Quantum magic and non-commutativity as computational resources in quantum reservoir computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12035v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:00:07 GMT
• Title: Quantum magic and non-commutativity as computational resources in quantum reservoir computing
• Abstract summary: Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) provides a hardware-efficient paradigm for temporal information processing on near-term quantum devices.<n>We develop a theoretical framework that provides a unified analytical treatment of the echo state property (ESP), nonlinear expressive power, and quantum resources.<n>Our results establish a rigorous theoretical hierarchy of QRC architectures and provide prescriptive design principles for experiments targeting genuine quantum advantages in temporal processing.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) provides a hardware-efficient paradigm for temporal information processing on near-term quantum devices. Despite rapid experimental progress, a rigorous understanding of the structural conditions required for its scalable quantum-enhanced performance remains lacking. Here, we develop a theoretical framework in Pauli-Liouville space that provides a unified analytical treatment of the echo state property (ESP), nonlinear expressive power, and quantum resources. We first analyze the widely used qubit-resetting scheme and establish that quantum magic generated by reservoir dynamics is a necessary condition for effective computation, a requirement more fundamental than ESP. However, we prove that this architecture faces inherent expressivity limitations: all nonlinear processing originates exclusively from the classical encoding map, imposing an unavoidable trade-off between nonlinearity and memory capacity. To circumvent this structural bottleneck, we rigorously analyze Hamiltonian encoding, in which temporal inputs are embedded directly into the continuous dynamics generator. We show that the ESP is natively guaranteed by the Liouvillian spectral gap, decoupling it from quantum magic. Crucially, for any non-trivial drive Hamiltonian, the discrete-time update map exhibits a transcendental, infinite-order nonlinear dependence on the instantaneous input. Moreover, the intrinsic non-commutativity of the open-system generators governs the temporal coupling of these nonlinearities, producing highly non-separable processing of the input history. Our results establish a rigorous theoretical hierarchy of QRC architectures and provide prescriptive design principles for experiments targeting genuine quantum advantages in temporal processing.

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