Recent comments from SciRate

Craig Gidney Jul 16 2025 16:05 UTC

Yeah, I agree that with this setup the efficiency is likely too low.

That said... if you somehow have reliable storage, then efficiency stops being an issue for violating the inequality. The entanglement generation doesn't need to be spacelike separated, only the entanglement consumption. So you

...(continued)
Jacques Pienaar Jul 16 2025 15:48 UTC

Sure, I'm no stranger to the usefulness of post-selection. As you point out, SPDC plus heralding is still the best way to get hold of single photons in quantum optics!

However, if you are going to use post-selection, you have to take into account the reduced efficiency. Otherwise, one would not

...(continued)
Craig Gidney Jul 16 2025 05:50 UTC

I wouldn't be so hard on post-selection. It's very possible to analyze it in confusing ways, but I think it will ultimately be extremely useful for building larger systems.

For example, quantum networks will need to distribute entanglement across their links. The quality of that entanglement can be

...(continued)
Ryan Tiew Jul 16 2025 05:14 UTC

Just wanted to point out that (up to cyclic shifts) the polynomials for your [[12,2,3]] code are equivalent to (1+y) and (1+xy). These are the same polynomials used to generate the twisted torus in [Breuckmann and Eberhardt, 10.1109/TIT.2021.3097347, Figure 8] with the same code parameters. These 2

...(continued)
Jacques Pienaar Jul 15 2025 14:47 UTC

I'm surprised to see so few comments. It is well-known that separable states cannot demonstrate any kind of non-locality, given the accepted definitions of these terms. See for instance the classic reviews on "Quantum Enganglement" by the Horodeckis (arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702225) and "Bell nonloca

...(continued)
Craig Gidney Jul 14 2025 18:14 UTC

I think a better title for this paper would be "producing entanglement by frustrated interference and mode measurements". The title's current claim that the state isn't entangled seems clearly disproven by equation 15 (the superposition before measurement). The state described in that equation is en

...(continued)
Jahan Claes Jul 14 2025 11:20 UTC

Woke up to an email pointing out that a lot of this work overlaps with Appendix C of https://scirate.com/arxiv/2402.02185.

What is still unique to my paper?

- Showing this circuit increases the timelike distance
- Making the circuit remove leakage

Will update the paper with a note credi

...(continued)
Victory Omole Jul 12 2025 15:25 UTC

This very clear to me now. Thank you!

Daniel Litinski Jul 11 2025 20:51 UTC

Thank you for your question. In fusion-based quantum computation (FBQC), a quantum computation is executed by repeatedly generating copies of entangled few-qubit resource states and performing fusions (entangling two-qubit measurements) between pairs of resource states, as well as single-qubit measu

...(continued)
Victory Omole Jul 10 2025 22:34 UTC

Figure 17 displays a `[[4, 2, 2]]` code where a `T` measurement is performed on the first qubit, a `Z` measurement on the second qubit, and `X` measurements on the third and fourth qubits.

How does the state injection work if all the states are collapsed at the beginning of the protocol?

qodesign Jul 10 2025 15:44 UTC

It's been difficult verifying your results (figure 3). Do you have additional information that you can share on the circuit noise models you used for the two syndrome extraction methods?

Tristan Nemoz Jul 09 2025 17:09 UTC

> No other equations are affected.

Glad to know! Cheers :)

Thomas Schuster Jul 09 2025 15:20 UTC

Ah, you are correct! That equation should be equal to a sum over x and tilde x that are stabilizations, and not just permutations of one another. Many apologies, we expanded this section of the proof at a later stage for readability, and introduced this error.

This does not change any later steps

...(continued)
Tristan Nemoz Jul 09 2025 13:32 UTC

Hi, and thanks for this very nice paper! I'm still reading it, but there's something I'm not sure to understand, and I hoped you could clarify it for me.

On page 22, below Equation (57), you write:

> When averaged, the global random phase $F$ enforces that $\tilde{x}$ and $x$ are related by a perm

...(continued)
Minki Hhan Jul 02 2025 06:05 UTC

I think some important references are missing, e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0401091 which shows a n^1.5 time algorithm for the single source shortest path problem up to polylog factors.

Konstantinos Meichanetzidis Jun 30 2025 17:47 UTC

Yes, the scenario you describe is possible. We cannot exclude it. The safest and most conservative statement is that "our work provides the framework for identifying the minimum instance sizes for quadvantage for this problem, given sota algos and machines".

