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Publications

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11/2025

The Born Ultimatum: Conditions for Classical Surrogation of Quantum Generative Models with Correlators

Mario Herrero-Gonzalez, Brian Coyle, Kieran McDowall, Ross Grassie, Sjoerd Beentjes, Ava Khamseh, Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

10/2025

Verifiable blind observable estimation: A composably secure protocol for near-term quantum advantage tasks

Bo Yang, Elham Kashefi, Harold Ollivier

arXiv preprint

10/2025

Role of Coherence for Quantum Computational Advantage

Hugo Thomas, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Rawad Mezher, Elham Kashefi, Harold Ollivier, Ulysse Chabaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 150602

10/2025

On estimating the quantum distance

Yupan Liu, Qisheng Wang

33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)

09/2025

Localized statistics decoding for quantum low-density parity-check codes

Timo Hillmann, Lucas Berent, Armanda O. Quintavalle, Jens Eisert, Robert Wille, Joschka Roffe

Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 8214 (2025)

08/2025

Logical accreditation: a framework for efficient certification of fault-tolerant computations

James Mills, Adithya Sireesh, Dominik Leichtle, Joschka Roffe, Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

10/2025

String diagrams for defect-based surface code computing

M. Kupper, C. Heunen, N. de Beaudrap, D. Horsman

QPL 2025, arxiv preprint

08/2025

Colour Codes Reach Surface Code Performance using Vibe Decoding

Stergios Koutsioumpas, Tamas Noszko, Hasan Sayginel, Mark Webster, Joschka Roffe

arXiv preprint

07/2025

Variational quantum cloning machine on an integrated photonic interferometer

Francesco Hoch, Giovanni Rodari, Eugenio Caruccio, Beatrice Polacchi, Gonzalo Carvacho, Taira Giordani, Mina Doosti, Sebastià Nicolau, Ciro Pentangelo, Simone Piacentini, Andrea Crespi, Francesco Ceccarelli, Roberto Osellame, Ernesto F. Galvão, Nicolò Spagnolo, and Fabio Sciarrino

Optica Quantum Vol. 3, Issue 4, pp. 351-359 (2025)

07/2025

Toward quantum advantage with photonic state injection

Léo Monbroussou, Eliott Z. Mamon, Hugo Thomas, Verena Yacoub, Ulysse Chabaud, Elham Kashefi

Phys. Rev. Research 7, 033051

05/2025

Benincasa-Dowker causal set actions by quantum counting

Sean A. Adamson, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Experimental Verifiable Multiclient Blind Quantum Computing on a Qline Architecture

B Polacchi, D Leichtle, G Carvacho, G Milani, N Spagnolo, M Kaplan

Physical Review Letters 134 (20), 200603, 2025

05/2025

Hadamard-Π: Equational Quantum Programming

W. Fang, C. Heunen, R. Kaarsgaard

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Engineering CSS surgery: compiling any CNOT in any code

Clément Poirson, Joschka Roffe, Robert I. Booth

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Simultaneous Estimation of Nonlinear Functionals of a Quantum State

K Chen, Q Wang, Z Yu, Z Zhang

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Learning Quantum Processes with Quantum Statistical Queries

Wadhwa, Chirag, and Mina Doosti

Quantum 9, 1739 (2025)

05/2025

Hardware-tailored logical Clifford circuits for stabilizer codes

Eric J. Kuehnke, Kyano Levi, Joschka Roffe, Jens Eisert, Daniel Miller

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Quantum Hamiltonian Certification

M Gao, Z Ji, Q Wang, W Yu, Q Zhao

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Quantum differential privacy in the local model

