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Tight bounds on depth-2 QAC-circuits computing parity

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arxiv 2504.06433 v1 pith:MSEXKPFY submitted 2025-04-08 quant-ph cs.CCmath-phmath.MP

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We show that the parity of more than three non-target input bits cannot be computed by QAC-circuits of depth-2, not even uncleanly, regardless of the number of ancilla qubits. This result is incomparable with other recent lower bounds on constant-depth QAC-circuits by Rosenthal [ICTS~2021,arXiv:2008.07470] and uses different techniques which may be of independent interest: 1. We show that all members of a certain class of multivariate polynomials are irreducible. The proof applies a technique of Shpilka & Volkovich [STOC 2008]. 2. We give a tight-in-some-sense characterization of when a multiqubit CZ gate creates or removes entanglement from the state it is applied to. The current paper strengthens an earlier version of the paper [arXiv:2005.12169].

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