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Publications

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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

12/2024

Entropy Benchmarking of Near-Term Quantum Devices

Marine Demarty, James Mills and Raul Garcia-Patron Sanchez

arXiv preprint

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)

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

arXiv preprint

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

arXiv preprint

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

Learning Quantum Processes with Quantum Statistical Queries

Wadhwa, Chirag, and Mina Doosti

arXiv preprint

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

2022

Evolving objective function for improved variational quantum optimization

Kolotouros, Ioannis, and Petros Wallden

Physical Review Research 4, no. 2 (2022): 023225

2022

Graph neural network initialisation of quantum approximate optimisation

Jain, Nishant, Brian Coyle, Elham Kashefi, and Niraj Kumar

Quantum 6 (2022): 861

2022

Benchmarking of quantum protocols

Liao, Chin-Te, Sima Bahrani, Francisco Ferreira da Silva, and Elham Kashefi

Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 5298

2022

A game of quantum advantage: linking verification and simulation

França, Daniel Stilck, and Raul Garcia-Patron

Quantum 6 (2022): 753

2022

A continuous variable Born machine

Cepaite, Ieva, Brian Coyle, and Elham Kashefi

Quantum Machine Intelligence 4, no. 1 (2022): 6

2022

Quadratic speed-up for simulating Gaussian boson sampling

Quesada, Nicolás, Rachel S. Chadwick, Bryn A. Bell, Juan Miguel Arrazola, Trevor Vincent, Haoyu Qi, and Raúl García

PRX Quantum 3, no. 1 (2022): 010306

2022

Quantum local differential privacy and quantum statistical query model

Angrisani, Armando, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2022

QEnclave-A practical solution for secure quantum cloud computing

Ma, Yao, Elham Kashefi, Myrto Arapinis, Kaushik Chakraborty, and Marc Kaplan

npj Quantum Information 8, no. 1 (2022): 128

2022

Universal Properties of Partial Quantum Maps

Martinez, Pablo Andres, Chris Heunen, and Robin Kaarsgaard

In The 19th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic 2022

2022

Quantum information effects

Heunen, Chris, and Robin Kaarsgaard

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 6, no. POPL (2022): 1-27

2022

Progress toward practical quantum cryptanalysis by variational quantum cloning

Coyle, Brian, Mina Doosti, Elham Kashefi, and Niraj Kumar

Physical Review A 105, no. 4 (2022): 042604

2022

Dispelling myths on superposition attacks: formal security model and attack analyses

Music, Luka, Céline Chevalier, and Elham Kashefi

Designs, Codes and Cryptography 90, no. 4 (2022): 881-920

2022

On the connection between quantum pseudorandomness and quantum hardware assumptions

Doosti, Mina, Niraj Kumar, Elham Kashefi, and Kaushik Chakraborty

Quantum Science and Technology 7, no. 3 (2022): 035004

2022

Sheaf representation of monoidal categories

Barbosa, Rui Soares, and Chris Heunen

Advances in Mathematics 416 (2023): 108900

2022

Axioms for the category of Hilbert spaces

Heunen, Chris, and Andre Kornell

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 9 (2022): e2117024119

2022

Axioms for the category of Hilbert spaces and linear contractions

Heunen, Chris, Andre Kornell, and Nesta van der Schaaf

Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 56(4):1532-1549, 2024.

2022

Classically Approximating Variational Quantum Machine Learning with Random Fourier Features

Landman, Jonas, Slimane Thabet, Constantin Dalyac, Hela Mhiri, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2022

Adiabatic quantum computing with parameterized quantum circuits

Kolotouros, Ioannis, Ioannis Petrongonas, Milo Prokop, and Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

2022

Cryptographic approach to quantum metrology

Shettell, Nathan, Elham Kashefi, and Damian Markham.

Physical Review A 105, no. 1 (2022): L010401

2022

Practical parallel self-testing of Bell states via magic rectangles

Adamson, Sean A., and Petros Wallden

Physical Review A 105, no. 3 (2022): 032456

2022

Contrary Inferences for Classical Histories within the Consistent Histories Formulation of Quantum Theory

Zampeli, Adamantia, Georgios E. Pavlou, and Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

2022

The CBH characterisation theorem beyond algebraic quantum theory

Heunen, Chris, and Aleks Kissinger

Information and Computation 285 (2022): 104828

2022

Weakly measured while loops: peeking at quantum states

Andrés-Martínez, Pablo, and Chris Heunen

Quantum Science and Technology 7, no. 2 (2022): 025007

2022

Continuous-variable nonlocality and contextuality

Barbosa, Rui Soares, Tom Douce, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Elham Kashefi, and Shane Mansfield

