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Construct four-dimensional quantum Yang–Mills theory for every compact simple gauge group and prove that it has a positive mass gap.
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Decide whether the vacuum of a free massive scalar field violates the CHSH inequality between bounded regions at arbitrarily large distances.
Close the gap between the Ω(n) lower bound and O(n^1.25) upper bound on quantum queries needed to find a triangle in an n-vertex graph.
Decide whether the number of stabilizer states needed to write n copies of the T magic state is bounded by a polynomial in n.
Find the smallest output dimension in which two quantum channels violate additivity of minimum output entropy; it lies between 2 and 182.
Decide whether O(log M/ε²) copies of an unknown quantum state suffice, in every dimension, to estimate M given measurement probabilities to accuracy ε.
Characterize the spectra that force every bipartite state with those eigenvalues to be separable, and decide whether a PPT test suffices.
Determine the quantum capacity of qubit Pauli channels; even the depolarizing channel's zero-capacity threshold is only known to lie between 0.064956 and 1/12.
Find a three-dimensional subspace of seven qubits that corrects any single-qubit error, or prove that no ((7,3,3)) code exists.
Prove or refute that minimum output entropy is additive when one of two channels is an arbitrary, possibly non-unital, qubit channel.
Prove or refute that estimating a local Hamiltonian's ground energy to within a constant fraction of its number of terms is QMA-hard.
Prove that stabilizer quantum MDS codes on qudits of dimension q have length at most q²+1, apart from one even-q family, or find a longer one.
Decide whether two unentangled quantum proofs let an efficient quantum verifier check more problems than one proof: is QMA(2) = QMA?
Prove that approximating the permanent of most n×n matrices of independent complex Gaussians is #P-hard, as BosonSampling hardness requires.
Decide whether shared randomness and one bit of communication reproduce all projective measurements on every partially entangled qubit pair.
Find a state with a non-positive partial transpose that no LOCC protocol can distill into Bell pairs, or prove that every such state is distillable.
Prove that for Newtonian point masses, the initial conditions whose motion breaks down in finite time form a set of measure zero.
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Show that in two or more dimensions, −Δ + V keeps a.c. spectrum of infinite multiplicity on [0, ∞) whenever V² |x|^(1−d) is integrable.
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Find the most mutually unbiased bases possible in dimension d when d is not a prime power; for d = 6 it is 3, 4 or 5, and a claimed proof of 3 awaits checking.
Prepare the 23-qubit Golay code's logical zero with fewer than 44 CNOT gates, or prove 44 optimal; at depth 7 the record is 45.
Find a protocol in which a classical verifier checks any efficient quantum computation with one prover and no cryptographic assumptions.
Prove that a nucleus of charge Z can bind at most Z + C electrons, with a constant C independent of Z.
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Find a pure state of eight four-level systems whose every four-party marginal is maximally mixed, or prove that none exists.
Show that every bounded low-degree polynomial on the Boolean cube with non-negligible variance has a variable of polynomially large influence.