Trevisan and Vadhan (FOCS 2000) introduced the notion of (seedless) extractors for samplable distributions as a possible solution to the problem of extracting random keys for cryptographic protocols from weak sources of randomness.
They showed that under a very strong complexity theoretic assumption, there exists a constant $\alpha>0$ such that ... more >>>

We introduce two models of space-bounded quantum interactive proof systems, $\mathbf{QIPL}$ and $\mathbf{QIP_\mathrm{U}L}$. The $\mathbf{QIP_\mathrm{U}L}$ model, a space-bounded variant of quantum interactive proofs ($\mathbf{QIP}$) introduced by Watrous (CC 2003) and Kitaev and Watrous (STOC 2000), restricts verifier actions to unitary circuits. In contrast, $\mathbf{QIPL}$ allows logarithmically many intermediate measurements per ... more >>>

Commuting local Hamiltonians provide a testing ground for studying many of the most interesting open questions in quantum information theory, including the quantum PCP conjecture and the existence of area laws. Although they are a simplified model of quantum computation, the status of the commuting local Hamiltonian problem remains largely ... more >>>