If we are unlucky, this minimum is ver

...(continued)
Konstantinos Meichanetzidis Jun 30 2025 17:41 UTC

Hi, very nice review.

I particularly support the heuristics-minded approach to quantum advantage, as stated in this work: "Nevertheless, based on the comparative strength of classical optimization methods, we believe that the most promising path forward is to target individual problem classes and

...(continued)
Isaac Kim Jun 27 2025 04:29 UTC

Thanks for the comment. This is a neat observation! I agree with your conclusion.

Tuomas Laakkonen Jun 27 2025 00:57 UTC

Hi, great paper! An optimization can be made to your construction in Section 2.2, which eliminates in Section 2.3 the dependence on the number of non-zero coefficients of $f$ (and consequently lets you take $n > 660$). The idea is as follows: $CX_{(n-1)\to Q_f}$ is originally written as

$$CX_{(n-

...(continued)
Vincent Steffan Jun 26 2025 14:20 UTC

We also struggled with a name and since the connectivity is in a strict sense not planar on a 2D lattice and also they are not really BB codes (the bicyclic referring a torus as the underlying lattice, or to them being two-block group algebra codes for the product of two cyclic groups) . I feel "til

...(continued)
Junseo Lee Jun 26 2025 02:44 UTC

Hi!

I'm one of the authors of the paper.

I’d like to share that we plan to remove the third result regarding consistent-QPH in the next revision and replace it with a new insight.

For now, here are the key points raised by Dorian Rudolph:

$\mathsf{CQPH}$ can simulate $\mathsf{QPH}$ by si

...(continued)
Craig Gidney Jun 25 2025 02:58 UTC

Yes, I agree the paper is clear on the meaning of the term.

yingli yang Jun 25 2025 01:12 UTC

Hi Craig, thank you for the comment.

We understand that in some contexts, particularly in graph theory, "planar" is taken to imply non-crossing edges, i.e., a planar graph. However, this is a specialized technical meaning. More generally, as supported by standard definitions, "planar" simply means

...(continued)
Craig Gidney Jun 24 2025 23:58 UTC

(Not a serious issue, just some terminological confusion.)

I felt a bit tricked when I realized the "planar" in the title meant something different than I expected. I'd describe the property this paper is aiming for as "2d-local genus-0" or "planar boundaries". I think, in typical usage, "planar" m

...(continued)
Ryan O'Donnell Jun 24 2025 16:01 UTC

The proof of Lemma 9 in this paper got messed up in the editing process for the v1 of this paper. A corrected proof is given below; it will appear in the arXiv v2 version. Thanks to Mingyu Sun for pointing out the error!

![Corrected proof][1]

[1]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/proof.png

Daniel Miller Jun 20 2025 09:09 UTC

Great paper! Also, happy birthday to my amazing colleague Lennart — may your day be as insightful as this paper! 🎉

Anthony Polloreno Jun 18 2025 15:55 UTC

Is this related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_precession?

Martin Ekerå Jun 17 2025 13:15 UTC

As I wrote to the authors when they put out the initial version of this pre-print, and as explained in detail in [this repository][1], there is little point in analyzing the success probability of the last step of Shor's original classical post-processing as there are better ways to post-process the

...(continued)
Junichi Haruna Jun 16 2025 15:11 UTC

Thank you very much for your careful reading and constructive feedback.

We agree that the phrase "on planar architectures with only nearest-neighbor interactions" in the abstract may be misleading, as our study does not specify or analyze an explicit implementation using local gates. Our intentio

...(continued)
Blake Stacey Jun 16 2025 05:27 UTC

I believe the result of section 7.1, regarding the maximal-magic qutrit states, is incomplete, and thus Conjecture 2 is false. [Fuchs and Cuffaro (2024)](https://scirate.com/arxiv/2412.21083) proved that maximal magic, as measured by the stabilizer Rényi entropy, obtains if and only if the state is

...(continued)
Craig Gidney Jun 13 2025 21:13 UTC

It was pointed out to me that there are similarities to https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9604028 which also works by trying to stay in the symmetric subspace, and was found to be flawed.

Craig Gidney Jun 13 2025 18:34 UTC

This obviously doesn't work.

