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For the first time in history, we are seeing a branching point in computing paradigms with the emergence of quantum processing units (QPUs). Extracting the full potential of computation and realizing quantum algorithms with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Sergey Bravyi , Oliver Dial , Jay M. Gambetta , Dario Gil , Zaira Nazario

Recently, increased computational power and data availability, as well as algorithmic advances, have led machine learning techniques to impressive results in regression, classification, data-generation and reinforcement learning tasks.…

Quantum Hamiltonian Computing is a recent approach that uses quantum systems, in particular a single molecule, to perform computational tasks. Within this approach, we present explicit methods to construct logic gates using two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Olivier Giraud , Bertrand Georgeot , Christian Joachim

Quantum computing is rapidly emerging as a promising technology for solving complex optimization problems that arise in various engineering fields. Therefore, it holds significant promise to transform the computational foundations of power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Nikolaos G. Paterakis , Petros Karamanakos , Corey O'Meara , Georgios Papafotiou

As we begin to reach the limits of classical computing, quantum computing has emerged as a technology that has captured the imagination of the scientific world. While for many years, the ability to execute quantum algorithms was only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Bela Bauer , Sergey Bravyi , Mario Motta , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Quantum computing is poised to redefine the algorithmic foundations of communication systems. While quantum superposition and entanglement enable quadratic or exponential speedups for specific problems, identifying use cases where these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Naoki Ishikawa , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Petar Popovski , Robert W. Heath

Quantum gates are the building blocks of quantum circuits, which in turn are the cornerstones of quantum information processing. In this work, we theoretically investigate a single-step implementation of both a universal two- (CNOT) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Luiz O. R. Solak , Daniel Z. Rossatto , Celso J. Villas-Boas

Solving linear systems of equations is ubiquitous in all areas of science and engineering. With rapidly growing data sets, such a task can be intractable for classical computers, as the best known classical algorithms require a time…

Tailoring many-body interactions among a proper quantum system endows it with computing ability by means of static quantum computation in the sense that some of the physical degrees of freedom can be used to store binary information and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Haiqing Wei , Xin Xue

As we approach the era of quantum advantage, when quantum computers (QCs) can outperform any classical computer on particular tasks, there remains the difficult challenge of how to validate their performance. While algorithmic success can…

Despite numerous advances in the field and a seemingly ever-increasing amount of investment, we are still some years away from seeing a production quantum computer in action. However, it is possible to make some educated guesses about the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 James H. Davenport , Jessica R. Jones , Matthew Thomason

Communication scenarios between two parties can be implemented by first encoding messages into some states of a physical system which acts as the physical medium of the communication and then decoding the messages by measuring the state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Teiko Heinosaari , Oskari Kerppo , Leevi Leppäjärvi , Martin Plávala

The superposition of quantum states lies at the heart of physics and has been recently found to serve as a versatile resource for quantum information protocols, defining the notion of quantum coherence. In this contribution, we report on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Valeria Cimini , Ilaria Gianani , Marco Sbroscia , Jan Sperling , Marco Barbieri

Quantum computers use quantum mechanical phenomena to perform conventionally intractable calculations for specific problems. Despite being universal machines, quantum computers are not expected to replace classical computers, but rather, to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Philip Döbler , Manpreet Singh Jattana

Quantum computing is a new approach to computation that utilizes superposition, entanglement, interference, and tunneling to solve problems too complex for classical computers. This paper discusses the basic concepts and development of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Liangzhu Leon Wang , Huiheng Liu , Honghao Fu , Zhipeng Deng , Bing Dong , Naiping Gao

Quantum computing exposes the brilliance of quantum mechanics through computer science and, as such, gives oneself a marvelous and exhilarating journey to go through. This article leads along that journey with a historical and current…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Robert Kudelić

The brain is composed of electrically excitable neuronal networks regulated by the activity of voltage-gated ion channels. Further portraying the molecular composition of the brain, however, will not reveal anything remotely reminiscent of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-16 Danko D. Georgiev

By considering quantum computation as a communication process, we relate its efficiency to a communication capacity. This formalism allows us to rederive lower bounds on the complexity of search algorithms. It also enables us to link the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Bose , L. Rallan , V. Vedral

Quantum computers provide a fundamentally new computing paradigm that promises to revolutionize our ability to solve broad classes of problems. Surprisingly, the basic mathematical structures of gate-based quantum computing, such as unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Brian R. La Cour , S. Andrew Lanham , Corey I. Ostrove

There has been no lack of coverage in the past few years in scientific journals of the topic of quantum computation. Rightly so, as this is a novel idea with--so far--at least one very important practical application (prime factorisation)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. L. Fouché , J. Heidema , P. H. Potgieter