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The preparation of data in quantum states is a critical component in the design of quantum algorithms. The cost of this step can significantly limit the realization of quantum advantage in domains such as machine learning, finance, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Alessandro Berti , Francesco Ghisoni

Random access memory is an indispensable device for classical information technology. Analog to this, for quantum information technology, it is desirable to have a random access quantum memory with many memory cells and programmable access…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-25 N. Jiang , Y. -F. Pu , W. Chang , C. Li , S. Zhang , L. -M. Duan

We observe how an active (i.e., requring $2^n$ parallel control operations) QRAM-like effect $$\sum_{y=0}^{N-1} |y\rangle\langle y| \otimes U^y_{\text{result},\text{memory}_y}$$ can be realized, as a quantum circuit of depth $O(n+\sqrt m)$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-26 Tore Vincent Carstens , Dirk Oliver Theis

Random access machines (RAMs) and random access stored-program machines (RASPs) are models of computing that are closer to the architecture of real-world computers than Turing machines (TMs). They are also convenient in complexity analysis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Qisheng Wang , Mingsheng Ying

Near-term quantum computers are primarily limited by errors in quantum operations (or gates) between two quantum bits (or qubits). A physical machine typically provides a set of basis gates that include primitive 2-qubit (2Q) and 1-qubit…

In this paper, we propose the Quantum Data Center (QDC), an architecture combining Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) and quantum networks. We give a precise definition of QDC, and discuss its possible realizations and extensions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Junyu Liu , Connor T. Hann , Liang Jiang

By considering an unreliable oracle in a query-based model of quantum learning, we present a tradeoff relation between the oracle's reliability and the reusability of quantum state of the input data. The tradeoff relation manifests as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jeongho Bang , Arijit Dutta , Seung-Woo Lee , Jaewan Kim

Qubit connectivity is an important property of a quantum processor, with an ideal processor having random access -- the ability of arbitrary qubit pairs to interact directly. Here, we implement a random access superconducting quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 R. K. Naik , N. Leung , S. Chakram , P. Groszkowski , Y. Lu , N. Earnest , D. C. McKay , Jens Koch , D. I. Schuster

Random-access quantum memories may offer computational advantages for quantum computers and networks. In this paper, we advance arrays of solid-state quantum memories towards their usage as random-access quantum memory. We perform quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Markus Teller , Susana Plascencia , Samuele Grandi , Hugues de Riedmatten

It is known that in some cases a Random Access Machine (RAM) benefits from having an additional input that is an arbitrary number, satisfying only the criterion of being sufficiently large. This is known as the ARAM model. We introduce a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Michael Brand

Quantum computing is a rapidly expanding field with applications ranging from optimization all the way to complex machine learning tasks. Quantum memories, while lacking in practical quantum computers, have the potential to bring quantum…

Quantum memory is important to quantum information processing in many ways: a synchronization device to match various processes within a quantum computer, an identity quantum gate that leaves any state unchanged, and a tool to convert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-19 A. I. Lvovsky , B. C. Sanders , W. Tittel

Quantum routers (QRouters) are essential components of bucket-brigade quantum random access memory (QRAM), enabling quantum applications such as Grover's search and quantum machine learning. Despite significant theoretical advances,…

The practical construction of scalable quantum computer hardware capable of executing non-trivial quantum algorithms will require the juxtaposition of different types of quantum systems. We analyze a modular ion trap quantum computer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 C. Monroe , R. Raussendorf , A. Ruthven , K. R. Brown , P. Maunz , L. -M. Duan , J. Kim

Memory management is necessary with the increasing number of multi-connected AI devices and data bandwidth issues. For this purpose, high-speed multi-port memory is used. The traditional multi-port memory solutions are hard-bounded to a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Narendra Singh Dhakad , Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma

Known simulations of random access machines (RAMs) or parallel RAMs (PRAMs) by Boolean circuits incur significant polynomial blowup, due to the need to repeatedly simulate accesses to a large main memory. Consider a single modification to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-30 David Heath

The present von Neumann computing paradigm involves a significant amount of information transfer between a central processing unit (CPU) and memory, with concomitant limitations in the actual execution speed. However, it has been recently…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Fabio Lorenzo Traversa , Fabrizio Bonani , Yuriy V. Pershin , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Universal QRAM (U-QRAM) is a fixed, data-independent unitary interface that implements coherent random-access reads relative to a designated computational "truth-table" basis on the memory register. This work studies restricted-access…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Leonardo Bohac

The goal of the presented paper is to provide an introduction to the basic computational models used in quantum information theory. We review various models of quantum Turing machine, quantum circuits and quantum random access machine…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-12-06 J. A. Miszczak

The Transformer architecture, underpinned by the self-attention mechanism, has become the de facto standard for sequence modeling tasks. However, its core computational primitive scales quadratically with sequence length (O(N^2)), creating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rishiraj Acharya