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Recently, quantum computing has gained attention in urban studies as a tool for complex transport planning problems, but its role remains unclear. This paper reviews quantum computing research in urban transport planning and highlights…

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We propose and compare Constraint Programming (CP) and Quantum Annealing (QA) approaches for rolling stock assignment optimisation considering necessary maintenance tasks. In the CP approach, we model the problem with an Alldifferent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Patricia Bickert , Cristian Grozea , Ronny Hans , Matthias Koch , Christina Riehn , Armin Wolf

Prediction of financial crashes in a complex financial network is known to be an NP-hard problem, which means that no known algorithm can guarantee to find optimal solutions efficiently. We experimentally explore a novel approach to this…

This paper provides an in-depth review of the evolving role of quantum computing in the financial sector, emphasizing both its computational potential and cybersecurity implications. Distinguishing itself from existing surveys, this work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Gerhard Hellstern , Esra Yeniaras

Many quantum algorithms make use of oracles which evaluate classical functions on a superposition of inputs. In order to facilitate implementation, testing, and resource estimation of such algorithms, we present quantum circuits for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-01 Thomas Häner , Martin Roetteler , Krysta M. Svore

This effort examines the intersection of the emerging field of quantum computing and the more established field of evolutionary computation. The goal is to understand what benefits quantum computing might offer to computational intelligence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Donald A. Sofge

Real-world optimization problems must undergo a series of transformations before becoming solvable on current quantum hardware. Even for a fixed problem, the number of possible transformation paths -- from industry-relevant formulations…

Quantum optimal control is a technique for controlling the evolution of a quantum system and has been applied to a wide range of problems in quantum physics. We study a binary quantum control optimization problem, where control decisions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

The performance of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm is evaluated by using three different measures: the probability of finding the ground state, the energy expectation value, and a ratio closely related to the approximation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Madita Willsch , Dennis Willsch , Fengping Jin , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen

We develop and implement automated methods for optimizing quantum circuits of the size and type expected in quantum computations that outperform classical computers. We show how to handle continuous gate parameters and report a collection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-04 Yunseong Nam , Neil J. Ross , Yuan Su , Andrew M. Childs , Dmitri Maslov

This paper aims to implement and evaluate the performance of quantum computing on solving combinatorial optimization problems arising from the operations of the power grid. To this end, we construct a novel mixed integer conic programming…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Phuong Ngo , Christan Thomas , Hieu Nguyen , Abdullah Eroglu , Konstantinos Oikonomou

In the rapidly evolving field of quantum computing, tensor networks serve as an important tool due to their multifaceted utility. In this paper, we review the diverse applications of tensor networks and show that they are an important…

Quantum optimization algorithms promise advantages for difficult problems but are costly to simulate and analyze on classical machines. Recently, constrained quantum optimization has been investigated through the lens of Quantum Zeno…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Max Tschaikowski , Andrea Vandin

Despite extensive research efforts, few quantum algorithms for classical optimization demonstrate realizable quantum advantage. The utility of many quantum algorithms is limited by high requisite circuit depth and nonconvex optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Taylor L. Patti , Jean Kossaifi , Anima Anandkumar , Susanne F. Yelin

The escalating impacts of climate change and the increasing demand for sustainable development and natural resource management necessitate innovative technological solutions. Quantum computing (QC) has emerged as a promising tool with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Kin Tung Michael Ho , Kuan-Cheng Chen , Lily Lee , Felix Burt , Shang Yu , Po-Heng , Lee

This tutorial paper introduces quantum approaches to Monte Carlo computation with applications in computational finance. We outline the basics of quantum computing using Grover's algorithm for unstructured search to build intuition. We then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Jose Blanchet , Mark S. Squillante , Mario Szegedy , Guanyang Wang

We present a detailed study of portfolio optimization using different versions of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). For a given list of assets, the portfolio optimization problem is formulated as quadratic binary…

Clinical trials are pivotal in the drug discovery process to determine the safety and efficacy of a drug candidate. The high failure rates of these trials are attributed to deficiencies in clinical model development and protocol design.…

Quantum algorithms can deliver asymptotic speedups over their classical counterparts. However, there are few cases where a substantial quantum speedup has been worked out in detail for reasonably-sized problems, when compared with the best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Earl Campbell , Ankur Khurana , Ashley Montanaro

In recent years, quantum computing has drawn significant interest within the field of high-energy physics. We explore the potential of quantum algorithms to resolve the combinatorial problems in particle physics experiments. As a concrete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Jacob L. Scott , Zhongtian Dong , Taejoon Kim , Kyoungchul Kong , Myeonghun Park