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Hybrid digitized-counterdiabatic quantum computing (DCQC) is a promising approach for leveraging the capabilities of near-term quantum computers, utilizing parameterized quantum circuits designed with counterdiabatic protocols. However, the…

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The bin packing problem, a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization challenge, has emerged as a promising candidate for quantum computing applications. In this work, we address the one-dimensional bin packing problem (1dBPP) using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ruoqian Xu , Sebastián V. Romero , Jialiang Tang , Yue Ban , Xi Chen

Codesign, an integral part of computer architecture referring to the information interaction in hardware-software stack, is able to boost the algorithm mapping and execution in the computer hardware. This well applies to the noisy…

Coherent control of complex many-body systems is critical to the development of useful quantum devices. Fast perfect state transfer can be exactly achieved through additional counterdiabatic fields. We show that the additional energetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Eoin Carolan , Anthony Kiely , Steve Campbell

Quantum heat engines (QHEs) have attracted long-standing scientific interest, especially inspired by considerations of the interplay between heat and work with the quantization of energy levels, quantum superposition, and entanglement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Tuomas Uusnäkki , Timm Mörstedt , Wallace Teixeira , Miika Rasola , Mikko Möttönen

The preparation of ground states of spin systems is a fundamental operation in quantum computing and serves as the basis of adiabatic quantum computing. This form of quantum computation is subject to the adiabatic theorem which in turn…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Andreas Hartmann , Glen Bigan Mbeng , Wolfgang Lechner

The operation of a quantum heat engine in finite time generally faces a trade-off between efficiency and power. Using shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA), this trade off can be avoided to engineer thermal machines that operate at maximum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Adolfo del Campo , Aurélia Chenu , Shujin Deng , Haibin Wu

Algorithmic cooling shows that it is possible to locally reduce the entropy of a qubit belonging to an isolated ensemble such as nuclear spins in molecules or nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds. In the same physical setting, we introduce…

Finite-time quantum heat engines (QHEs) typically extract less work than their quasistatic counterparts because fast driving generates coherences and non-adiabatic transitions during the work strokes, a phenomenon commonly referred to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Selma Memić , Rafael Wagner , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Quantum thermal machines offer promising platforms for exploring the fundamental limits of thermodynamics at the microscopic scale. The previous study demonstrated that the incorporation of a catalyst can significantly enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Cong Fu , Ousi Pan , Zhiqiang Fan , Yushun Tang , Shanhe Su , Youhui Lin , Jincan Chen

Quantum information processing requires fast manipulations of quantum systems in order to overcome dissipative effects. We propose a method to accelerate quantum dynamics and obtain a target state in a shorter time relative to unmodified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Shumpei Masuda , Jacob Koenig , Gary A. Steele

We introduce a method for solving combinatorial optimization problems on digital quantum computers, where we incorporate auxiliary counterdiabatic (CD) terms into the adiabatic Hamiltonian, while integrating bias terms derived from an…

Nowadays, quantum batteries (QBs) have been designed to outperform their classical counterparts by leveraging quantum advantages. For instance, the charging power greatly benefits from the entanglement generation of a collective charging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Guohui Dong , Mengqi Yu , Yao Yao

For a class of integrable quantum many-body systems, symmetric AC driving can generically produce a steady DC response. We show how such dynamical freezing can be switched off, not by forcing the system to follow the (arbitrarily fast)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-02 Arnab Das , R. Moessner

An open fully connected system of qubits at nonzero temperature is driven within a finite time interval along various paths in the space of its control parameters. The driving leads across finite-size precursors of first- and second-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Felipe Matus , Pavel Cejnar

A quantum system which can store energy, and from which one can extract useful work, is known as a quantum battery. Such a device raises interesting issues surrounding how quantum physics can provide certain advantages in the charging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

We present a detailed study of an adiabatic state preparation in an effective three-level quantum system. States can be prepared with high speed and fidelity by adding a counterdiabatic (CD) quantum control protocol. As a second step, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 L. Romanato , N. Eshaqi-Sani , L. Lepori , T. Kirova , E. Arimondo , S. Wimberger

We consider a quantum Otto-type heat engine constructed in an optomechanical system with which the cavity is chosen as the working substance. The cavity can effectively be coupled with hot thermal baths in nonequilibrium steady-states via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Zhen-Yang Peng , Ying-Dan Wang

We investigate a mechanism for extracting heat from metallic conductors based on the energy-selective transmission of electrons through a spatially asymmetric resonant structure subject to ac driving. This quantum refrigerator can operate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-06 Miguel Rey , Michael Strass , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hänggi , Fernando Sols

The Dicke-Hubbard model, describing an ensemble of interacting atoms in a cavity, provides a rich platform for exploring collective quantum phenomena. However, its potential for quantum thermodynamic applications remains largely uncharted.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-03 He-Guang Xu , Shujie Cheng