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Quantum computing is advancing rapidly, yet substantial gaps separate today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices from tomorrow's fault-tolerant application-scale quantum (FASQ) machines. We identify four related hurdles along…

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Quantum algorithm design usually assumes access to a perfect quantum computer with ideal properties like full connectivity, noise-freedom and arbitrarily long coherence time. In Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, however, the…

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Quantum kernels hold significant promise for achieving computational advantages in quantum machine learning (QML), yet their effectiveness critically depends on the design of expressive and hardware-compatible feature maps, a challenge that…

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Quantum algorithms on the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are expected to simulate quantum systems that are classically intractable to demonstrate quantum advantages. However, the non-negligible gate error on the NISQ…

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Complex quantum networks are not only hard to establish, but also difficult to simulate due to the exponentially growing state space and noise-induced imperfections. In this work, we propose an alternative approach that leverage quantum…

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Recently, IBM, Google, and Intel showcased quantum computers ranging from 49 to 72 qubits. While these systems represent a significant milestone in the advancement of quantum computing, existing and near-term quantum computers are not yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 Swamit S. Tannu , Moinuddin K. Qureshi

Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices fail to produce outputs with sufficient fidelity for deep circuits with many gates today. Such devices suffer from read-out, multi-qubit gate and crosstalk noise combined with short…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Ellis Wilson , Frank Mueller , Lindsay Bassman , Constin Iancu

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices pave the way to implement quantum algorithms that exhibit supremacy over their classical counterparts. Due to the intrinsic noise and decoherence in the physical system, NISQ computations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Entong He , Yuxiang Yang

This paper introduces a noise-aware distributed Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) tailored for execution on near-term quantum hardware. Leveraging a distributed framework, we address the limitations of current Noisy…

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One of the outstanding challenges in contemporary science and technology is building a quantum computer that is useful in applications. By starting from an estimate of the algorithm success rate, we can explicitly connect gate fidelity to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 R. Barends , F. K. Wilhelm

Noise and imperfections are among the prevalent challenges in quantum software engineering for current NISQ systems. They will remain important in the post-NISQ area, as logical, error-corrected qubits will be based on software mechanisms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Stefan Raimund Maschek , Jürgen Schwitalla , Maja Franz , Wolfgang Mauerer

Today's Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers support only limited sets of available quantum gates and restricted connectivity. Therefore, quantum algorithms must be transpiled in order to become executable on a given NISQ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Yanjun Ji , Sebastian Brandhofer , Ilia Polian

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices offer unique platforms to test and evaluate the behavior of non-fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, validating programs on NISQ devices is difficult due to fluctuations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Megan L. Dahlhauser , Travis S. Humble

The rapid progress of physical implementation of quantum computers paved the way for the design of tools to help users write quantum programs for any given quantum device. The physical constraints inherent in current NISQ architectures…

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Improvements to the functionality of modern Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers have coincided with an increase in the total number of physical qubits. Quantum programmers do not commonly design circuits that directly utilize…

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Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers, despite their limitations, present opportunities for near-term quantum advantages in Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (NHEP) when paired with specially designed quantum algorithms and…

Quantum computing offers unparalleled computational capabilities but faces significant challenges, including limited qubit counts, diverse hardware topologies, and dynamic noise/error rates, which hinder scalability and reliability.…

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The rapid progress of physical implementation of quantum computers paved the way of realising the design of tools to help users write quantum programs for any given quantum devices. The physical constraints inherent to the current NISQ…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Chi Zhang , Yanhao Chen , Yuwei Jin , Wonsun Ahn , Youtao Zhang , Eddy Z. Zhang

Running quantum programs is fraught with challenges on on today's noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Many of these challenges originate from the error characteristics that stem from rapid decoherence and noise during…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Ellis Wilson , Sudhakar Singh , Frank Mueller