Robust Quantum Extremal Numbers

Absolutely maximally entangled states require every reduction of at most half of the parties to be maximally mixed, a condition that is both rigid and...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Inductively-protected Andreev (IPA) spin qubit

The spin of a quasiparticle trapped in a quantum dot Josephson junction forms the basis of an Andreev spin qubit (ASQ): a semiconductor-superconductor...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Witnessing the architecture of quantum circuits

Determining whether a target unitary can be implemented within a prescribed quantum circuit architecture is a fundamental problem in quantum informati...

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

Spin Qubits in Photon-Coupled Microwave Cavities

Electron spin qubits in microwave cavities provide a promising platform for scalable quantum computing hardware, leveraging long coherence times, char...

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...

arXiv Quantum Physics

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...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Quantum error correction with global control

Reaching fault tolerance means scaling qubit counts by orders of magnitude, a jump that conventional superconducting architectures cannot sustain with...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Perfect Games in Dimension-Bounded Communication

Perfect prepare-and-measure games exhibit an all-or-nothing quantum advantage: a quantum system of dimension $d$ satisfies every prescribed winning co...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Chiral magnons for spin-qubit state transfer

We propose a protocol where chiral magnons mediate a state transfer between two distant spin qubits. The protocol is implemented by varying the coupli...

arXiv Quantum Physics

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...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Photonic Quantum Technology Companies in 2026

Insider Brief Most quantum computers rely on extreme cooling to keep their qubits stable. Photonic quantum computers take a different route by using p...

The Quantum Insider

Electron shuttling as a probe for charge defects

Silicon spin qubits are a leading platform for scalable quantum computing, but their performance is limited by charge noise, widely attributed to two-...

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

Topology of the Set of Entangled State

We investigate the topology of the set $\mathsf E$ of entangled bipartite density operators acting on $\mathbb{C}^{n_1}\otimes\mathbb{C}^{n_2}$. We st...

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 ...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Spatial nonlocality imaging via metasurface

Bell nonlocality is both a defining signature of entanglement and a key quantum information resource. However, visualizing and certifying nonlocal cor...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Agnostic learning of qudit stabilizer states

Learning a classical description of a quantum state is a fundamental task in quantum computation. Among the most important classes of quantum states a...

arXiv Quantum Physics

A Geometric Theory of Fermion-to-Qubit Encodings

Exact fermion to qubit transformations are conventionally regarded as algorithmic tools that translate many-body Hamiltonians into qubit representatio...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Foliated Quantum Error Correction for Qudits

We present a framework for foliating any Pauli-based quantum error-correcting code over prime-dimensional qudits. For any such code, we obtain a qudit...

arXiv Quantum Physics

QSCOUT's Qubit-Boson Gate Set

The Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed (QSCOUT) has developed a qubit-boson gate set for hybrid continuous-discrete variable (CV-DV) quant...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Quantum-Optical Bound States in the Continuum

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are counterintuitive localized states that lie within the continuum of extended states. While extensively realize...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Idling error suppression through gate scheduling

Achieving high-precision quantum computation requires effective suppression of idling errors that occur when qubits remain inactive during waiting per...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Quantum sensing of aging transitions

The aging transition is a critical phenomenon in which collective dynamics deteriorate as the fraction of inactive quantum nodes exceeds a threshold, ...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Three-qubit nonlocality paradoxes: beyond GHZ

Quantum nonlocality paradoxes, such as that of GHZ, provide maximally sharp logical obstructions to classical probabilistic models of quantum correlat...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Quantum machine learning models for graphs

Geometric Machine Learning (GML) successes have been achieved through the thorough study and design of new equivariant neural networks. In comparison,...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Spectral Multipartite Entanglement

We introduce a unified, computable measure of multipartite entanglement based on the spectral properties of an entanglement graph and its associated e...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Ferroelectric transmon

Superconducting qubits are a leading platform for quantum computing. However, simultaneously achieving low noise sensitivity to suppress decoherence a...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Untangling QLDPC Codes with Biased Noise Ancilla

Remarkable technical progress has made high-rate, high-distance, quantum low-density parity-check codes (QLDPC) promising candidates for scalable quan...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Programmable generation of flying cat-qubits

We propose a framework for the direct generation of flying cat-qubit states from vacuum using time-dependent two-photon drives in nonlinear bosonic sy...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Deterministic nonlinear bunching of bosons

The ability of bosonic energy quanta to bunch together in an energy-conserving interaction is a fundamental feature of quantum harmonic oscillators. L...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Self-Sifting quantum key distribution

In this paper, we introduce a novel two-way quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol in which the sender (Alice) and receiver (Bob) employ one qubit of...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Algebraic structures of the Lindblad equation

We investigate the algebraic structure underlying the Lindblad equation for finite-dimensional open quantum systems. By introducing a suitable operato...

arXiv Quantum Physics

How rare are Markovian quantum dynamics?

A profound understanding of decoherence and dissipation in quantum dynamics is crucial for the realistic modeling of the evolution of quantum systems....

arXiv Quantum Physics

A quantum algorithm for one-shot signatures

We provide a pre-obfuscation circuit-level implementation of an efficient one shot signature scheme, which has known applications to delegated signatu...

arXiv Quantum Physics

How Many Qubits Does a Quantum Computer Need?

Guest post by Zeynep Koruturk, Dr. Kris Naudts, & Donald Harmitt of Firgun Ventures and Professor Bob Coecke of Relational Intelligence Limited Few qu...

Quantum Computing Report

New class of magnons live a hundred times longer

Discovery could help in the development of on-chip quantum information technologies that can be scaled down to the nanoscale The post New class of mag...

Physics World - Quantum

Near-Optimal Learning of Local Lindbladians

We study the problem of learning local Lindbladians from black-box access to the physical evolution, and the goal is to estimate all Hamiltonian and d...

arXiv Quantum Physics