,
Chinmay Nirkhe
,
Bryan O'Gorman
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
We initiate the study of parameterized complexity of QMA problems in terms of the number of non-Clifford gates in the problem description. We show that for the problem of parameterized quantum circuit satisfiability, there exists a classical algorithm solving the problem with a runtime scaling exponentially in the number of non-Clifford gates but only polynomially with the system size. This result follows from our main result, that for any Clifford + t T-gate quantum circuit satisfiability problem, the search space of optimal witnesses can be reduced to a stabilizer subspace isomorphic to at most t qubits (independent of the system size). Furthermore, we derive new lower bounds on the T-count of circuit satisfiability instances and the T-count of the W-state assuming the classical exponential time hypothesis (ETH). Lastly, we explore the parameterized complexity of the quantum non-identity check problem.
@InProceedings{arunachalam_et_al:LIPIcs.TQC.2022.3,
author = {Arunachalam, Srinivasan and Bravyi, Sergey and Nirkhe, Chinmay and O'Gorman, Bryan},
title = {{The Parametrized Complexity of Quantum Verification}},
booktitle = {17th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2022)},
pages = {3:1--3:18},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-237-2},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2022},
volume = {232},
editor = {Le Gall, Fran\c{c}ois and Morimae, Tomoyuki},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2022.3},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-165104},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.TQC.2022.3},
annote = {Keywords: parametrized complexity, quantum verification, QMA}
}