Optical Quantum Computing

Under the label of optical quantum computing, there are a variety of protocols and experiments that use the quantum properties of light to achieve a c...

arXiv Quantum Physics

The generalised semi-Clifford conjecture is false

The Clifford hierarchy is a nested sequence of sets of quantum gates that can be fault-tolerantly performed using gate teleportation within standard q...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Virtual quantum neural networks

Quantum neural networks are a prominent model of quantum machine learning. Their training consists in the minimization of a given loss function over a...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Adaptive AI for Pulse-Level Quantum Control

The Control Variational Quantum Eigensolver (ctrl-VQE) directly optimizes microwave pulses to enable faster and lower-error quantum-state preparation,...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Neutral atom quantum computing

Neutral atom qubits are one of the leading approaches for implementation of a large scale quantum computer. The original proposals for neutral atom qu...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Quantum Pessiland

Pessiland is a world where NP is hard on average but one-way functions (OWFs) do not exist [Impagliazzo 1995]. Because almost all classical cryptograp...

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Least Variable Quantum Counting Processes

Counting processes provide a fundamental description of stochastic events ranging from photon detection to clock ticks. A central question is how accu...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Rethinking Quantum Circuits

These notes develop four interconnected ways of reading a quantum circuit. A circuit for us begins as an operational composition of gates; then, it be...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Quantum Simulation of QCD in Axial Gauge

We study quantum simulation of SU(3) non-Abelian gauge theory dynamically coupled with fundamental fermions in $3+1$ dimensions by employing the latti...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Formal Verification of Quantum Ancilla Safety

Ensuring ancilla safety is a critical correctness requirement for quantum compilation, since ancilla qubits are routinely introduced to implement comp...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Entanglement Mpemba Effect

Generating entanglement rapidly and reliably is essential for quantum information processing, communication, and metrology. Dissipative preparation is...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Shor's algorithm requires Fanout

Shor's algorithm is a canonical quantum supremacy target whose core operation relies on the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT). We resolve an open questi...

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Balanced Routing for Symmetric Quantum Circuits

Mapping quantum programs to restricted physical chips requires SWAP operations, incurring depth and error penalties. In symmetric programs, this routi...

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Training Quantum Dragons

The Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) is the standard formalism for nano-scale electron transport. By recasting the NEGF scattering problem as a...

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CP-preserving channels

Completely positive (CP) matrices are ubiquitous in modern science and technology with applications in optimization, graph theory, and quantum entangl...

arXiv Quantum Physics

The trainability of photonic quantum circuits

Variational quantum algorithms are a leading approach to near-term quantum computing, but their scalability can be limited by barren plateaus and the ...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Image Classification on IBM Quantum Computers

Quantum machine learning on real noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware has remained largely confined to binary or few-class tasks, limited ...

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