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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.112
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-157086
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/15708/
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Rosenthal, Gregory ; Yuen, Henry

Interactive Proofs for Synthesizing Quantum States and Unitaries

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Abstract

Whereas quantum complexity theory has traditionally been concerned with problems arising from classical complexity theory (such as computing boolean functions), it also makes sense to study the complexity of inherently quantum operations such as constructing quantum states or performing unitary transformations. With this motivation, we define models of interactive proofs for synthesizing quantum states and unitaries, where a polynomial-time quantum verifier interacts with an untrusted quantum prover, and a verifier who accepts also outputs an approximation of the target state (for the state synthesis problem) or the result of the target unitary applied to the input state (for the unitary synthesis problem); furthermore there should exist an "honest" prover which the verifier accepts with probability 1.
Our main result is a "state synthesis" analogue of the inclusion PSPACE ⊆ IP: any sequence of states computable by a polynomial-space quantum algorithm (which may run for exponential time) admits an interactive protocol of the form described above. Leveraging this state synthesis protocol, we also give a unitary synthesis protocol for polynomial space-computable unitaries that act nontrivially on only a polynomial-dimensional subspace. We obtain analogous results in the setting with multiple entangled provers as well.

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@InProceedings{rosenthal_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.112,
  author =	{Rosenthal, Gregory and Yuen, Henry},
  title =	{{Interactive Proofs for Synthesizing Quantum States and Unitaries}},
  booktitle =	{13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)},
  pages =	{112:1--112:4},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-217-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{215},
  editor =	{Braverman, Mark},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/15708},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-157086},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.112},
  annote =	{Keywords: interactive proofs, quantum state complexity, quantum unitary complexity}
}

Keywords: interactive proofs, quantum state complexity, quantum unitary complexity
Collection: 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 25.01.2022

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