Essentially the proposed scheme is to run the noisy process N times, and recover results by averaging measurements. As the paper notes, this suppresses errors for a single qubit state undergoing a single round of noise. The problem is that this test completely misses th

...(continued)
Aram Harrow Jun 13 2025 11:38 UTC

It's not clear (to me) how you encode part of an entangled state with this code.

Cédric Guindé Jun 13 2025 05:58 UTC

Do you expect anything qualitatively new emerges if one generalizes such a construction to 2D?

Gerardo Adesso Jun 09 2025 12:26 UTC

One of the very first papers to explore this question, produced when ChatGPT (v3.5) had just made its public debut, is this one: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aaai.12113

Matthew Leifer Jun 05 2025 18:14 UTC

Thanks for your comments Jacques. We are discussing how to update the article in light of them.

I would prefer not to formulate Completeness in terms of "hidden variables". There were good reasons to rebrand hidden variable theories as "ontological models", and there are a lot of misconceptions

...(continued)
Jacques Pienaar Jun 05 2025 13:52 UTC

Some of us QBists are discussing this article over email. We think that the way "Completeness" is elaborated in the article sits uncomfortably with QBism, possibly also with RQM.

The article frames the issue like this: either QM furnishes us with a "description" of the properties of physical syst

...(continued)
Chris Corlett Jun 05 2025 12:32 UTC

Great paper! I've not had a chance to read it over in detail yet so forgive me if I've missed this but apart from a brief mention in the conclusion, you don't seem to have a discussion on the effects of resonator leakage on your gate fidelity. You state an advantage of your gate is that you can driv

...(continued)
Stergios Koutsioumpas Jun 05 2025 08:16 UTC

Congratulations for this nice work!

We wanted to let you know of our earlier work in : https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01738 where we consider an ensemble BP decoding method for the Bivariate Bicycle code family under circuit level noise, as well.

Blake Stacey Jun 05 2025 05:22 UTC

Thanks!

Yìlè Jun 05 2025 03:54 UTC

We are very sorry for this mistake (and we are confused how that happened). It has been corrected, and the proper reference to your paper will appear in our next arXiv update.

Blake Stacey Jun 04 2025 20:25 UTC

Hi. You left my name off the authors of Ref. 12, [arXiv:1612.07308](https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07308).

Joe Fitzsimons Jun 04 2025 06:59 UTC

This is an interesting paper, and worth reading, but I view the conclusion that there is no exponential speedup for existing quantum algorithms deeply misleading.

Here's the issue: The runtime of the algorithm in ref ZFF19 (of which I am an author) scales polynomially in the condition number (kap

...(continued)
Craig Gidney May 31 2025 21:01 UTC

If you are only investigating the error suppression capabilities of the code, then why does your abstract specify "on planar architectures with only nearest-neighbor interactions"?

The code you describe is manifestly *not* planar. It doesn't have stabilizers spanning only nearest neighbors. So the

...(continued)
Alexander Hahn May 30 2025 07:48 UTC

Dear Changhao,
thanks for pointing out this relevant reference. I think your iterative integration-by-part method is related to the one we developed in the context of Trotter error bounds (https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08044), which might be of interest to you. We also use the first-order variant of o

...(continued)
Junichi Haruna May 30 2025 07:48 UTC

Thank you very much for your valuable comment.

We fully agree that the code capacity noise model is not sufficient for a complete assessment of fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC), particularly when considering the impact of non-local stabilizer measurements and realistic circuit-level nois

...(continued)
Craig Gidney May 28 2025 15:26 UTC

What? You can't use a code capacity model to analyze a concatenated structure involving a non-local code while claiming it runs under planar connectivity! Code capacity models don't understand how operations are performed, but because you're embedding a non-planar code into a planar system those ope

...(continued)
Shoham Jacoby May 28 2025 08:28 UTC

Thank you for the answer!

Junichi Haruna May 28 2025 06:26 UTC

Thank you very much for your interest in our work and for the insightful question.

In this study, we restrict our analysis to the code capacity noise model and do not explicitly implement or simulate lattice surgery operations. The reference to lattice surgery is made to emphasize the compatibili

...(continued)
Kenneth Goodenough May 27 2025 23:34 UTC

Congratulations on the nice work, good to see more work focusing on stationary distributions in quantum networking. I wanted to point out a typo in Eq. 7, the top-left entry of the matrix should be (1-p)^2+p^2, instead of (1-p)^2+p.