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Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a central field for understanding how energy conversion processes occur in microscopic systems. In these systems, effects such as coherence, entanglement, and non-Markovianity play key roles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca

Many important quantities in quantum information science, such as entropy and entanglement, are non-linear functions of the density matrix and cannot be expressed as operator observables. Standard open-system approaches evolve only a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Julian Rapp , Radhika H. Joshi , Alwin van Steensel , Yuli V. Nazarov , Mohammad H. Ansari

As quantum computing architecture matures, it is important to investigate new technologies that lend unique advantages. In this work, we propose, Qompose, a neutral atom quantum computing framework for efficiently composing quantum circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Daniel Silver , Tirthak Patel , Devesh Tiwari

The transfer of information between two physical locations is an essential component of both classical and quantum computing. In quantum computing the transfer of information must be coherent to preserve quantum states and hence the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Dylan Lewis , João P. Moutinho , António Costa , Yasser Omar , Sougato Bose

Ultra-cold atomic gases are unique in terms of the degree of controllability, both for internal and external degrees of freedom. This makes it possible to use them for the study of complex quantum many-body phenomena. However in many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Rick Mukherjee , Frederic Sauvage , Harry Xie , Robert Löw , Florian Mintert

Quantum Annealing (QA) and the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) are two special cases of the following control problem: apply a combination of two Hamiltonians to minimize the energy of a quantum state. Which is more…

Annealing approach to quantum tomography is theoretically proposed. First, based on the maximum entropy principle, we introduce classical parameters to combine "quantum models (or quantum states)" given a prior for potentially representing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Kentaro Imafuku

We introduce stochastic and quantum finite-state transducers as computation-theoretic models of classical stochastic and quantum finitary processes. Formal process languages, representing the distribution over a process's behaviors, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-29 Karoline Wiesner , James P. Crutchfield

In this work, we introduce a new way to quantify information flow in quantum systems, especially for parameterized quantum circuits. We use a graph representation of the circuits and propose a new distance metric using the mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Abhinav Anand , Lasse Bjørn Kristensen , Felix Frohnert , Sukin Sim , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Quantum security improves cryptographic protocols by applying quantum mechanics principles, assuring resistance to both quantum and conventional computer attacks. This work addresses these issues by integrating Quantum Key Distribution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Tasmin Karim , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Md. Fahim Sultan , Mst Shapna Akter

We show that energy dissipation in slowly-driven, Markovian quantum systems at low temperature is linked to the geometry of the driving protocol through the quantum (or Fubini-Study) metric. Utilizing these findings, we establish lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Iliya Esin , Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Frederik Nathan , Gil Refael

Landauer's principle introduces a symmetry between computational and physical processes: erasure of information, a logically irreversible operation, must be underlain by an irreversible transformation dissipating energy. Monitoring micro-…

We introduce a strategy to develop optimally designed fields for continuous dynamical decoupling. Using our methodology, we obtain the optimal continuous field configuration to maximize the fidelity of a general one-qubit quantum gate. To…

Simple constructions and protocols are demonstrated to allow the implementation of universal quantum computation on an arbitrarily large quantum system by controlling a fixed number of spins, vastly reducing the engineering requirements in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 Alastair Kay

Discrete combinatorial optimization consists in finding the optimal configuration that minimizes a given discrete objective function. An interpretation of such a function as the energy of a classical system allows us to reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sergio Boixo , Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando Somma

We discuss in general how to geometrically visualize a qudit system, with a particular interest in thermal states. The principle of maximum entropy is used to study the geometric properties of an ensemble of finite dimensional Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 J. A. López-Saldívar , O. Castaños , S. Cordero , E. Nahmad-Achar , R. López-Peña

We conduct numerical simulations for an autonomous information engine comprising a set of coupled double quantum dots using a simple model. The steady-state entropy production rate in each component, heat and electron transfer rates are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-29 Katsuaki Tanabe

Achieving high-fidelity control in the presence of strong non-Markovian noise is critical for the optimization of emergent solid-state quantum devices. We present a highly efficient optimization framework that combines automatic…

We present an approach based on a density matrix expansion to study thermodynamic properties of a quantum system strongly coupled to two or more baths. For slow external driving of the system, we identify the adiabatic and nonadiabatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Wenjie Dou , Jakob Bätge , Amikam Levy , Michael Thoss

This paper proposes a quantum framework for the design of communication topologies in consensus-based multi-agent systems. The communication graph is selected online by solving a mixed-integer quadratic program (MIQP) that minimizes a cost…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Milad Hasanzadeh , Amin Kargarian