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Relation between quantum entanglement and quantum state complexity
Both quantum entanglement and quantum state complexity are important in quantum information processing. They are usually highly correlated, i.e., roughly a state with a higher entanglement corresponds ...
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Is HHL still BQP-complete when the matrix entries are only in {0,1}?
I'm studying BQP-completeness proofs of a number of interesting problems of Janzing and Wocjan, and Wocjan and Zhang. Janzing and Wocjan show that estimating entries of matrix powers $(A^m)_{ij}$ with ...
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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 Generalized Quantum Stein's Lemma and why is it important?
I'm sensing a lot of buzz about potential re-proofs of the Generalized Quantum Stein's Lemma - a generalization of the quantum counterpart to the classical Stein's Lemma, which is of some importance ...
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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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Are there separable $\rho$ that cannot be decomposed with less than $\operatorname{rank}(\rho)^2$ pure product states?
In What separable $\rho$ only admit separable pure decompositions with more than $\mathrm{rank}(\rho)$ terms?, examples were given of separable states $\rho$ with separable decompositions requiring ...
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Anti-symmetrization on the lattice
Assume, I'm using a system of qubits to simulate a fermionic system.
If I'm using the second-quantized formalism (e.g. orbitals in quantum chemistry), the anti-symmetric nature of the fermionic wave ...
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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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Empirical Algorithmics for Near-Term Quantum Computing
In Empirical Algorithmics, researchers aim to understand the performance of algorithms through analyzing their empirical performance. This is quite common in machine learning and optimization. Right ...
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Can we use quantum phase estimation to learn anything about the dynamics of puzzles like the Rubik's cube?
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Consider a state $\vert\psi\rangle$ such as below, which is in a superposition of a difference between a Rubik's cube in a solved state and a Rubik's cube in the "superflip" ...
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Entanglement-assisted hashing bound for asymmetric depolarizing channels
I reading the paper EXIT-Chart Aided Quantum Code Design
Improves the Normalised Throughput
of Realistic Quantum Devices, which proposes the use of QTCs in order to do quantum error correction for ...
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Strong vs weak simulations and the polynomial hierarchy collapse
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An argument for quantum computational "supremacy" (specifically in Bremner et al. and the Google paper) assumes that there exists a ...
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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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Can you programatically check whether a given set of gates is universal?
I am wondering if there is an automated way to determine whether a given set of quantum operations is universal.
More precisely, given a set of 1 and 2 qubit gates, can we write a program to determine ...
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Is there a BQP algorithm for each level of the polynomial hierarchy PH?
This question is inspired by thinking about quantum computing power with respect to games, such as chess/checkers/other toy games. Games fit naturally into the polynomial hierarchy $\mathrm{PH}$; I'm ...
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