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Although classical mechanics and quantum mechanics are separate disciplines, we live in a world where Planck's constant \hbar>0, meaning that the classical and quantum world views must actually {\it coexist}. Traditionally, canonical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 John R. Klauder

We observe that fault-tolerant quantum computers have an optimal advantage over classical computers in approximating solutions to many NP optimization problems. This observation however gives nothing in practice.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Mario Szegedy

We consider implementations of a bipartite unitary on many pairs of unknown input states by local operation and classical communication assisted by shared entanglement. We investigate to what extent the entanglement cost and the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 Eyuri Wakakuwa , Mio Murao

It is shown that, in the absence of nodes and under regularity assumptions, a solution in a finite interval of time of the free Schroedinger equation solves a minimization problem which is a stochastic generalization of the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Laura M. Morato

Most continuous mathematical formulations arising in science and engineering can only be solved numerically and therefore approximately. We shall always assume that we're dealing with a numerical approximation to the solution. There are two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-10 A. Papageorgiou , J. F. Traub

In most communication scenarios, sending a symbol encoded in a quantum state requires spending resources such as energy, which can be quantified by a cost of communication. A standard approach in this context is to quantify the performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Marcin Jarzyna

Variational algorithms have particular relevance for near-term quantum computers but require non-trivial parameter optimisations. Here we propose Analytic Descent: Given that the energy landscape must have a certain simple form in the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Bálint Koczor , Simon C. Benjamin

The extremely fascinating behaviors of the quantum walks of particles, which differ much from the classical counterparts, have attracted many physicists. Here we investigate another interesting part of the quantum walks, that is the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Tian-Li Feng , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Guang-Ming Zhao , Sheng Liu , Guang-Can Guo

Equations of motion for single particle under two proper time model and three proper time model have been proposed and analyzed. The motions of particle are derived from pure classical method but they exhibit the same properties of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 xiaodong Chen

Classical and quantum annealing are two heuristic optimization methods that search for an optimal solution by slowly decreasing thermal or quantum fluctuations. Optimizing annealing schedules is important both for performance and fair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 Daniel Herr , Ethan Brown , Bettina Heim , Mario Könz , Guglielmo Mazzola , Matthias Troyer

The time dependence of one-dimensional quantum mechanical probability densities is presented when the potential in which a particle moves is suddenly changed, called a quench. Quantum quenches are mainly addressed but a comparison with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 K. Schönhammer

Notwithstanding interest and excitement building around quantum computing in the last decades, a concise statement saying where this computing can truly help is still missing. As it is shown in the present paper, equal cost of computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 Arkady Bolotin

Transmission of classical information using quantum objects such as polarized photons is studied. The classical (Shannon) channel capacity and its relation to quantum (von Neumann) channel capacity is investigated for various receiver…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Göran Einarsson

We introduce a novel optimal transport framework for probabilistic circuits (PCs). While it has been shown recently that divergences between distributions represented as certain classes of PCs can be computed tractably, to the best of our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Adrian Ciotinga , YooJung Choi

Given a unitary transformation, what is the size of the smallest quantum circuit that implements it? This quantity, known as the quantum circuit complexity, is a fundamental property of quantum evolutions that has widespread applications in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Lu Li , Kaifeng Bu , Dax Enshan Koh , Arthur Jaffe , Seth Lloyd

A new algorithm for minimization of quantum cost of quantum circuits has been designed. The quantum cost of different quantum circuits of particular interest (eg. circuits for EPR, quantum teleportation, shor code and different quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Anindita Banerjee , Anirban Pathak

In this paper, we review some features of quantum annealing and related topics from viewpoints of statistical physics, condensed matter physics, and computational physics. We can obtain a better solution of optimization problems in many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-23 Shu Tanaka , Ryo Tamura

Quantum annealing (QA) has the potential to significantly improve solution quality and reduce time complexity in solving combinatorial optimization problems compared to classical optimization methods. However, due to the limited number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Seongmin Kim , Sang-Woo Ahn , In-Saeng Suh , Alexander W. Dowling , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

We introduce the concept of a quantum walk with two particles and study it for the case of a discrete time walk on a line. A quantum walk with more than one particle may contain entanglement, thus offering a resource unavailable in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Omar , N. Paunkovic , L. Sheridan , S. Bose

Severe methodological and numerical problems of the traditional quantum mechanical approach to the description of molecular systems are outlined. To overcome these, a simple alternative to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is presented on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Irmgard Frank