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Quantum adiabatic optimization seeks to solve combinatorial problems using quantum dynamics, requiring the Hamiltonian of the system to align with the problem of interest. However, these Hamiltonians are often incompatible with the native…

We study an architecture for implementing adiabatic quantum computation with trapped neutral atoms. Ground state atoms are dressed by laser fields in a manner conditional on the Rydberg blockade mechanism, thereby providing the requisite…

Minor embedding is essential for mapping largescale combinatorial problems onto quantum annealers, particularly in quantum machine learning and optimization. This work presents an optimized, universal minor-embedding framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Salvatore Sinno , Thomas Groß , Nicholas Chancellor , Bhavika Bhalgamiya , Arati Sahoo

Matching problems on 3D shapes and images are challenging as they are frequently formulated as combinatorial quadratic assignment problems (QAPs) with permutation matrix constraints, which are NP-hard. In this work, we address such problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

Ising Machines are emerging hardware architectures that efficiently solve NP-Hard combinatorial optimization problems. Generally, combinatorial problems are transformed into quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) form, but this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chirag Garg , Sayeef Salahuddin

Adiabatic quantum computing has evolved in recent years from a theoretical field into an immensely practical area, a change partially sparked by D-Wave System's quantum annealing hardware. These multimillion-dollar quantum annealers offer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 Timothy D. Goodrich , Travis S. Humble , Blair D. Sullivan

A major challenge in quantum computing is to solve general problems with limited physical hardware. Here, we implement digitized adiabatic quantum computing, combining the generality of the adiabatic algorithm with the universality of the…

Digitized adiabatic quantum factorization is a hybrid algorithm that exploits the advantage of digitized quantum computers to implement efficient adiabatic algorithms for factorization through gate decompositions of analog evolutions. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Felip Pellicer , Juan José García-Ripoll , Alan C. Santos

Current quantum annealing (QA) hardware suffers from practical limitations such as finite temperature, sparse connectivity, small qubit numbers, and control error. We propose new algorithms for mapping boolean constraint satisfaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Zhengbing Bian , Fabian Chudak , Robert Israel , Brad Lackey , William G. Macready , Aidan Roy

This study addresses the minor-embedding problem, which involves mapping the variables of an Ising model onto a quantum annealing processor. The primary motivation stems from the observed performance disparity of quantum annealers when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Aitor Gomez-Tejedor , Eneko Osaba , Esther Villar-Rodriguez

In the circuit model of quantum computing, amplitude amplification techniques can be used to find solutions to NP-hard problems defined on $n$-bits in time $\text{poly}(n) 2^{n/2}$. In this work, we investigate whether such general…

Quantum annealing provides a promising route for the development of quantum optimization devices, but the usefulness of such devices will be limited in part by the range of implementable problems as dictated by hardware constraints. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Walter Vinci , Tameem Albash , Gerardo Paz-Silva , Itay Hen , Daniel A. Lidar

NP problems are closely related to practical optimization challenges but often suffer from exponential increases in computation time as problem sizes grow. Quantum annealing offers a promising approach to solve NP problems faster than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Toru Fujii , Koshi Komuro , Kaito Tomari

In the Graph Isomorphism problem two N-vertex graphs G and G' are given and the task is to determine whether there exists a permutation of the vertices of G that preserves adjacency and transforms G into G'. If yes, then G and G' are said…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Frank Gaitan , Lane Clark

We develop a non-cooperative game-theoretic model for the problem of graph minor-embedding to show that optimal compiling of adiabatic quantum programs in the sense of Nash equilibrium is possible.

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Faisal Shah Khan , Nada Elsokkary , Travis S. Humble

Optimization or sampling of arbitrary pairwise Ising models, in a quantum annealing protocol of constrained interaction topology, can be enabled by a minor-embedding procedure. The logical problem of interest is transformed to a physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Jack Raymond , Ndiamé Ndiaye , Gautam Rayaprolu , Andrew King

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) is a generic technique to model various NP-hard Combinatorial Optimization problems (CO) in the form of binary variables. Ising Hamiltonian is used to model the energy function of a system.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Redwan Ahmed Rizvee , Raheeb Hassan , Md. Mosaddek Khan

We study the relation between the Ising problem Hamiltonian parameters and the minimum spectral gap (min-gap) of the system Hamiltonian in the Ising-based quantum annealer. The main argument we use in this paper to assess the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Vicky Choi

Ising computing provides a new computing paradigm for many hard combinatorial optimization problems. Ising computing essentially tries to solve the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem, which is also described by the Ising…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Chase Cook , Wentian Jin , Sheldon X. -D. Tan

There is a growing interest in harnessing the potential of the Rydberg-atom system to address complex combinatorial optimization challenges. Here we present an experimental demonstration of how the quadratic unconstrained binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Andrew Byun , Junwoo Jung , Kangheun Kim , Minhyuk Kim , Seokho Jeong , Heejeong Jeong , Jaewook Ahn