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The Complexity of Quantum States and Transformations: From Quantum Money to Black Holes

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These are lecture notes from a weeklong course in quantum complexity theory taught at the Bellairs Research Institute in Barbados, February 21-25, 2016. The focus is quantum circuit complexity---i.e., the minimum number of gates needed to prepare a given quantum state or apply a given unitary transformation---as a unifying theme tying together several topics of recent interest in the field. Those topics include the power of quantum proofs and advice states; how to construct quantum money schemes secure against counterfeiting; and the role of complexity in the black-hole information paradox and the AdS/CFT correspondence (through connections made by Harlow-Hayden, Susskind, and others). The course was taught to a mixed audience of theoretical computer scientists and quantum gravity / string theorists, and starts out with a crash course on quantum information and computation in general.

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A Relativizing MIP for BQP

quant-ph · 2026-04-13 · unverdicted · novelty 8.0

BQP is contained in MIP relative to every classical oracle via a new PCP construction for BQP^O inspired by Grover-Rudolph state synthesis.

Quantum Finite Temperature Lanczos Method

quant-ph · 2026-03-26 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

QFTLM computes thermal expectation values on quantum computers by merging quantum Krylov methods with efficient typical-state preparation for trace estimation.

Quantum Circuit Overhead

quant-ph · 2025-05-01 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Introduces QCO and T-QCO measures and numerically shows that the T gate is non-optimal for completing the Clifford set among order-8 gates.

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  • Query and Depth Upper Bounds for Quantum Unitaries via Grover Search quant-ph · 2021-11-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 2 · internal anchor

    Any n-qubit unitary can be implemented approximately with Õ(2^{n/2}) oracle queries or exactly with Õ(2^{n/2}) circuit depth via Grover search reductions, with matching lower bounds for certain implementations.