Gottesman-Knill Limit on One-way Communication Complexity: Tracing the Quantum Advantage down to Magic Resources

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Main Authors: Chowdhury, Snehasish Roy, Naik, Sahil Gopalkrishna, Chakraborty, Ananya, Patra, Ram Krishna, Ghosh, Subhendu B., Ghosal, Pratik, Banik, Manik, Maity, Ananda G.
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author Chowdhury, Snehasish Roy
Naik, Sahil Gopalkrishna
Chakraborty, Ananya
Patra, Ram Krishna
Ghosh, Subhendu B.
Ghosal, Pratik
Banik, Manik
Maity, Ananda G.
author_facet Chowdhury, Snehasish Roy
Naik, Sahil Gopalkrishna
Chakraborty, Ananya
Patra, Ram Krishna
Ghosh, Subhendu B.
Ghosal, Pratik
Banik, Manik
Maity, Ananda G.
contents Quantum systems are known to offer advantages over their classical counterpart in communication complexity protocols, where the aim is to minimize the amount of information exchange between distant parties to compute global functions of their distributed inputs. In this work, we establish that any one-way communication protocol implemented using a prime-dimensional quantum system -- restricted to stabilizer-state encodings and Clifford-operation decodings -- can be exactly simulated by transmitting a classical system of the same dimension, given access to shared randomness between the sender and receiver. In direct analogy with the Gottesman-Knill theorem, which attributes quantum computational speedup to non-stabilizer resources, commonly known as the magic resources, our result identifies the same non-stabilizer resources as the essential ingredient for the quantum advantage in one-way communication complexity. Furthermore, we present explicit tasks where even a 'minimal magic resource' suffices to achieve a provable quantum advantage, highlighting its efficient use in communication protocols.
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spellingShingle Gottesman-Knill Limit on One-way Communication Complexity: Tracing the Quantum Advantage down to Magic Resources
Chowdhury, Snehasish Roy
Naik, Sahil Gopalkrishna
Chakraborty, Ananya
Patra, Ram Krishna
Ghosh, Subhendu B.
Ghosal, Pratik
Banik, Manik
Maity, Ananda G.
Quantum Physics
Quantum systems are known to offer advantages over their classical counterpart in communication complexity protocols, where the aim is to minimize the amount of information exchange between distant parties to compute global functions of their distributed inputs. In this work, we establish that any one-way communication protocol implemented using a prime-dimensional quantum system -- restricted to stabilizer-state encodings and Clifford-operation decodings -- can be exactly simulated by transmitting a classical system of the same dimension, given access to shared randomness between the sender and receiver. In direct analogy with the Gottesman-Knill theorem, which attributes quantum computational speedup to non-stabilizer resources, commonly known as the magic resources, our result identifies the same non-stabilizer resources as the essential ingredient for the quantum advantage in one-way communication complexity. Furthermore, we present explicit tasks where even a 'minimal magic resource' suffices to achieve a provable quantum advantage, highlighting its efficient use in communication protocols.
title Gottesman-Knill Limit on One-way Communication Complexity: Tracing the Quantum Advantage down to Magic Resources
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19369