A Angrisani, E Kashefi

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2025

05/2025

Introducing Quantum Computing to High-School Curricula: A Global Perspective

María Gragera Garcés, Luis Gómez Orzechowski, Juan Francisco Rodríguez Hernández

arXiv preprint

04/2025

Hybrid Authentication Protocols for Advanced Quantum Networks

S Goswami, M Doosti, E Kashefi

arXiv preprint

04/2025

A note on quantum divide and conquer for minimal string rotation

Q Wang

Theoretical Computer Science,Volume 1034, 22 April 2025, 115120

04/2025

Quantum Lifting for Invertible Permutations and Ideal Cipher

Alexandru Cojocaru, Juan Garay, Qipeng Liu, Fang Song

CRYPTO 2025

04/2025

Language Model for Large-Text Transmission in Noisy Quantum Communications

Yuqi Li, Zhouhang Shi, Haitao Ma, Li Shen, Jinge Bao, Yunlong Xiao

arXiv preprint

04/2025

Non-Interactive and Non-Destructive Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Quantum States and Multi-Party Generation of Authorized Hidden GHZ States

L Colisson, F Grosshans, E Kashefi

ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing 6 (2), 1-56, 2025

04/2025

Verifiable End-to-End Delegated Variational Quantum Algorithms

Matteo Inajetovic, Petros Wallden, Anna Pappa

arXiv preprint

04/2025

Quantum Lifting for Invertible Permutations and Ideal Ciphers

Alexandru Cojocaru, Minki Hhan, Qipeng Liu, Takashi Yamakawa, Aaram Yun

CRYPTO 2025

04/2025

Photonic Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks with Adaptive State Injection

Léo Monbroussou, Beatrice Polacchi, Verena Yacoub, Eugenio Caruccio, Giovanni Rodari, Francesco Hoch, Gonzalo Carvacho, Nicolò Spagnolo, Taira Giordani, Mattia Bossi, Abhiram Rajan, Niki Di Giano, Riccardo Albiero, Francesco Ceccarelli, Roberto Osellame, Elham Kashefi, Fabio Sciarrino

03/2025

qiskit-community: mps-to-circuit

DA Millar, GW Pennington, NTM Siow, SJ Thomson

Github

03/2025

Subspace preserving quantum convolutional neural network architectures

L Monbroussou, J Landman, L Wang, AB Grilo, E Kashefi

Quantum Science and Technology 10 (2), 025050, 2025

03/2025

Approximation Methods for Simulation and Equivalence Checking of Noisy Quantum Circuits

Mingyu Huang, Ji Guan, Wang Fang, Mingsheng Ying

arXiv preprint

03/2025

Breaking absolute separability with quantum switch

Sravani Yanamandra, P. V. Srinidhi, Samyadeb Bhattacharya, Indranil Chakrabarty & Suchetana Goswami

Quantum Inf Process 24, 81 (2025)

03/2025

Local quench spectroscopy on a digital quantum computer

D Millar, N Siow, G Pennington, D Galvin, A Green, S Thomson

APS Joint March Meeting and April Meeting: Global Physics Summit, 2025

03/2025

A Practically Scalable Approach to the Closest Vector Problem for Sieving via QAOA with Fixed Angles

Ben Priestley, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

03/2025

Efficient Formal Verification of Quantum Error Correcting Programs

Qifan Huang, Li Zhou, Wang Fang, Mengyu Zhao, Mingsheng Ying

arXiv preprint

03/2025

Synthesis of quantum simulators by compilation

M Tarabkhah, M Delavar, M Doosti, A Shaikhha

M Tarabkhah, M Delavar, M Doosti, A Shaikhha

02/2025

Adiabatic quantum unstructured search in parallel

Sean A. Adamson, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Improved Accreditation of Analogue Quantum Simulation and Establishing Quantum Advantage

Andrew Jackson, Animesh Datta

arXiv preprint

02/2025

A Review and Collection of Metrics and Benchmarks for Quantum Computers: definitions, methodologies and software

Deep Lall, Abhishek Agarwal, Weixi Zhang, Lachlan Lindoy, Tobias Lindström, Stephanie Webster, Simon Hall, Nicholas Chancellor, Petros Wallden, Raul Garcia-Patron, Elham Kashefi, Viv Kendon, Jonathan Pritchard, Alessandro Rossi, Animesh Datta, Theodoros Kapourniotis, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Ivan Rungger

