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With rapid advancements in machine learning, first-order algorithms have emerged as the backbone of modern optimization techniques, owing to their computational efficiency and low memory requirements. Recently, the connection between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Jiaqi Leng , Bin Shi

Monte Carlo methods use random sampling to estimate numerical quantities which are hard to compute deterministically. One important example is the use in statistical physics of rapidly mixing Markov chains to approximately compute partition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Ashley Montanaro

In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm that combines the momentum accelerated gradient method with Schr\"odingerization [S. Jin, N. Liu and Y. Yu, Phys. Rev. Lett, 133 (2024), 230602][S. Jin, N. Liu and Y. Yu, Phys. Rev. A, 108…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Qitong Hu , Xiaoyang He , Shi Jin , Xiao-Dong Zhang

In the modern world, facial identification is an extremely important task in which many applications rely on high performing algorithms to detect faces efficiently. Whilst classical methods of SVM and k-NN commonly used may perform to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Philip Easom-McCaldin , Ahmed Bouridane , Ammar Belatreche , Richard Jiang

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for approximating the ground state and ground state energy of a Hamiltonian. Once the Ansatz has been decided, the quantum part of the algorithm involves the calculation of two overlap…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Kishor Bharti

An efficient quantum algorithm is proposed to solve in polynomial time the parity problem, one of the hardest problems both in conventional quantum computation and in classical computation, on NMR quantum computers. It is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xijia Miao

Matrix scaling is a simple to state, yet widely applicable linear-algebraic problem: the goal is to scale the rows and columns of a given non-negative matrix such that the rescaled matrix has prescribed row and column sums. Motivated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Sander Gribling , Harold Nieuwboer

We present quantum algorithms for the estimation of n-time correlation functions, the local and non-local density of states, and dynamical linear response functions. These algorithms are all based on block-encodings - a versatile technique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Patrick Rall

Quantum computing enables the efficient resolution of complex problems, often outperforming classical methods across various applications. In 2009, Harrow, Hassidim and Lloyd proposed an algorithm for solving linear systems of equations,…

The application of quantum computing to the field of image processing has produced several promising applications: quantum image representation techniques have been developed showing how, by taking advantage of quantum properties like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Giacomo Cavalieri , Dario Maio

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a cornerstone of classical scientific computing, and there is growing interest in whether quantum computers can accelerate such simulations. To date, the existing proposals for fault-tolerant quantum…

We show that nonlinear problems including nonlinear partial differential equations can be efficiently solved by variational quantum computing. We achieve this by utilizing multiple copies of variational quantum states to treat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Michael Lubasch , Jaewoo Joo , Pierre Moinier , Martin Kiffner , Dieter Jaksch

We give quantum speedups of several general-purpose numerical optimisation methods for minimising a function $f:\mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$. First, we show that many techniques for global optimisation under a Lipschitz constraint can be…

We provide a new quantum algorithm that efficiently determines the quality of a least-squares fit over an exponentially large data set by building upon an algorithm for solving systems of linear equations efficiently (Harrow et al., Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Nathan Wiebe , Daniel Braun , Seth Lloyd

Quantum computing is a new model of computation, based on quantum physics. Quantum computers can be exponentially faster than conventional computers for problems such as factoring. Besides full-scale quantum computers, more restricted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Andris Ambainis , Abuzer Yakaryılmaz

We propose a quantum algorithm for `extremal learning', which is the process of finding the input to a hidden function that extremizes the function output, without having direct access to the hidden function, given only partial input-output…

To approximate solutions of complex nonlinear partial differential equations remains a computational challenge, especially for sets of equations relevant in industry, such as Euler or Navier-Stokes equations. Even the most sophisticated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Maximilian Mandelt Buxadé , Stefan Langer , Philipp Bekemeyer

We propose a quantum machine learning algorithm for efficiently solving a class of problems encoded in quantum controlled unitary operations. The central physical mechanism of the protocol is the iteration of a quantum time-delayed equation…

As of now, an optimal quantum algorithm solving partial differential equations eludes us. There are several different methods, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In past years comparisons of these existing methods have been made,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Samantha Tseng , Abhyudaya Chouhan , Dominic Cupidon

Quantum algorithms offer an exponential advantage with respect to the number of dependent variables for solving certain nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). These algorithms typically begin by transforming the original…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Judd Katz , Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan , Abhijeet Alase