Communications in Mathematical Physics 391, no. 3 (2022): 1047-1089

2022

Differential Privacy Amplification in Quantum and Quantum-inspired Algorithms

Angrisani, Armando, Mina Doosti, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2022

Mitigating errors by quantum verification and postselection

Mezher, Rawad, James Mills, and Elham Kashefi

Physical Review A 105, no. 5 (2022): 052608

2021

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

Colisson, Léo, Frédéric Grosshans, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2021

Quantum versus classical generative modelling in finance

Coyle, Brian, Maxwell Henderson, Justin Chan Jin Le, Niraj Kumar, Marco Paini, and Elham Kashefi

Quantum Science and Technology 6, no. 2 (2021): 024013

2021

Client-server Identification Protocols with Quantum PUF

Doosti, Mina, Niraj Kumar, Mahshid Delavar, and Elham Kashefi

ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing 2, no. 3 (2021): 1-40

2021

Probably approximately correct quantum source coding

Angrisani, Armando, Brian Coyle, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2021

Verifying bqp computations on noisy devices with minimal overhead

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

PRX Quantum 2, no. 4 (2021): 040302.

2021

A Unified Framework For Quantum Unforgeability

Doosti, Mina, Mahshid Delavar, Elham Kashefi, and Myrto Arapinis

arXiv preprint

2021

Secure quantum two-party computation: Impossibility and constructions

Ciampi, Michele, Alexandru Cojocaru, Elham Kashefi, and Atul Mantri

HAL Open Science preprint

2021

Optimal quantum-programmable projective measurements with coherent states

Kumar, Niraj, Ulysse Chabaud, Elham Kashefi, Damian Markham, and Eleni Diamanti

Physical Review Research 3, no. 4 (2021): 043035

2021

Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions: Possibilities and Impossibilities

Arapinis, Myrto, Mahshid Delavar, Mina Doosti, and Elham Kashefi

Quantum 5 (2021): 475

2021

Randomized Benchmarking with Stabilizer Verification and Gate Synthesis

Derbyshire, Ellen, Rawad Mezher, Theodoros Kapourniotis, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2021

Efficient construction of quantum physical unclonable functions with unitary t-designs

Kumar, Niraj, Rawad Mezher, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

2021

The Effect of Noise on the Optimality of Variational Algorithms for Quantum Chemistry

Saib, Waheeda Banu, Ismail Akhalwaya, and Petros Wallden

In IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering. 2021

2021

Imperfect 1-out-of-2 quantum oblivious transfer: bounds, a protocol, and its experimental implementation

Amiri, Ryan, Robert Stárek, David Reichmuth, Ittoop V. Puthoor, Michal Miuda, Ladislav Mita Jr, Miloslav Duek, Petros Wallden, and Erika Andersson

PRX Quantum 2, no. 1 (2021): 010335

2021

Efficient verification of boson sampling

Chabaud, Ulysse, Frédéric Grosshans, Elham Kashefi, and Damian Markham

Quantum 5 (2021): 578

2021

Boson sampling in low-depth optical systems

van der Meer, R., S. Huber, P. W. H. Pinkse, R. García-Patrón, and J. J. Renema

arXiv preprint

2021

Definitions and Security of Quantum Electronic Voting

Arapinis, Myrto, Nikolaos Lamprou, Elham Kashefi, and Anna Pappa

ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing 2, no. 1 (2021): 1-33

2021

Quantum advantage from energy measurements of many-body quantum systems

Novo, Leonardo, Juani Bermejo-Vega, and Raúl García-Patrón

Quantum 5 (2021): 465.

2021

Localisable monads

Constantin, Carmen, Nuiok Dicaire, and Chris Heunen

arXiv preprint

2021

Topos quantum theory with short posets

Harding, John, and Chris Heunen

Order 38, no. 1 (2021): 111-125

2021

Limitations of optimization algorithms on noisy quantum devices

Stilck França, Daniel, and Raul Garcia-Patron

Nature Physics 17, no. 11 (2021): 1221-1227

2020

Tensor topology

Heunen, Chris, Pau Enrique Moliner, and Sean Tull

Journal of pure and applied algebra 224, no. 10 (2020): 106378

2020

Monoidal characterisation of groupoids and connectors

Gran, Marino, Chris Heunen, and Sean Tull

Topology and its Applications 273 (2020): 106966

2020

Randomized benchmarking in the analogue setting

Derbyshire, Ellen, J. Yago Malo, A. J. Daley, Elham Kashefi, and Petros Wallden

Quantum Science and Technology 5, no. 3 (2020): 034001

2020

Quantum magic rectangles: Characterization and application to certified randomness expansion

Adamson, Sean A., and Petros Wallden

Physical Review Research 2, no. 4 (2020): 043317

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