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Quantum graphs are an operator space generalization of classical graphs that have emerged in different branches of mathematics including operator theory, non-commutative topology and quantum information theory. In this paper, we obtain…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Priyanga Ganesan

The set of semialgebraic graphs having countable list-chromatic numbers is characterized. Some other related sets of graphs having countable list-chromatic numbers also are.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-25 James H. Schmerl

We develop further the new versions of quantum chromatic numbers of graphs introduced by the first and fourth authors. We prove that the problem of computation of the commuting quantum chromatic number of a graph is solvable by an SDP…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Vern I. Paulsen , Simone Severini , Daniel Stahlke , Ivan G. Todorov , Andreas Winter

As a fundamental metric for quantifying quantum advantage in non-local games, the quantum chromatic number reveals the power of entanglement in distributed tasks. In this paper, we investigate this parameter for $q$-ary Hamming graphs and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Xiwang Cao , Keqin Feng , Hexiang Huang , Yulin Yang , Zihao Zhang

The fractional and circular chromatic numbers are the two most studied non-integral refinements of the chromatic number of a graph. Starting from the definition of a coloring base of a graph, which originated in work related to ergodic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Pablo Candela , Carlos Catala , Robert Hancock , Adam Kabela , Daniel Kral , Ander Lamaison , Lluis Vena

Current quantum computing devices have different strengths and weaknesses depending on their architectures. This means that flexible approaches to circuit design are necessary. We address this task by introducing a novel space-efficient…

Quantum graphs are commonly used as models of complex quantum systems, for example molecules, networks of wires, and states of condensed matter. We consider quantum statistics for indistinguishable spinless particles on a graph,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-11 JM Harrison , JP Keating , JM Robbins

Graph structures are ubiquitous throughout the natural sciences. Here we consider graph-structured quantum data and describe how to carry out its quantum machine learning via quantum neural networks. In particular, we consider training data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Kerstin Beer , Megha Khosla , Julius Köhler , Tobias J. Osborne

We define the independence ratio and the chromatic number for bounded, self-adjoint operators on an L^2-space by extending the definitions for the adjacency matrix of finite graphs. In analogy to the Hoffman bounds for finite graphs, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Christine Bachoc , Evan DeCorte , Fernando Mario de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

We describe some basic tools in the spectral theory of Schr\"odinger operator on metric graphs (also known as "quantum graph") by studying in detail some basic examples. The exposition is kept as elementary and accessible as possible. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Gregory Berkolaiko

We introduce notions of being "triangle-free" and "strongly triangle-free" for operator systems in M_n(C) considered as quantum graphs. Several examples and non-examples are discussed. We provide a complete characterization of strongly…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Nik Weaver

We use a well known concept of proper vertex colouring of a graph to introduce the construction of a chromatic completion graph and its related parameter, the chromatic completion number of a graph. We then give the chromatic completion…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-09-06 E. G Mphako-Banda , J. Kok

Quantum annealing is a powerful tool for solving and approximating combinatorial optimization problems such as graph partitioning, community detection, centrality, routing problems, and more. In this paper we explore the use of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Joel E. Pion , Susan M. Mniszewski

An important topic in quantum information is the theory of error correction codes. Practical situations often involve quantum systems with states in an infinite dimensional Hilbert space, for example coherent states. Motivated by these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 G. G. Amosov , A. S. Mokeev , A. N. Pechen

In this work, we propose novel families of positional encodings tailored to graph neural networks obtained with quantum computers. These encodings leverage the long-range correlations inherent in quantum systems that arise from mapping the…

We propose a new approach for defining and searching clusters in graphs that represent real technological or transaction networks. In contrast to the standard way of finding dense parts of a graph, we concentrate on the structure of edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-16 András London , Ryan R. Martin , András Pluhár

We establish a formal bridge between qubit-based and photonic quantum computing. We do this by defining a functor from the ZX calculus to linear optical circuits. In the process we provide a compositional theory of quantum linear optics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Giovanni de Felice , Bob Coecke

Quantum computers are expected to give major speed-ups for the simulation of quantum systems. In this work, we present quantum gates that simulate the colour part of the interactions of quarks and gluons in perturbative quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-04 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Mathieu Pellen

This work shows that minimizing the depth of a quantum circuit composed of commuting operations reduces to a vertex coloring problem on an appropriately constructed graph, where gates correspond to vertices and edges encode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Hochang Lee , Kyung Chul Jeong , Panjin Kim

Categorical quantum mechanics (CQM) and the theory of quantum groups rely heavily on the use of structures that have both an algebraic and co-algebraic component, making them well-suited for manipulation using diagrammatic techniques.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Aleks Kissinger , David Quick