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Quantum annealing is a proposed combinatorial optimization technique meant to exploit quantum mechanical effects such as tunneling and entanglement. Real-world quantum annealing-based solvers require a combination of annealing and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-30 Kenneth M. Zick , Omar Shehab , Matthew French

There is growing interest in solving computer vision problems such as mesh or point set alignment using Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC). Unfortunately, modern experimental AQC devices such as D-Wave only support Quadratic Unconstrained…

Quantum annealing is a heuristic optimization algorithm that exploits quantum evolution to approximately find lowest energy states. Quantum annealers have scaled up in recent years to tackle increasingly larger and more highly connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Humberto Munoz Bauza , Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum annealing is a promising approach for solving combinatorial optimization problems. However, its performance is often limited by the overhead of additional qubits required for embedding logical QUBO models onto quantum annealers.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Kohei Suda , Soshun Naito , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Combinatorial optimization problems are typically formulated using Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO), where constraints are enforced through penalty terms that introduce auxiliary variables and rapidly increase Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Shashank Sanjay Bhat , Peiyong Wang , Joseph West , Udaya Parampalli

I present a novel use of quantum annealing to solve the Set Splitting Problem using (QUBO) problem formulation. The contribution of the work is in formulating penalty functions that ensure the ground state of the QUBO Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Sean Borneman

A central goal in quantum computing is the development of quantum hardware and quantum algorithms in order to analyse challenging scientific and engineering problems. Research in quantum computation involves contributions from both physics…

We propose a new method for solving binary optimization problems under inequality constraints using a quantum annealer. To deal with inequality constraints, we often use slack variables, as in previous approaches. When we use slack…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Kouki Yonaga , Masamichi J. Miyama , Masayuki Ohzeki

In the evaluation of quantum annealers, metrics based on ground state success rates have two major drawbacks. First, evaluation requires computation time for both quantum and classical processors that grows exponentially with problem size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 James King , Sheir Yarkoni , Mayssam M. Nevisi , Jeremy P. Hilton , Catherine C. McGeoch

The Traveling Salesman Problem is a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that has been extensively studied in operations research. A major challenge in Traveling Salesman Problem formulations is the large number of subtour…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Alessia Ciacco , Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese , Francesca Guerriero

In this work, we develop a new quantum algorithm to solve a combinatorial problem with significant practical relevance occurring in clutch manufacturing. It is demonstrated how quantum optimization can play a role in real industrial…

An explicit algorithm for calculating the optimized Euler angles for both qubit state transfer and gate engineering given two arbitary fixed Hamiltonians is presented. It is shown how the algorithm enables us to efficiently implement single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 K. Ch. Chatzisavvas , G. Chadzitaskos , C. Daskaloyannis , S. G. Schirmer

With the rapid development of airlines, airports today become much busier and more complicated than previous days. During airlines daily operations, assigning the available gates to the arriving aircrafts based on the fixed schedule is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-17 Chendong Li

We study the application of emerging photonic and quantum computing architectures to solving the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), a well-known NP-hard optimization problem. We investigate several approaches: Simulated Annealing (SA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Venkat Padmasola , Zhaotong Li , Rupak Chatterjee , Wesley Dyk

Factorization Machine (FM) is the most commonly used model to build a recommendation system since it can incorporate side information to improve performance. However, producing item suggestions for a given user with a trained FM is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Chen-Yu Liu , Hsin-Yu Wang , Pei-Yen Liao , Ching-Jui Lai , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Quantum annealing provides a promising route for the development of quantum optimization devices, but the usefulness of such devices will be limited in part by the range of implementable problems as dictated by hardware constraints. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Walter Vinci , Tameem Albash , Gerardo Paz-Silva , Itay Hen , Daniel A. Lidar

With progress in quantum technology more sophisticated quantum annealing devices are becoming available. While they offer new possibilities for solving optimization problems, their true potential is still an open question. As the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Bettina Heim , Ethan W. Brown , Dave Wecker , Matthias Troyer

Adiabatic quantum computing has evolved in recent years from a theoretical field into an immensely practical area, a change partially sparked by D-Wave System's quantum annealing hardware. These multimillion-dollar quantum annealers offer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 Timothy D. Goodrich , Travis S. Humble , Blair D. Sullivan

Recent efforts in smart manufacturing have enhanced aerospace fuselage assembly processes, particularly by innovating shape adjustment techniques to minimize dimensional gaps between assembled sections. Existing approaches have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiayu Liu , Chong Liu , Trevor Rhone , Yinan Wang

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) transforms a simple many-qubit wavefunction into one which encodes a solution to a difficult classical optimization problem. It does this by optimizing the schedule according to which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Yunlong Yu , Chenfeng Cao , Carter Dewey , Xiang-Bin Wang , Nic Shannon , Robert Joynt