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In variational quantum algorithms, parameterization is typically applied to single-qubit gates.In this study, we instead parameterize a generalized controlled gate and propose an algorithm to locally minimize the cost function by maximally…

Quantum computing has garnered attention for its potential to solve complex computational problems with considerable speedup. Despite notable advancements in the field, achieving meaningful scalability and noise control in quantum hardware…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Eduardo Willwock Lussi , Rafael de Santiago , Eduardo Inacio Duzzioni

Quantum oracles play key roles in the studies of quantum computation and quantum information. But implementing quantum oracles efficiently with universal quantum gates is a hard work. Motivated by genetic programming, this paper proposes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shengchao Ding , Zhi Jin , Qing Yang

In this work we study extrema of objective functionals for ultrafast manipulation by a qubit. Traps are extrema of the objective functionals which are optimal for manipulation by quantum systems only locally but not globally. Much effort in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Alexander Pechen , Nikolay Il'in

The so-called welded tree problem provides an example of a black-box problem that can be solved exponentially faster by a quantum walk than by any classical algorithm. Given the name of a special ENTRANCE vertex, a quantum walk can find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Andrew M. Childs , Matthew Coudron , Amin Shiraz Gilani

Evolutionary algorithms have been frequently applied to constrained continuous optimisation problems. We carry out feature based comparisons of different types of evolutionary algorithms such as evolution strategies, differential evolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Shayan Poursoltan , Frank Neumann

Quantum optimal control experiments and simulations have successfully manipulated the dynamics of systems ranging from atoms to biomolecules. Surprisingly, these collective works indicate that the effort (i.e., the number of algorithmic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Katharine W. Moore , Herschel Rabitz

The optimal quantum control theory is employed to determine electric pulses capable of producing quantum gates with high fidelity (higher than 0.9997). Particularly, these quantum gates were chosen to perform the permutation algorithm (Z.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 C. M. Rivera-Ruiz , E. F. de Lima , F. F. Fanchini , V. Lopez-Richard , L. K. Castelano

In the context of evolutionary quantum computing in the literal meaning, a quantum crossover operation has not been introduced so far. Here, we introduce a novel quantum genetic algorithm which has a quantum crossover procedure performing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Akira SaiToh , Robabeh Rahimi , Mikio Nakahara

Several sparsity-constrained algorithms such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit or the Frank-Wolfe algorithm with sparsity constraints work by iteratively selecting a novel atom to add to the current non-zero set of variables. This selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-23 A Rakotomamonjy , S Koço , Liva Ralaivola

The broad success of optimally controlling quantum systems with external fields has been attributed to the favorable topology of the underlying control landscape, where the landscape is the physical observable as a function of the controls.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Katharine W. Moore , Herschel Rabitz

In topologically-protected quantum computation, quantum gates can be carried out by adiabatically braiding two-dimensional quasiparticles, reminiscent of entangled world lines. Bonesteel et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 140503 (2005)], as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-14 Ross B. McDonald , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Google's recent quantum supremacy experiment heralded a transition point where quantum computing performed a computational task, random circuit sampling, that is beyond the practical reach of modern supercomputers. We examine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Alexander Zlokapa , Sergio Boixo , Daniel Lidar

Recently, nonadiabatic geometric quantum computation has been received much attention, due to its fast manipulation and intrinsic error-resilience characteristics. However, to obtain universal geometric quantum control, only limited and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Cheng-Yun Ding , Yan Liang , Kai-Zhi Yu , Zheng-Yuan Xue

As Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices grow in number of qubits, determining good or even adequate parameter configurations for a given application, or for device calibration, becomes a cumbersome task. An evolutionary algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Luke Mortimer , Marta P. Estarellas , Timothy P. Spiller , Irene D'Amico

Recently, researchers have applied genetic algorithms (GAs) to address some problems in quantum computation. Also, there has been some works in the designing of genetic algorithms based on quantum theoretical concepts and techniques. The so…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gilson A. Giraldi , Renato Portugal , Ricardo N. Thess

Fastness and robustness are both critical in the implementation of high-fidelity gates for quantum computation, but in practice, a trade-off has to be made between them. In this paper, we investigate the underlying robust time-optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Xi Cao , Jiangyu Cui , Man Hong Yung , Re-Bing Wu

Despite significant progress in theoretical and laboratory quantum control, engineering quantum systems remains principally challenging due to manifestation of noise and uncertainties associated with the field and Hamiltonian parameters. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Andrew Koswara , Vaibhav Bhutoria , Raj Chakrabarti

The advantages of evolutionary algorithms with respect to traditional methods have been greatly discussed in the literature. While particle swarm optimizers share such advantages, they outperform evolutionary algorithms in that they require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Johann Sienz , Mauro S. Innocente

Two-qubit logical gates are proposed on the basis of two atoms trapped in a cavity setup. Losses in the interaction by spontaneous transitions are efficiently suppressed by employing adiabatic transitions and the Zeno effect. Dynamical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jiannis Pachos , Herbert Walther