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In the era of noisy-intermediate-scale quantum computers, we expect to see quantum devices with increasing numbers of qubits emerge in the foreseeable future. To practically run quantum programs, logical qubits have to be mapped to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Will Finigan , Michael Cubeddu , Thomas Lively , Johannes Flick , Prineha Narang

Using a specially constructed set of hard 2-SAT problems with four satisfying assignments, we study the scaling and sampling performance of numerical simulation of quantum annealing as well as that of the physical quantum annealers offered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Vrinda Mehta , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen , Fengping Jin

Modern quantum annealers can find high-quality solutions to combinatorial optimisation objectives given as quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation (QUBO) problems. Unfortunately, obtaining suitable QUBO forms in computer vision remains…

Quantum chemistry is regarded to be one of the first disciplines that will be revolutionized by quantum computing. Although universal quantum computers of practical scale may be years away, various approaches are currently being pursued to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Alexander Teplukhin , Brian K. Kendrick , Sergei Tretiak , Pavel A. Dub

Despite rapid recent progress towards the development of quantum computers capable of providing computational advantages over classical computers, it seems likely that such computers will, initially at least, be required to run in a hybrid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Richard Hua

Recent advances bring within reach the viability of solving combinatorial problems using a quantum annealing algorithm implemented on a purpose-built platform that exploits quantum properties. However, the question of how to tune the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Andrew D. King , Catherine C. McGeoch

Quantum technology is maturing to the point where quantum devices, such as quantum communication systems, quantum random number generators and quantum simulators, may be built with capabilities exceeding classical computers. A quantum…

We explore the applicability of quantum annealing to the approximation task of curve fitting. To this end, we consider a function that shall approximate a given set of data points and is written as a finite linear combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Philipp Isserstedt , Daniel Jaroszewski , Wolfgang Mergenthaler , Felix Paul , Bastian Harrach

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

Quantum annealers like those from D-Wave Systems implement adiabatic quantum computing to solve optimization problems, but their analog nature and limited control functionalities present challenges to correcting or mitigating errors. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Hristo N. Djidjev

Recent advancements in quantum computing suggest the potential to revolutionize computational algorithms across various scientific domains including oceanography and atmospheric science. The field is still relatively young and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Takuro Matsuta , Ryo Furue

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…

This paper proposes a quantum computing-based algorithm to solve the single image super-resolution (SISR) problem. One of the well-known classical approaches for SISR relies on the well-established patch-wise sparse modeling of the problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Han Yao Choong , Suryansh Kumar , Luc Van Gool

Several combinatorial optimization problems can be solved with NISQ devices once that a corresponding quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) form is derived. The aim of this work is to drastically reduce the variables needed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Dario De Santis , Salvatore Tirone , Stefano Marmi , Vittorio Giovannetti

The recent availability of quantum annealers has fueled a new area of information technology where such devices are applied to address practically motivated and computationally difficult problems with hardware that exploits quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Ilaria Siloi , Virginia Carnevali , Bibek Pokharel , Marco Fornari , Rosa Di Felice

Optimizing the training of a machine learning pipeline helps in reducing training costs and improving model performance. One such optimizing strategy is quantum annealing, which is an emerging computing paradigm that has shown potential in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Rajdeep Kumar Nath , Himanshu Thapliyal , Travis S. Humble

Quantum annealing has shown significant potential as an approach to near-term quantum computing. Despite promising progress towards obtaining a quantum speedup, quantum annealers are limited by the need to embed problem instances within the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Richard Hua

This tutorial offers a quick, hands-on introduction to solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) models on currently available quantum computers and their simulators. We cover both IBM and D-Wave machines: IBM utilizes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Arul Mazumder , Sridhar Tayur

Adiabatic quantum programming defines the time-dependent mapping of a quantum algorithm into an underlying hardware or logical fabric. An essential step is embedding problem-specific information into the quantum logical fabric. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 Christine Klymko , Blair D. Sullivan , Travis S. Humble

Quantum annealing has emerged as a powerful tool for solving combinatorial optimization problems efficiently, making use of the principles of quantum mechanics. Companies are increasingly investing in the market of quantum computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Lorenzo Mazzei , Giada Beccari , Mirko Laruina , Marco Cococcioni