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We design an adiabatic quantum algorithm for the counting problem, i.e., approximating the proportion, $\alpha$, of the marked items in a given database. As the quantum system undergoes a designed cyclic adiabatic evolution, it acquires a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-21 Chi Zhang , Zhaohui Wei , Anargyros Papageorgiou

Adiabatic quantum programming defines the time-dependent mapping of a quantum algorithm into an underlying hardware or logical fabric. An essential step is embedding problem-specific information into the quantum logical fabric. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 Christine Klymko , Blair D. Sullivan , Travis S. Humble

I show how to protect adiabatic quantum computation (AQC) against decoherence and certain control errors, using a hybrid methodology involving dynamical decoupling, subsystem and stabilizer codes, and energy gaps. Corresponding error bounds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-02 Daniel A. Lidar

Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) is an attractive paradigm for solving hard integer polynomial optimization problems. Available hardware restricts the Hamiltonians to be of a structure that allows only pairwise interactions. This requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 Raouf Dridi , Hedayat Alghassi , Sridhar Tayur

Over the last decades, there have been many proposals for quantum computation. One of the promising candidates is adiabatic quantum computation (AQC). The central idea of AQC is about finding the ground state of a system with a problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 P. V. Pyshkin , Da-Wei Luo , J. Q. You , Lian-Ao Wu

We propose a variational principle to compute a quantum adiabatic brachistochrone (QAB) for open systems. Using the notion of "adiabatic speed" based on the energy gaps, we derive a Lagrangian associated to the functional measuring the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-14 Alan C. Santos , Celso J. Villas-Boas , Romain Bachelard

We propose a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm for non-equilibrium dynamics in a system with a parameter varying as a function of time. The method is based on successive applications of an evolving Hamiltonian to an initial state and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-09 Cheng-Wei Liu , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Anders W. Sandvik

We review a scheme for the systematic design of quantum control protocols based on shortcuts to adiabaticity in few-level quantum systems. The adiabatic dynamics is accelerated by introducing high-frequency modulations in the control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Francesco Petiziol , Florian Mintert , Sandro Wimberger

Adiabatic quantum computers can solve difficult optimization problems (e.g., the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem), and they seem well suited to train machine learning models. In this paper, we describe an adiabatic…

We investigate the optimization of quantum control from a differential geometric perspective. In our approach, optimal control minimizes the cost associated with evolving a quantum state, with the cost quantified by the length of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Chengming Tan , Yuhao Cai , Jinyi Zhang , Shengli Ma , Chenwei Lv , Ren Zhang

The geometric phase stands as a foundational concept in quantum physics, revealing deep connections between geometric structures and quantum dynamical evolution. Unlike dynamical phases, geometric phases exhibit intrinsic resilience to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Zheng-Yuan Xue , Cheng-Yun Ding

We have studied the decoherence properties of adiabatic quantum computation (AQC) in the presence of in general non-Markovian, e.g., low-frequency, noise. The developed description of the incoherent Landau-Zener transitions shows that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. H. S. Amin , Dmitri V. Averin , James A. Nesteroff

Adiabatic quantum computing~(AQC) is based on the adiabatic principle, where a quantum system remains in an instantaneous eigenstate of the driving Hamiltonian. The final state of the Hamiltonian encodes solution to the problem of interest.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Hefeng Wang , Lian-Ao Wu

We propose Quantum Riemannian Hamiltonian Descent (QRHD), a quantum algorithm for continuous optimization on Riemannian manifolds that extends Quantum Hamiltonian Descent (QHD) by incorporating geometric structure of the parameter space via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yoshihiko Abe , Ryo Nagai

Adiabatic quantum computation employs a slow change of a time-dependent control function (or functions) to interpolate between an initial and final Hamiltonian, which helps to keep the system in the instantaneous ground state. When the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-26 Constantin Brif , Matthew D. Grace , Mohan Sarovar , Kevin C. Young

The NP-complete problem of the travelling salesman (TSP) is considered in the framework of quantum adiabatic computation (QAC). We first derive a remarkable lower bound for the computation time for adiabatic algorithms in general as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tien D. Kieu

At present, several models for quantum computation have been proposed. Adiabatic quantum computation scheme particularly offers this possibility and is based on a slow enough time evolution of the system, where no transitions take place. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 P. J. Salas Peralta

We extend the family of problems that may be implemented on an adiabatic quantum optimizer (AQO). When a quadratic optimization problem has at least one set of discrete controls and the constraints are linear, we call this a quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Rishabh Chandra , N. Tobias Jacobson , Jonathan E. Moussa , Steven H. Frankel , Sabre Kais

Geometric quantum computation is the idea that geometric phases can be used to implement quantum gates, i.e., the basic elements of the Boolean network that forms a quantum computer. Although originally thought to be limited to adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 Erik Sjöqvist , Vahid Azimi Mousolou , Carlo M. Canali

Quantum computing promises significant improvements of computation capabilities in various fields such as machine learning and complex optimization problems. Recent technological advancements suggest that the adiabatic quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Veit Stooß , Martin Ulmke , Felix Govaers