Unanswered Questions
177 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Explicit Lieb-Robinson Velocity Bounds
Lieb-Robinson bounds describe how effects are propagated through a system due to a local Hamiltonian. They are often described in the form
$$
\left|[A,B(t)]\right|\leq Ce^{vt-l},
$$
where $A$ and $B$ ...
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Explicit Conversion Between Universal Gate Sets
I'm interested in the conversion between different sets of universal gates. For example, it is known that each of the following sets is universal for quantum computation:
$\{T,H,\textrm{cNOT}\}$
$\{H,...
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Quantum machine learning after Ewin Tang
Recently, a series of research papers have been released (this, this and this, also this) that provide classical algorithms with the same runtime as quantum machine learning algorithms for the same ...
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Quantum simulation of environment-assisted quantum walks in photosynthetic energy transfer
This question is related to Can the theory of quantum computation assist in the miniaturization of transistors? and Is Quantum Biocomputing ahead of us?
About 10 years ago, several papers discussed ...
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Quantum walk with binary tree
I’m trying to grok quantum walks, and would like to create an example that walks a perfect binary tree to find the one and only marked leaf node. Is this possible? If so, suppose the depth of the tree ...
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Quantum Walk: Why the need of adding “tail” nodes to the root?
As stated in the question, I have found in several papers (e.g. 1, 2) that in order to perform a quantum walk on a given tree it is necessary to add some nodes to the root $r$, say $r^{'}$ and $r^{"}$....
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Reference that explains how to read 3d topological diagrams for surface code computations
I like making diagrams to describe computations. For the surface code, an excellent tool is 3d topological diagrams. Here is an example diagram (made by me in SketchUp):
The basic idea is that white ...
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Devising “structured initial guesses” for random parametrized quantum circuits to avoid getting stuck in a flat plateau
The recent McClean et al. paper Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes shows that for a wide class of reasonable parameterized quantum circuits, the probability that the ...
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Is there a list of accessible open problems in quantum computing from a theoretical computer science perspective?
(Classical) theoretical computer science (TCS) has a number of outstanding open problems that can easily be instantiated in a manner that is accessible to a wider general public.
For example, ...
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Estimate/determine Bures separability probabilities making use of corresponding Hilbert-Schmidt probabilities
For two-qubit states, represented by a $4\times 4$ density matrix, the generic state is described by 15 real parameters. For ease of calculation, it can help to consider restricted families of states, ...
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Active improving of nanodiamond surfaces for NV centers?
This question is related (and complementary) to "Passive improving of nanodiamond surfaces for NV centers?".
Nitrogen-Vacancy centers (NVs) have astonishing quantum properties, which make them ...
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Entanglement transfer of spin-entangled triplet-pair states between flying qubits and stationary qubits
The context: We are in the solid state. After a photon absortion by a system with a singlet ground state, the system undergoes the spin-conserving fission of one spin singlet exciton into two spin ...
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Does the Curry-Howard correspondence have a quantum-specific type system?
In Wikipedia we can read that
the Curry–Howard correspondence is a correspondence between formal proof calculi and type systems for models of computation. In particular, it splits into two ...
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What is the difference between quantum control and quantum optimal control?
In the context of quantum control theory, it is common to see references to both quantum control and quantum optimal control (e.g. 0910.2350 or the guide on qutip quantrum control functions).
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Sequential circuit using quantum gates
Without feedback/loop how can we build a sequential circuit? The basic feature of sequential circuit is that is depends not only on the current inputs but also on the previous inputs/outputs. I've ...
