Unconditional and exponentially large violation of classicality

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Main Authors: Benedetti, Marcello, Marin-Sanchez, Gabriel, Weggemans, Jordi, Rosenkranz, Matthias, Buhrman, Harry
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Published: 2025
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author Benedetti, Marcello
Marin-Sanchez, Gabriel
Weggemans, Jordi
Rosenkranz, Matthias
Buhrman, Harry
author_facet Benedetti, Marcello
Marin-Sanchez, Gabriel
Weggemans, Jordi
Rosenkranz, Matthias
Buhrman, Harry
contents Testing the predictions of quantum mechanics has been one of the main experimental endeavors for decades. Recent advancements in technology led to a number of demonstrations which test non-classicality via specific computational tasks. Limitations of these experiments include dependence on complexity theory assumptions, susceptibility to hardware noise and inefficient verification, raising questions about their scalability. We propose to test non-classicality using a game based on complement sampling, an efficiently verifiable problem that achieves the largest possible separation between quantum and classical computation when both input and output represent samples from probability distributions. When restricting the input to instances inspired by the Bernstein-Vazirani problem, our game admits an exponentially large violation of classicality without relying on computational hardness assumptions. We execute the game on Quantinuum System Model H2 trapped-ion quantum computers, with experiments consisting of thousands of different circuits on up to 55 qubits. The observed scores can be explained by a systematic adoption of a quantum strategy, further corroborating the quantum nature of the hardware in an efficient and scalable way.
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spellingShingle Unconditional and exponentially large violation of classicality
Benedetti, Marcello
Marin-Sanchez, Gabriel
Weggemans, Jordi
Rosenkranz, Matthias
Buhrman, Harry
Quantum Physics
Testing the predictions of quantum mechanics has been one of the main experimental endeavors for decades. Recent advancements in technology led to a number of demonstrations which test non-classicality via specific computational tasks. Limitations of these experiments include dependence on complexity theory assumptions, susceptibility to hardware noise and inefficient verification, raising questions about their scalability. We propose to test non-classicality using a game based on complement sampling, an efficiently verifiable problem that achieves the largest possible separation between quantum and classical computation when both input and output represent samples from probability distributions. When restricting the input to instances inspired by the Bernstein-Vazirani problem, our game admits an exponentially large violation of classicality without relying on computational hardness assumptions. We execute the game on Quantinuum System Model H2 trapped-ion quantum computers, with experiments consisting of thousands of different circuits on up to 55 qubits. The observed scores can be explained by a systematic adoption of a quantum strategy, further corroborating the quantum nature of the hardware in an efficient and scalable way.
title Unconditional and exponentially large violation of classicality
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11008