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Error mitigation of BQP computations using measurement-based verification

J Harris, E Kashefi

Physical Review A 111 (2), 022602, 2025

02/2025

Quantum algorithms and lower bounds for eccentricity, radius, and diameter in undirected graphs

Adam Wesołowski, Jinge Bao

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Heuristic Time Complexity of NISQ Shortest-Vector-Problem Solvers

Milos Prokop, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Asymmetric secure multi-party quantum computation with weak clients against dishonest majority

T Kapourniotis, E Kashefi, D Leichtle, L Music, H Ollivier

Quantum Science and Technology, 2025

02/2025

Computing Efficiently in QLDPC Codes

Alexander J. Malcolm, Andrew N. Glaudell, Patricio Fuentes, Daryus Chandra, Alexis Schotte, Colby DeLisle, Rafael Haenel, Amir Ebrahimi, Joschka Roffe, Armanda O. Quintavalle, Stefanie J. Beale, Nicholas R. Lee-Hone, Stephanie Simmons

arXiv preprint

01/2025

Qurts: Automatic quantum uncomputation by affine types with lifetime

Kengo Hirata, Chris Heunen

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages POPL 9:155-182, 2025

01/2025

Accelerating quantum imaginary-time evolution with random measurements

Kolotouros I, Joseph D, Narayanan AK

Physical Review A 111 (1), 012424, 2025

01/2025

Programming tools for Analogue Quantum Computing in the High-Performance Computing Context - A Review

M Meller, V Szeremi, O T Brown

arXiv preprint

01/2025

Parallel remote state preparation for fully device-independent verifiable blind quantum computation

Sean A. Adamson

Phys. Rev. Research 7, 013069

01/2025

Non-Markovian noise limits for sustaining entanglement in multiparty quantum states

Suchetana Goswami, Ujjwal Sen

arXiv preprint

01/2025

Verifying Fault-Tolerance of Quantum Error Correction Codes

Kean Chen, Yuhao Liu, Wang Fang, Jennifer Paykin, Xin-Chuan Wu, Albert Schmitz, Steve Zdancewic, Gushu Li

arXiv preprint

12/2024

Entropy Benchmarking of Near-Term Quantum Devices

Marine Demarty, James Mills and Raul Garcia-Patron Sanchez

arXiv preprint

11/2024

Quantum cryptography beyond key distribution: theory and experiment

Mathieu Bozzio, Claude Crépeau, Petros Wallden, Philip Walther

Mathieu Bozzio, Claude Crépeau, Petros Wallden, Philip Walther

10/2024

Random natural gradient

Ioannis Kolotouros, Petros Wallden

Quantum 8, 1503 (2024)

09/2024

An almost-linear time decoding algorithm for quantum LDPC codes under circuit-level noise

Antonio deMarti iOlius, Imanol Etxezarreta Martinez, Joschka Roffe, Josu Etxezarreta Martinez

arXiv preprint

09/2024

The domain wall color code

Konstantin Tiurev, Arthur Pesah, Peter-Jan H. S. Derks, Joschka Roffe, Jens Eisert, Markus S. Kesselring, Jan-Michael Reiner

Physical Review Letters 133 (2024)

09/2024

Incomplete quantum oblivious transfer with perfect one-sided security

David Reichmuth, Ittoop Vergheese Puthoor, Petros Wallden, Erika Andersson

arXiv preprint

07/2024

A brief review of quantum machine learning for financial services

M. Doosti, P. Wallden, C. B. Hamill, R. Hankache, O. T. Brown, C. Heunen

arXiv preprint

06/2024

High-threshold, low-overhead and single-shot decodable fault-tolerant quantum memory

Thomas R. Scruby, Timo Hillmann, Joschka Roffe

arXiv preprint

06/2024

Localized statistics decoding: A parallel decoding algorithm for quantum low-density parity-check codes

Timo Hillmann, Lucas Berent, Armanda O. Quintavalle, Jens Eisert, Robert Wille, Joschka Roffe

arXiv preprint

05/2024

Compositional reversible computation

J. Carette, C. Heunen, R. Kaarsgaard, and A. Sabry

Reversible Computation, LNCS 14680:10-27, 2024.

