359 research outputs found
Merlin-Arthur with efficient quantum Merlin and quantum supremacy for the second level of the Fourier hierarchy
We introduce a simple sub-universal quantum computing model, which we call
the Hadamard-classical circuit with one-qubit (HC1Q) model. It consists of a
classical reversible circuit sandwiched by two layers of Hadamard gates, and
therefore it is in the second level of the Fourier hierarchy. We show that
output probability distributions of the HC1Q model cannot be classically
efficiently sampled within a multiplicative error unless the polynomial-time
hierarchy collapses to the second level. The proof technique is different from
those used for previous sub-universal models, such as IQP, Boson Sampling, and
DQC1, and therefore the technique itself might be useful for finding other
sub-universal models that are hard to classically simulate. We also study the
classical verification of quantum computing in the second level of the Fourier
hierarchy. To this end, we define a promise problem, which we call the
probability distribution distinguishability with maximum norm (PDD-Max). It is
a promise problem to decide whether output probability distributions of two
quantum circuits are far apart or close. We show that PDD-Max is BQP-complete,
but if the two circuits are restricted to some types in the second level of the
Fourier hierarchy, such as the HC1Q model or the IQP model, PDD-Max has a
Merlin-Arthur system with quantum polynomial-time Merlin and classical
probabilistic polynomial-time Arthur.Comment: 30 pages, 4 figure
Verification of Many-Qubit States
Verification is a task to check whether a given quantum state is close to an
ideal state or not. In this paper, we show that a variety of many-qubit quantum
states can be verified with only sequential single-qubit measurements of Pauli
operators. First, we introduce a protocol for verifying ground states of
Hamiltonians. We next explain how to verify quantum states generated by a
certain class of quantum circuits. We finally propose an adaptive test of
stabilizers that enables the verification of all polynomial-time-generated
hypergraph states, which include output states of the
Bremner-Montanaro-Shepherd-type instantaneous quantum polynomial time (IQP)
circuits. Importantly, we do not make any assumption that the identically and
independently distributed copies of the same states are given: Our protocols
work even if some highly complicated entanglement is created among copies in
any artificial way. As applications, we consider the verification of the
quantum computational supremacy demonstration with IQP models, and verifiable
blind quantum computing.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, published versio
Bounds on the Power of Constant-Depth Quantum Circuits
We show that if a language is recognized within certain error bounds by
constant-depth quantum circuits over a finite family of gates, then it is
computable in (classical) polynomial time. In particular, our results imply
EQNC^0 is contained in P, where EQNC^0 is the constant-depth analog of the
class EQP. On the other hand, we adapt and extend ideas of Terhal and
DiVincenzo (quant-ph/0205133) to show that, for any family F of quantum gates
including Hadamard and CNOT gates, computing the acceptance probabilities of
depth-five circuits over F is just as hard as computing these probabilities for
circuits over F. In particular, this implies that NQNC^0 = NQACC = NQP = coC=P
where NQNC^0 is the constant-depth analog of the class NQP. This essentially
refutes a conjecture of Green et al. that NQACC is contained in TC^0
(quant-ph/0106017)
Classical simulation of commuting quantum computations implies collapse of the polynomial hierarchy
We consider quantum computations comprising only commuting gates, known as
IQP computations, and provide compelling evidence that the task of sampling
their output probability distributions is unlikely to be achievable by any
efficient classical means. More specifically we introduce the class post-IQP of
languages decided with bounded error by uniform families of IQP circuits with
post-selection, and prove first that post-IQP equals the classical class PP.
Using this result we show that if the output distributions of uniform IQP
circuit families could be classically efficiently sampled, even up to 41%
multiplicative error in the probabilities, then the infinite tower of classical
complexity classes known as the polynomial hierarchy, would collapse to its
third level. We mention some further results on the classical simulation
properties of IQP circuit families, in particular showing that if the output
distribution results from measurements on only O(log n) lines then it may in
fact be classically efficiently sampled.Comment: 13 page
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