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Quantum computers are inherently affected by noise. While in the long-term error correction codes will account for noise at the cost of increasing physical qubits, in the near-term the performance of any quantum algorithm should be tested…

We investigate (a) spontaneous Raman scattering of classical signals in long optical fiber links leading to significant Raman noise in quantum channels propagating in the same fiber and (b) impact of chromatic dispersion on the performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Michal Mlejnek , Nikolay A. Kaliteevskiy , Dan A. Nolan

We address the use of entangled qubits as quantum probes to characterize the noise induced by complex environments. In particular, we show that a joint measurement on entangled probes can improve estimation of the correlation time for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

As quantum error corrections still cannot be realized physically, quantum noise is the most profound obstacle to the implementations of large-scale quantum algorithms or quantum schemes. It has been well-known that if a quantum computer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Weixiao Sun , Fuchuan Wei , Yuguo Shao , Zhaohui Wei

The scalability of quantum networking will benefit from quantum and classical communications coexisting in shared fibers, the main challenge being spontaneous Raman scattering noise. We investigate the coexistence of multi-channel O-band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Jordan M. Thomas , Gregory S. Kanter , Prem Kumar

The study of noise assisted transport in quantum systems is essential in a wide range of applications from near-term NISQ devices to models for quantum biology. Here, we study a generalised XXZ model in the presence of stochastic collision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Alessandro Civolani , Vittoria Stanzione , Maria Luisa Chiofalo , Jorge Yago Malo

The paradigm of quantum metrology and sensing aims to identify a quantum advantage in precision at a fixed energy of the probe state. However, in practice, employing high-energy classical probes is often simpler than leveraging the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Giuseppe Ortolano , Ivano Ruo-Berchera , Leonardo Banchi

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are promising tools for demonstrating quantum utility on near-term quantum hardware, with applications in optimisation, quantum simulation, and machine learning. While researchers have studied how easy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Connor van Rossum , Sally Shrapnel , Riddhi Gupta

The quantum-classical hybrid algorithm is an algorithm that holds promise in demonstrating the quantum advantage in NISQ devices. When running such algorithms, effects from quantum noise are inevitable. In our work, we consider a well-known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Cheng Xue , Zhao-Yun Chen , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

We compare the performance of randomized classical and quantum neural networks (NNs) as well as classical and quantum-classical hybrid convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the task of supervised binary image classification. We keep the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Daniel Basilewitsch , João F. Bravo , Christian Tutschku , Frederick Struckmeier

Variational hybrid quantum-classical optimization represents one of the most promising avenue to show the advantage of nowadays noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers in solving hard problems, such as finding the minimum-energy state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Laura Gentini , Alessandro Cuccoli , Stefano Pirandola , Paola Verrucchi , Leonardo Banchi

Quantum-cryptography key distribution (QCKD) experiments have been recently reported using polarization-entangled photons. However, in any practical realization, quantum systems suffer from either unwanted or induced interactions with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Castelletto , I. P. Degiovanni , M. L. Rastello

With rapid advances in quantum hardware, a central question is whether quantum devices with or without full error correction can outperform classical computers on practically relevant problems. Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Adelina Bärligea , Benedikt Poggel , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

While quantum computing can accomplish tasks that are classically intractable, the presence of noise may destroy this advantage in the absence of fault tolerance. In this work, we present a classical algorithm that runs in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yifan F. Zhang , Su-un Lee , Liang Jiang , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

I show that incoherent dynamics can lead to metrological advantages in quantum sensing. The results rely on the fact that incoherent dynamics lead to an additive contribution to the quantum Fisher information about time. Such an additive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Luis Pedro García-Pintos

Due to the difficulties of implementing joint measurements, quantum illumination schemes that are based on signal-idler entanglement are difficult to implement in practice. For this reason, one may consider quantum-inspired designs of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Gaetana Spedalieri , Stefano Pirandola

We review the recent quantum advantage experiments by IBM, D-Wave, and Google, focusing on cases where efficient classical simulations of the experiment were demonstrated or attempted using tensor network methods. We assess the strengths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Augustine Kshetrimayum , Saeed S. Jahromi , Sukhbinder Singh , Román Orús

Quantum error correcting codes have been shown to have the ability of making quantum information resilient against noise. Here we show that we can use quantum error correcting codes as diagnostics to characterise noise. The experiment is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Laforest , D. Simon , J. -C. Boileau , J. Baugh , M. Ditty , R. Laflamme

We employ the concepts of local quantum uncertainty and geometric quantum discord based on the trace norm to investigate the environmental effects on quantum correlations of two bipartite quantum systems. The first one concerns a two-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Abdallah Slaoui , Mohammed Daoud , Rachid Ahl Laamara

Simulating the quantum dynamics of molecules in the condensed phase represents a longstanding challenge in chemistry. Trapped-ion quantum systems may serve as a platform for the analog-quantum simulation of chemical dynamics that is beyond…