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Matching problems on 3D shapes and images are challenging as they are frequently formulated as combinatorial quadratic assignment problems (QAPs) with permutation matrix constraints, which are NP-hard. In this work, we address such problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Marcel Seelbach Benkner , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Michael Moeller

Quantum algorithms rely on quantum computers for implementation, but the physical connectivity constraints of modern quantum processors impede the efficient realization of quantum algorithms. Qubit mapping, a critical technology for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Wenjie Sun , Xiaoyu Li , Lianhui Yu , Zhigang Wang , Geng Chen , Desheng Zheng , Guowu Yang

Quantum computing (QC) technologies have reached a second renaissance in the last decade. Some fully programmable QC devices have been built based on superconducting or ion trap technologies. Although different quantum technologies have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Yu Zhang , Haowei Deng , Quanxi Li

Full connectivity of qubits is necessary for most quantum algorithms, which is difficult to directly implement on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum processors. However, inserting swap gate to enable the two-qubit gates between uncoupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Bin-Han Lu , Yu-Chun Wu , Wei-Cheng Kong , Qi Zhou , Guo-Ping Guo

We introduce LightSABRE, a significant enhancement of the SABRE algorithm that advances both runtime efficiency and circuit quality. LightSABRE addresses the increasing demands of modern quantum hardware, which can now accommodate complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Henry Zou , Matthew Treinish , Kevin Hartman , Alexander Ivrii , Jake Lishman

The recent progress in the physical realization of quantum computers (the first publicly available ones--IBM's QX architectures--have been launched in 2017) has motivated research on automatic methods that aid users in running quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Robert Wille , Lukas Burgholzer , Alwin Zulehner

This paper addresses quantum circuit mapping for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. Since NISQ computers constraint two-qubit operations on limited couplings, an input circuit must be transformed into an equivalent output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Toshinari Itoko , Rudy Raymond , Takashi Imamichi , Atsushi Matsuo

Quantum computing promises breakthroughs in simulating and solving complex, classically intractable problems. However, current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are relatively small and error-prone, prohibiting large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Gary J Mooney

Near-term quantum computers will operate in a noisy environment, without error correction. A critical problem for near-term quantum computing is laying out a logical circuit onto a physical device with limited connectivity between qubits.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Abtin Molavi , Amanda Xu , Martin Diges , Lauren Pick , Swamit Tannu , Aws Albarghouthi

Research into the development of special-purpose computing architectures designed to solve quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems has flourished in recent years. It has been demonstrated in the literature that such…

Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) machines are not fault-tolerant, operate few qubits (currently, less than hundred), but are capable of executing interesting computations. Above the quantum supremacy threshold (approx. 60 qubits),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Alexandru Paler

A massive gap exists between current quantum computing (QC) prototypes, and the size and scale required for many proposed QC algorithms. Current QC implementations are prone to noise and variability which affect their reliability, and yet…

Quantum algorithms can be realized in the form of a quantum circuit. To map quantum circuit for specific quantum algorithm to quantum hardware, qubit mapping is an imperative technique based on the qubit topology. Due to the neighbourhood…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Amit Saha , Debasri Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti

Minimising EPR consumption is the dominant objective when routing a quantum circuit on a distributed quantum computer (DQC). We present dSABRE, a SABRE-style router for multi-core processors that, on each iteration of a lookahead-driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Sanjiang Li

One of the key compilation steps in Quantum Computing (QC) is to determine an initial logical to physical mapping of the qubits used in a quantum circuit. The impact of the starting qubit layout can vastly affect later scheduling and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Blake Gerard , Martin Kong

Qubit Mapping is a critical task in Quantum Compilation, as modern Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) are constrained to nearest-neighbor interactions defined by a qubit coupling graph. This compiler pass repairs the connectivity of two-qubit…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Marouane Benbetka , Merwan Bekkar , Riyadh Baghdadi , Martin Kong

Near-term quantum computers are noisy and have limited connectivity between qubits. Compilers are required to introduce SWAP operations in order to perform two-qubit gates between non-adjacent qubits. SWAPs increase the number of gates and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Poulami Das , Suhas K. Vittal , Moinuddin Qureshi

A variety of photon-mediated operations are critical to the realization of scalable quantum information processing platforms and their accurate characterization is essential for the identification of optimal regimes and their experimental…

A quantum compiler is a critical piece in the quantum computing pipeline since it allows an abstract quantum circuit to be run on a physical quantum computer. One extremely important subproblem in quantum compilation is the generation of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Ankit Kulshrestha , Xiaoyuan Liu

Quantum algorithms need to be compiled to respect the constraints imposed by quantum processors, which is known as the mapping problem. The mapping procedure will result in an increase of the number of gates and of the circuit latency,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Lingling Lao , Hans van Someren , Imran Ashraf , Carmen G. Almudever