Hi all,

Tomorrow Johannes Weidenfeller will tell us about his thesis project with Elisa on shallow quantum circuits: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/362994444. Here is the abstract:

In a recent breakthrough, Bravyi, Gosset and König (Science, 2018) proved an unconditional separation between the complexity classes of constant-depth quantum circuits QNC0, also called shallow quantum circuits, and their classical counterparts NC0. This result has since then been extended to a number of different computational problems. In this talk, we introduce so-called higher-dimensional generalised GHZ states, which are multipartite entangled states in a superposition of pure GHZ-like states, and explore their non-local properties. We further discuss the main ideas behind proving a separation in the setting of arithmetic problems, which generalise the Parity Halving problem, previously introduced by Watts, Kothari, Schaeffer and Tal (STOC 2019).

“Quantum advantage with shallow circuits” (Sergey Bravyi, David Gosset, and Robert König)https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00690 
"Exponential separation between shallow quantum circuits and unbounded fan-in shallow classical  circuits” (Adam Bene Watts, Robin Kothari, Luke Schaeffer, and Avishay Tal)https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08890

Best,

-joe