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Quantum walk is a key operation in quantum computing, simulation, communication and information. Here, we report for the first time the demonstration of quantum walks and localized quantum walks in a new type of optical fibers having a ring…

Machine learning advances chemistry and materials science by enabling large-scale exploration of chemical space based on quantum chemical calculations. While these models supply fast and accurate predictions of atomistic chemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 K. T. Schütt , M. Gastegger , A. Tkatchenko , K. -R. Müller , R. J. Maurer

Advancements in the implementation of quantum hardware have enabled the acquisition of data that are intractable for emulation with classical computers. The integration of classical machine learning (ML) algorithms with these data holds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Gyungmin Cho , Dohun Kim

Despite considerable progress, ab initio protein structure prediction remains suboptimal. A crowdsourcing approach is the online puzzle video game Foldit, that provided several useful results that matched or even outperformed…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-09 Dimitra N. Panou , Martin Reczko

Owing to the computational complexity of electronic structure algorithms running on classical digital computers, the range of molecular systems amenable to simulation remains tightly circumscribed even after many decades of work. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexis Ralli , Michael I. Williams , Peter V. Coveney

Protein structure prediction is pivotal for understanding the structure-function relationship of proteins, advancing biological research, and facilitating pharmaceutical development and experimental design. While deep learning methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kaihui Cheng , Ce Liu , Qingkun Su , Jun Wang , Liwei Zhang , Yining Tang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Yuan Qi

Quantum machine learning (QML) is rapidly transitioning from theoretical promise to practical relevance across data-intensive scientific domains. In this Review, we provide a structured overview of recent advances that bridge foundational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Vinit Singh , Amandeep Singh Bhatia , Mandeep Kaur Saggi , Manas Sajjan , Sabre Kais

The biological functions of proteins often depend on dynamic structural ensembles. In this work, we develop a flow-based generative modeling approach for learning and sampling the conformational landscapes of proteins. We repurpose highly…

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Recent advancements in quantum technologies have opened new horizons for exploring the physical world in ways once deemed impossible. Central to these breakthroughs is the concept of quantum advantage, where quantum systems outperform their…

Quantum walks, the quantum mechanical counterpart of classical random walks, is an advanced tool for building quantum algorithms that has been recently shown to constitute a universal model of quantum computation. Quantum walks is now a…

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In this paper, we propose QWalkVec, a quantum walk-based node embedding method. A quantum walk is a quantum version of a random walk that demonstrates a faster propagation than a random walk on a graph. We focus on the fact that the effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Rei Sato , Shuichiro Haruta , Kazuhiro Saito , Mori Kurokawa

Molecular docking is a critical computational method in drug discovery used to predict the binding conformation and orientation of a ligand within a protein's binding site. Mapping this challenge onto a graph-based problem, specifically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Mathieu Garrigues , Victor Onofre , Wesley Coelho , S. Acheche

With rapid advancements in machine learning, first-order algorithms have emerged as the backbone of modern optimization techniques, owing to their computational efficiency and low memory requirements. Recently, the connection between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Jiaqi Leng , Bin Shi

We introduce Qlustering, a quantum-inspired algorithm for unsupervised learning that leverages network-based quantum transport to perform data clustering. In contrast to traditional distance-based methods, Qlustering treats the steady-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Shmuel Lorber , Yonatan Dubi

With small-scale quantum processors transitioning from experimental physics labs to industrial products, these processors allow us to efficiently compute important algorithms in various fields. In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Aritra Sarkar , Zaid Al-Ars , Carmen G. Almudever , Koen Bertels

Partial differential equations frequently appear in the natural sciences and related disciplines. Solving them is often challenging, particularly in high dimensions, due to the "curse of dimensionality". In this work, we explore the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Lukas Mouton , Florentin Reiter , Ying Chen , Patrick Rebentrost

Quantum heuristics have shown promise in solving various optimization problems, including lattice protein folding. Equally relevant is the inverse problem, protein design, where one seeks sequences that fold to a given target structure. The…

Gradient descent is a fundamental algorithm in both theory and practice for continuous optimization. Identifying its quantum counterpart would be appealing to both theoretical and practical quantum applications. A conventional approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Ethan Hickman , Joseph Li , Xiaodi Wu

Predicting the docking between proteins and ligands is a crucial and challenging task for drug discovery. However, traditional docking methods mainly rely on scoring functions, and deep learning-based docking approaches usually neglect the…

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