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Main Authors: Heinrich, Markus, Haferkamp, Jonas, Roth, Ingo, Helsen, Jonas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23719
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author Heinrich, Markus
Haferkamp, Jonas
Roth, Ingo
Helsen, Jonas
author_facet Heinrich, Markus
Haferkamp, Jonas
Roth, Ingo
Helsen, Jonas
contents Until very recently, it was generally believed that the (approximate) 2-design property is strictly stronger than anti-concentration of random quantum circuits, mainly because it was shown that the latter anti-concentrate in logarithmic depth, while the former generally need linear depth circuits. This belief was disproven by recent results which show that so-called relative-error approximate unitary designs can in fact be generated in logarithmic depth, implying anti-concentration. Their result does however not apply to ordinary local random circuits, a gap which we close in this paper, at least for 2-designs. More precisely, we show that anti-concentration of local random quantum circuits already implies that they form relative-error approximate state 2-designs, making them equivalent properties for these ensembles. Our result holds more generally for any random circuit which is invariant under local (single-qubit) unitaries, independent of the architecture.
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spellingShingle Anti-concentration is (almost) all you need
Heinrich, Markus
Haferkamp, Jonas
Roth, Ingo
Helsen, Jonas
Quantum Physics
Until very recently, it was generally believed that the (approximate) 2-design property is strictly stronger than anti-concentration of random quantum circuits, mainly because it was shown that the latter anti-concentrate in logarithmic depth, while the former generally need linear depth circuits. This belief was disproven by recent results which show that so-called relative-error approximate unitary designs can in fact be generated in logarithmic depth, implying anti-concentration. Their result does however not apply to ordinary local random circuits, a gap which we close in this paper, at least for 2-designs. More precisely, we show that anti-concentration of local random quantum circuits already implies that they form relative-error approximate state 2-designs, making them equivalent properties for these ensembles. Our result holds more generally for any random circuit which is invariant under local (single-qubit) unitaries, independent of the architecture.
title Anti-concentration is (almost) all you need
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23719