05/2024

A computational test of quantum contextuality, and even simpler proofs of quantumness

A Singh Arora, K Bharti, A Cojocaru, A Coladang

arXiv preprint

05/2024

Quantum-enhanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo for systems larger than your Quantum Computer

S Ferguson, P Wallden

Phys. Rev. Research 7, 013231 (2025)

05/2024

Analog Information Decoding of Bosonic Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check Codes

Lucas Berent, Timo Hillmann, Jens Eisert, Robert Wille, Joschka Roffe

PRX Quantum 5 (2024)

05/2024

Unifying Quantum Verification and Error-Detection: Theory and Tools for Optimisations

Kapourniotis, Theodoros, Elham Kashefi, Dominik Leichtle, Luka Music, and Harold Ollivier

Quantum Science and Technology, 2024

05/2024

An error-mitigated photonic quantum circuit Born machine

Alexia Salavrakos, Tigran Sedrakyan, James Mills, Rawad Mezher

arXiv preprint

05/2024

Analog information decoding of bosonic quantum LDPC codes

L Berent. T Hillmann. J Eisert. R Wille. J Roffe

PRX Quantum 5

05/2024

Restricted Randomized Benchmarking with Universal Gates of Fixed Sequence Length

M Mehrani, K Masoudi, R Mezher, E Kashefi, D Sadhukhan

arXiv preprint

05/2024

Mitigating photon loss in linear optical quantum circuits: classical post-processing methods outperforming postselection

James Mills, Rawad Mezher

arXiv preprint

04/2024

Verifiable blind quantum computing with trapped ions and single photons

P Drmota, DP Nadlinger, D Main, BC Nichol, EM Ainley, Dominik Leichtle, A Mantri, Elham Kashefi, R Srinivas, G Araneda, CJ Ballance, DM Lucas

Physical Review Letters, 2024

04/2024

Heuristic-free Verification-inspired Quantum Benchmarking

J Frank, E Kashefi, D Leichtle, M de Oliveira

arXiv preprint

04/2024

The power of shallow-depth Toffoli and qudit quantum circuits

AB Grilo, E Kashefi, D Markham, M de Oliveira

arXiv preprint

04/2024

Quantum error suppression with subgroup stabilisation projectors, Theory of Quantum Computation

B Yang, E Kashefi, D Leichtle, H Ollivier

arXiv preprint

03/2024

Verification of quantum computations without trusted preparations or measurements

E Kashefi, D Leichtle, L Music, H Ollivier

arXiv preprint

03/2024

Asymmetric Quantum Secure Multi-Party Computation With Weak Clients Against Dishonest Majority

Kapourniotis, Theodoros, Elham Kashefi, Dominik Leichtle, Luka Music, and Harold Ollivier. Quantum Science and Technology,

Quantum Science and Technology, Volume 10, Number 2

03/2024

Ordered locales

C Heunen, N van der Schaaf

Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 2024

03/2024

Constrained and Vanishing Expressivity of Quantum Fourier Models

Hela Mhiri, Leo Monbroussou, Mario Herrero-Gonzalez, Slimane Thabet, Elham Kashefi, Jonas Landman

arXiv preprint

02/2024

Grover's oracle for the Shortest Vector Problem and its application in hybrid classical-quantum solvers

M Prokop, P Wallden, D Joseph

IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, vol. 6, pp. 1-15, 2025

02/2024

Big data applications on small quantum computers

Boniface Yogendran, Daniel Charlton, Miriam Beddig, Ioannis Kolotouros, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

01/2024

Dagger categories and the complex numbers: Axioms for the category of finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces and linear contractions

