Circuit complexity in quantum field theory

RA Jefferson, RC Myers - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Motivated by recent studies of holographic complexity, we examine the question of
circuit complexity in quantum field theory. We provide a quantum circuit model for the …

Circuit complexity for free fermions

L Hackl, RC Myers - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We study circuit complexity for free fermionic field theories and Gaussian states.
Our definition of circuit complexity is based on the notion of geodesic distance on the Lie …

A perspective on protein structure prediction using quantum computers

H Doga, B Raubenolt, F Cumbo, J Joshi… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Despite the recent advancements by deep learning methods such as AlphaFold2, in silico
protein structure prediction remains a challenging problem in biomedical research. With the …

Connecting Fisher information to bulk entanglement in holography

S Banerjee, J Erdmenger, D Sarkar - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract In the context of relating AdS/CFT to quantum information theory, we propose a
holographic dual of Fisher information metric for mixed states in the boundary field theory …

Geometric algebra and information geometry for quantum computational software

C Cafaro - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
The art of quantum algorithm design is highly nontrivial. Grover's search algorithm
constitutes a masterpiece of quantum computational software. In this article, we use methods …

Geometric aspects of analog quantum search evolutions

C Cafaro, S Ray, PM Alsing - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We use geometric concepts originally proposed by Anandan and Aharonov [Phys. Rev. Lett.
65, 1697 (1990) PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 65.1697] to show that the Farhi …

Complexity and time

C Gómez - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
For any quantum algorithm given by a path in the space of unitary operators we define the
computational complexity as the typical computational time associated with the path. This …

On Grover's search algorithm from a quantum information geometry viewpoint

C Cafaro, S Mancini - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2012 - Elsevier
We present an information geometric characterization of Grover's quantum search algorithm.
First, we quantify the notion of quantum distinguishability between parametric density …

Decrease of Fisher information and the information geometry of evolution equations for quantum mechanical probability amplitudes

C Cafaro, PM Alsing - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
The relevance of the concept of Fisher information is increasing in both statistical physics
and quantum computing. From a statistical mechanical standpoint, the application of Fisher …

Quantum Groverian geodesic paths with gravitational and thermal analogies

C Cafaro, D Felice, PM Alsing - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2020 - Springer
We present a unifying variational calculus derivation of Groverian geodesics for both
quantum state vectors and quantum probability amplitudes. In the first case, we show that …