jonathan Allcock, Jinge Bao, Joao F. Doriguello +2

We explore the power of the unbounded Fan-Out gate and the Global Tunable gates generated by Ising-type Hamiltonians in constructing constant-depth quantum circuits, with particula…

quant-ph2021★ 13 cited

Quantum algorithm for stochastic optimal stopping problems with applications in finance

João F. Doriguello, Alessandro Luongo, Jinge Bao +2

The famous least squares Monte Carlo (LSM) algorithm combines linear least square regression with Monte Carlo simulation to approximately solve problems in stochastic optimal stopp…

quant-ph2021

Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Variants of Subset-Sum via Dynamic Programming

Jonathan Allcock, Yassine Hamoudi, Antoine Joux +2

Subset-Sum is an NP-complete problem where one must decide if a multiset of integers contains a subset whose elements sum to a target value . The best-known classical and qu…

quant-ph2021★ 2 cited

Quantum Alphatron: quantum advantage for learning with kernels and noise

Siyi Yang, Naixu Guo, Miklos Santha +1

At the interface of machine learning and quantum computing, an important question is what distributions can be learned provably with optimal sample complexities and with quantum-ac…

quant-ph2021

Characterizing the intersection of QMA and coQMA

Serge Massar, Miklos Santha

We show that the functional analogue of QMAcoQMA, denoted F(QMAcoQMA), equals the complexity class Total Functional QMA (TFQMA). To prove this we need to introduce alte…

quant-ph2020★ 11 cited

Quantum algorithms for hedging and the learning of Ising models

Patrick Rebentrost, Yassine Hamoudi, Maharshi Ray +3

A paradigmatic algorithm for online learning is the Hedge algorithm by Freund and Schapire. An allocation into different strategies is chosen for multiple rounds and each round inc…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Discrete logarithm and Diffie-Hellman problems in identity black-box groups

Gabor Ivanyos, Antoine Joux, Miklos Santha

We investigate the computational complexity of the discrete logarithm, the computational Diffie-Hellman and the decisional Diffie-Hellman problems in some identity black-box groups…

quant-ph2018

Strategies for quantum races

Troy Lee, Maharshi Ray, Miklos Santha

We initiate the study of quantum races, games where two or more quantum computers compete to solve a computational problem. While the problem of dueling algorithms has been studied…

quant-ph2018★ 1 cited

On learning linear functions from subset and its applications in quantum computing

Gábor Ivanyos, Anupam Prakash, Miklos Santha

Let be the finite field of size and let be a linear function. We introduce the {\em Learning From Subset} problem LFS$(q,…

quant-ph2018★ 2 cited

Total Functions in QMA

Serge Massar, Miklos Santha

The complexity class QMA is the quantum analog of the classical complexity class NP. The functional analogs of NP and QMA, called functional NP (FNP) and functional QMA (FQMA), con…

quant-ph2017★ 225 cited

Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them

Divesh Aggarwal, Gavin K. Brennen, Troy Lee +2

The key cryptographic protocols used to secure the internet and financial transactions of today are all susceptible to attack by the development of a sufficiently large quantum com…

quant-ph2016★ 10 cited

Separations in communication complexity using cheat sheets and information complexity

Anurag Anshu, Aleksandrs Belovs, Shalev Ben-David +5

While exponential separations are known between quantum and randomized communication complexity for partial functions (Raz, STOC 1999), the best known separation between these meas…

quant-ph2015

Linear time algorithm for quantum 2SAT

Itai Arad, Miklos Santha, Aarthi Sundaram +1

A canonical result about satisfiability theory is that the 2-SAT problem can be solved in linear time, despite the NP-hardness of the 3-SAT problem. In the quantum 2-SAT problem, w…

quant-ph2014★ 71 cited

Nonlocality and conflicting interest games

Anna Pappa, Niraj Kumar, Thomas Lawson +4

Nonlocality enables two parties to win specific games with probabilities strictly higher than allowed by any classical theory. Nevertheless, all known such examples consider games…

quant-ph2014

An efficient quantum algorithm for finding hidden parabolic subgroups in the general linear group

Thomas Decker, Gábor Ivanyos, Raghav Kulkarni +2

In the theory of algebraic groups, parabolic subgroups form a crucial building block in the structural studies. In the case of general linear groups over a finite field , give…

quant-ph2013★ 2 cited

Polynomial time quantum algorithms for certain bivariate hidden polynomial problems

Thomas Decker, Peter Hoyer, Gabor Ivanyos +1

We present a new method for solving the hidden polynomial graph problem (HPGP) which is a special case of the hidden polynomial problem (HPP). The new approach yields an efficient…

quant-ph2012

Improved Quantum Query Algorithms for Triangle Finding and Associativity Testing

Troy Lee, Frederic Magniez, Miklos Santha

We show that the quantum query complexity of detecting if an -vertex graph contains a triangle is . This improves the previous best algorithm of Belovs making $O(n^{…