Exponential Separations Between Learning With and Without Quantum Memory
summary
Claims an exponential gap between protocols that can store quantum states and those limited to classical memory, supported by a new learning tree framework and Haar-integral bounds. Concrete results: a purity test needs only O(1) queries with quantum memory (swap test) but Θ(2^{n/2}) copies with classical memory; a Pauli state-property tester uses O(n) queries versus ~2^n classically; shadow tomography lower bound scales like min(M,2^n)/ε^2 classically; a bounded quantum memory trade-off forces exponentially many copies in the gap N−K.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:18What are experiments
- 1:06Recent perspectives
- 2:19The power of quantum memory
- 3:22Protocols with a classical memory
- 6:32Goal
- 7:39Recent work
- 13:46Notation
- 15:51Purity testing
- 17:46Lower bound for purity
- 22:00New results
- 24:40Quantum channels
- 26:24Symmetry distinction
- 28:01Bounded quantum memory
- 31:36Shadow tomography
