English
Related papers

Related papers: On solving classes of positive-definite quantum li…

200 papers

Solving linear systems of equations is a fundamental problem with a wide variety of applications across many fields of science, and there is increasing effort to develop quantum linear solver algorithms. [Suba\c{s}i et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 David Jennings , Matteo Lostaglio , Sam Pallister , Andrew T Sornborger , Yiğit Subaşı

Many nonlinear PDEs have singular or oscillatory solutions or may exhibit physical instabilities or uncertainties. This requires a suitable concept of physically relevant generalized solutions. Dissipative measure-valued solutions have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova , Yuhuan Yuan

The variational principle serves as a fundamental framework for describing equilibrium states of physical systems via the minimization or extremization of an energy-like functional. While quantum algorithms have demonstrated promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Katsuhiro Endo , Kazuaki Z. Takahashi

We investigate quantum algorithms for classification, a fundamental problem in machine learning, with provable guarantees. Given $n$ $d$-dimensional data points, the state-of-the-art (and optimal) classical algorithm for training…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Tongyang Li , Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Xiaodi Wu

We give a quantum algorithm for solving semidefinite programs (SDPs). It has worst-case running time $n^{\frac{1}{2}} m^{\frac{1}{2}} s^2 \text{poly}(\log(n), \log(m), R, r, 1/\delta)$, with $n$ and $s$ the dimension and row-sparsity of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Krysta Svore

We analyze the complexity of quantum state verification in the context of solving systems of linear equations of the form $A \vec x = \vec b$. We show that any quantum operation that verifies whether a given quantum state is within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Rolando D. Somma , Yigit Subasi

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) can be considered the backbone of the modern power system optimization process, with a large application spectrum, from Unit Commitment and Optimal Transmission Switching to verifying Neural Networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Petros Ellinas , Samuel Chevalier , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Solving optimization problems is a key task for which quantum computers could possibly provide a speedup over the best known classical algorithms. Particular classes of optimization problems including semi-definite programming (SDP) and…

Efficiently solving large-scale sparse linear systems poses a significant challenge in computational science, especially in fields such as physics, engineering, machine learning, and finance. Traditional classical algorithms face…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Hakikat Singh

In this paper, we give quantum algorithms for two fundamental computation problems: solving polynomial systems over finite fields and optimization where the arguments of the objective function and constraints take values from a finite field…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Yu-Ao Chen , Xiao-Shan Gao , Chun-Ming Yuan

Quantum computers may achieve speedups over their classical counterparts for solving linear algebra problems. However, in some cases -- such as for low-rank matrices -- dequantized algorithms demonstrate that there cannot be an exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Ashley Montanaro , Changpeng Shao

Quantum linear-system algorithms (QLSAs) have rigorous worst-case complexity guarantees, but their runtimes are often chosen from spectral information assumed in advance. What is largely lacking is an a posteriori progress flag: most QLSA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Xiantao Li

In this work, we design quantum algorithms that are more efficient than classical algorithms to solve time-dependent and finite-horizon Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) in two distinct settings: (1) In the exact dynamics setting, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Bin Luo , Yuwen Huang , Jonathan Allcock , Xiaojun Lin , Shengyu Zhang , John C. S. Lui

The time-marching strategy, which propagates the solution from one time step to the next, is a natural strategy for solving time-dependent differential equations on classical computers, as well as for solving the Hamiltonian simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Di Fang , Lin Lin , Yu Tong

We propose a quantum algorithm to solve systems of nonlinear algebraic equations. In the ideal case the complexity of the algorithm is linear in the number of variables $n$, which means our algorithm's complexity is less than $O(n^{3})$ of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Peng Qian , Wei-Cong Huang , Gui-Lu Long

We introduce a family of identities that express general linear non-unitary evolution operators as a linear combination of unitary evolution operators, each solving a Hamiltonian simulation problem. This formulation can exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Dong An , Andrew M. Childs , Lin Lin

Linear equations play a pivotal role in many areas of science and engineering, making efficient solutions to linear systems highly desirable. The development of quantum algorithms for solving linear systems has been a significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Nhat A. Nghiem

As industrial models and designs grow increasingly complex, the demand for optimal control of large-scale dynamical systems has significantly increased. However, traditional methods for optimal control incur significant overhead as problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Connor Clayton , Jiaqi Leng , Gengzhi Yang , Yi-Ling Qiao , Ming C. Lin , Xiaodi Wu

We introduce a new quantum optimization algorithm for dense Linear Programming problems, which can be seen as the quantization of the Interior Point Predictor-Corrector algorithm \cite{Predictor-Corrector} using a Quantum Linear System…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-15 P. A. M. Casares , M. A. Martin-Delgado

In this paper we provide necessary and sufficient (KKT) conditions for global optimality for a new class of possibly nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) problems, denoted by S-QCQP. The class consists of QCQP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Ewa M. Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola