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2025 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 50272
Rudolph, Dorian, Sevag Gharibian, and Daniel Nagaj. “Quantum 2-SAT on Low Dimensional Systems Is $\mathsf{QMA}_1$-Complete: Direct Embeddings and Black-Box Simulation.” In 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), 325:1–24, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.85.
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2024 | Journal Article | LibreCat-ID: 48544 |

Gharibian, Sevag. “Guest Column: The 7 Faces of Quantum NP.” ACM SIGACT News 54, no. 4 (2024): 54–91.
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2024 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 50273
Agarwal, Avantika, Sevag Gharibian, Venkata Koppula, and Dorian Rudolph. “Quantum Polynomial Hierarchies: Karp-Lipton, Error Reduction, and Lower Bounds.” In Proceedings of 49th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), 306:7–17, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2024.7.
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2023 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 32407
Gharibian, Sevag, Ryu Hayakawa, François Le Gall, and Tomoyuki Morimae. “Improved Hardness Results for the Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem.” In Proceedings of the 50th EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), 261:1–19, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.32.
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2023 | Journal Article | LibreCat-ID: 50271
Gharibian, Sevag, and François Le Gall. “Dequantizing the Quantum Singular Value Transformation: Hardness and Applications to Quantum Chemistry and the Quantum PCP Conjecture.” SIAM Journal on Computing 52, no. 4 (2023): 1009–38. https://doi.org/10.1137/22m1513721.
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2023 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 31872
Gharibian, Sevag, and Dorian Rudolph. “Quantum Space, Ground Space Traversal, and How to Embed Multi-Prover Interactive Proofs into Unentanglement.” In 14th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), 251:53:1-53:23, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2023.53.
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2023 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 20841 |

Gharibian, Sevag, James Watson, and Johannes Bausch. “The Complexity of Translationally Invariant Problems beyond Ground State Energies.” In Proceedings of the 40th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), 254:54:1-54:21, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2023.54.
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2023 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 34138
Bittel, Lennart, Sevag Gharibian, and Martin Kliesch. “The Optimal Depth of Variational Quantum Algorithms Is QCMA-Hard to Approximate.” In Proceedings of the 38th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC), 264:34:1-34:24. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), 2023. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2023.34.
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2022 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 27531 |

Gharibian, Sevag, and François Le Gall. “Dequantizing the Quantum Singular Value Transformation: Hardness and Applications to Quantum Chemistry and the Quantum PCP Conjecture.” In Proceedings of the 54th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 19–32, 2022.
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2022 | Journal Article | LibreCat-ID: 34700
Gharibian, Sevag, Miklos Santha, Jamie Sikora, Aarthi Sundaram, and Justin Yirka. “Quantum Generalizations of the Polynomial Hierarchy with Applications to QMA(2).” Computational Complexity 31, no. 2 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00037-022-00231-8.
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2022 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 27160 |

Gharibian, Sevag, and Dorian Rudolph. “On Polynomially Many Queries to NP or QMA Oracles.” In 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS 2022), 215:1–27, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.75.
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2021 | Journal Article | LibreCat-ID: 29780
Broadbent, Anne, Sevag Gharibian, and Hong-Sheng Zhou. “Towards Quantum One-Time Memories from Stateless Hardware.” Quantum 5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2021-04-08-429.
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2020 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 13226 |

Gharibian, Sevag, Stephen Piddock, and Justin Yirka. “Oracle Complexity Classes and Local Measurements on Physical Hamiltonians.” In Proceedings of the 37th Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2020), 38, 2020.
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2020 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 8426
Broadbent, Anne, Sevag Gharibian, and Hong-Sheng Zhou. “Towards Quantum One-Time Memories from Stateless Hardware.” In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC), 158:6:1-6:25. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), 2020.
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2020 | Journal Article | LibreCat-ID: 16927 |

Gharibian, Sevag, Marco Aldi, Niel de Beaudrap, and Seyran Saeedi. “On Efficiently Solvable Cases of Quantum K-SAT.” Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2020.
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