M Di Meglio, C Heunen

arXiv preprint

01/2024

With a Few Square Roots, Quantum Computing Is as Easy as Pi

J Carette, C Heunen, R Kaarsgaard, A Sabry

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Volume 8, Issue POPL

2023

Advances in Algebra and Logic

van Benthem, Johan, Chris Heunen, Helmut Länger, and Davide Emilio Quadrellaro

Advances in Algebra and Logic (2023): 330

2023

Simplifying errors by symmetry and randomisation

Mills, James, Debasis Sadhukhan, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2023

Ordered Locales

Heunen, Chris, and Nesta van der Schaaf

arXiv preprint

2023

With a Few Square Roots, Quantum Computing is as Easy as _

Carette, Jacques, Chris Heunen, Robin Kaarsgaard, and Amr Sabry.

arXiv preprint

2023

Quantum Multi-Solution Bernoulli Search with Applications to Bitcoin's Post-Quantum Security

Cojocaru, Alexandru, Juan Garay, Aggelos Kiayias, Fang Song, and Petros Wallden

Quantum 7 (2023): 944

2023

Duoidally enriched Freyd categories

Heunen, Chris, and Jesse Sigal

In International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Computer Science, pp. 241-257. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023

2023

Compact inverse categories

Cockett, Robin, and Chris Heunen

In Samson Abramsky on Logic and Structure in Computer Science and Beyond, pp. 813-832. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023.

2023

Establishing shared secret keys on quantum line networks: protocol and security

Doosti, Mina, Lucas Hanouz, Anne Marin, Elham Kashefi, and Marc Kaplan

arXiv preprint

2023

Quantum cryptography beyond quantum key distribution: variants of quantum oblivious transfer

Andersson, Erika, Lara Stroh, Ittoop V. Puthoor, David Reichmuth, Nikolá Horova, Robert Stárek, Michal Miuda, Miloslav Duek, and Petros Wallden

In Quantum Computing, Communication, and Simulation III, vol. 12446, pp. 66-71. SPIE, 2023

2023

Trainability and Expressivity of Hamming-Weight Preserving Quantum Circuits for Machine Learning

Monbroussou, Léo, Jonas Landman, Alex B. Grilo, Romain Kukla, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2023

Multi-client distributed blind quantum computation with the Qline architecture

Polacchi, Beatrice, Dominik Leichtle, Leonardo Limongi, Gonzalo Carvacho, Giorgio Milani, Nicolò Spagnolo, Marc Kaplan, Fabio Sciarrino, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2023

A unifying framework for differentially private quantum algorithms

Angrisani, Armando, Mina Doosti, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2023

The Quantum Effect: A Recipe for QuantumPi

Carette, Jacques, Chris Heunen, Robin Kaarsgaard, and Amr Sabry

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 8(236):1--29, 2024

2023

Categories of sets with infinite addition

Andrés-Martínez, Pablo, and Chris Heunen

Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 229(2):107872, 2025.

2023

Scalable and Exponential Quantum Error Mitigation of BQP Computations using Verification

Harris, Joseph, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2023

Correcting non-independent and non-identically distributed errors with surface codes

K Tiurev. PJHS Derks. J Roffe. J Eisert. JM Reiner

Quantum 7, 11/2023

2023


Verifiable blind quantum computing with trapped ions and single photons

Drmota, P., D. P. Nadlinger, D. Main, B. C. Nichol, E. M. Ainley, Dominik Leichtle, A. Mantri et al.

arXiv preprint

2023

Quantum Lock: A Provable Quantum Communication Advantage

Chakraborty, Kaushik, Mina Doosti, Yao Ma, Chirag Wadhwa, Myrto Arapinis, and Elham Kashefi

Quantum 7 (2023): 1014

2023

Sheaf representation of monoidal categories

Barbosa, Rui Soares, and Chris Heunen

Advances in Mathematics 416 (2023): 108900

2023

Variational quantum solutions to the Shortest Vector Problem

Albrecht, Martin R., Milo Prokop, Yixin Shen, and Petros Wallden

Quantum 7 (2023): 933

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