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In this paper, we give an algorithm that finds an epsilon-approximate solution to a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP) problem. The algorithm runs in polynomial time if the rank of the quadratic function and the number of integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Alberto Del Pia

A promising paradigm of quantum computing for achieving practical quantum advantages is quantum annealing or quantum approximate optimization algorithm, where the classical problems are encoded in Ising interactions. However, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Yao Lu , Wentao Chen , Shuaining Zhang , Kuan Zhang , Jialiang Zhang , Jing-Ning Zhang , Kihwan Kim

While the Ising model remains essential to understand physical phenomena, its natural connection to combinatorial reasoning makes it also one of the best models to probe complex systems in science and engineering. We bring a computational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Shaan A. Nagy , Roger Paredes , Jeffrey M. Dudek , Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio , Moshe Y. Vardi

We introduce a self-consistent mean-field quantum optimization algorithm that approximates the ground state of classical Ising Hamiltonians. The algorithm decomposes the problem into independent subproblems and treats the interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Maxime Dupont , Bhuvanesh Sundar , Meenambika Gowrishankar

We establish a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for partition functions of quantum spin models at high temperature. Our algorithm is based on the quantum cluster expansion of Neto\v{c}n\'y and Redig and the cluster expansion approach…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Ryan L. Mann , Tyler Helmuth

Simulation of realistic classical mechanical systems is of great importance to many areas of engineering such as robotics, dynamics of rotating machinery and control theory. In this work, we develop quantum algorithms to estimate quantities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Hari Krovi

We demonstrate that a high fidelity approximation to $| \Psi_b \rangle$, the quantum superposition over all bit strings within Hamming distance $b$ of the codewords of a dimension-$k$ linear code over $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$, can be efficiently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Edward Farhi , Stephen P. Jordan

In this paper, we consider the multiple probabilistic covering location problem (MPCLP), which attempts to open a fixed number of facilities to maximize the total covered customer demand under a joint probabilistic coverage setting. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Yan-Ru Wang , Wei-Kun Chen , Ivana Ljubić

In VLSI physical design, many algorithms require the solution of difficult combinatorial optimization problems such as max/min-cut, max-flow problems etc. Due to the vast number of elements typically found in this problem domain, these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Chase Cook , Hengyang Zhao , Takashi Sato , Masayuki Hiromoto , Sheldon X. -D. Tan

The mining in physics and biology for accelerating the hardcore algorithm to solve non-deterministic polynomial (NP) hard problems has inspired a great amount of special-purpose ma-chine models. Ising machine has become an efficient solver…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Wenchen Sun , Wenjia Zhang , Yuanyuan Liu , Qingwen Liu , Zuyuan He

Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms have important applications in counting problems and in machine learning problems, settings that involve estimating quantities that are difficult to compute exactly. How much can quantum computers speed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Aram W. Harrow , Annie Y. Wei

Quantum samplers are believed capable of sampling efficiently from distributions that are classically hard to sample from. We consider a sampler inspired by the classical Ising model. It is nonadaptive and therefore experimentally amenable.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Animesh Datta

We establish an efficient approximation algorithm for the partition functions of a class of quantum spin systems at low temperature, which can be viewed as stable quantum perturbations of classical spin systems. Our algorithm is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Tyler Helmuth , Ryan L. Mann

Quantum approximate optimization is one of the promising candidates for useful quantum computation, particularly in the context of finding approximate solutions to Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. However, the…

We learn optimal instance-specific heuristics for the global minimization of nonconvex quadratically-constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs). Specifically, we consider partitioning-based convex mixed-integer programming relaxations for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Rohit Kannan , Harsha Nagarajan , Deepjyoti Deka

Variational quantum algorithms constitute one of the most widespread methods for using current noisy quantum computers. However, it is unknown if these heuristic algorithms provide any quantum-computational speedup, although we cannot…

This paper presents a quantum algorithm for solving the fractional Poisson equation \((-\Delta)^s u = f\) with \(s \in (0,1)\) on bounded domains. The proposed approach combines rational approximation techniques with quantum linear system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Yin Yang , Yue Yu , Long Zhang , Ming Zhou

The partition function is an essential quantity in statistical mechanics, and its accurate computation is a key component of any statistical analysis of quantum system and phenomenon. However, for interacting many-body quantum systems, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Yusen Wu , Jingbo Wang

Demonstrating quantum advantage has been a pressing challenge in the field. Most claimed quantum speedups rely on a subroutine in which classical information can be accessed in a coherent quantum manner, which imposes a crucial constraint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nhat A. Nghiem

Optimally mapping a parallel application to compute and communication resources is increasingly important as both system size and heterogeneity increase. A similar mapping problem exists in gate-based quantum computing where the objective…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Anastasiia Butko , Ilyas Turimbetov , George Michelogiannakis , David Donofrio , Didem Unat , John Shalf