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Quantum computing is greatly advanced in recent years and is expected to transform the computation paradigm in the near future. Quantum circuit simulation plays a key role in the toolchain for the development of quantum hardware and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yuan-Hung Tsai , Jie-Hong R. Jiang , Chiao-Shan Jhang

A semiclassical simulation approach is presented for studying quantum noise in large-scale photonic circuits incorporating an ideal Kerr nonlinearity. A circuit solver is used to generate matrices defining a set of stochastic differential…

Cycle-accurate simulators are widely used to study systolic accelerators, yet their accuracy and usability are often limited by weak validation against real hardware and poor integration with modern ML compiler stacks. This paper presents…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jingtian Dang , Ritik Raj , Changhai Man , Jianming Tong , Tushar Krishna

Perfect state transfer (PST) through a spin chain can be theoretically obtained via predesigned PST couplings. However, the corresponding experiment on IBM quantum computers demonstrates low transmission success probability (SP) due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Zong-Yuan Ge , Lian-Ao Wu , Zhao-Ming Wang

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…

Using OpenCL-based high-level synthesis, we create a number of spiking neural network (SNN) simulators for the Potjans-Diesmann cortical microcircuit for a high-end Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Our best simulators simulate the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Björn A. Lindqvist , Artur Podobas

The area of quantum circuit simulation has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. However, due to the exponentially increasing computational costs, assessing and validating these models on large datasets poses significant obstacles.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Van Duy Tran , Tuan Hai Vu , Vu Trung Duong Le , Hoai Luan Pham , Yasuhiko Nakashima

Uncertainties have become a major concern in integrated circuit design. In order to avoid the huge number of repeated simulations in conventional Monte Carlo flows, this paper presents an intrusive spectral simulator for statistical circuit…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Zheng Zhang , Tarek A. El-Moselhy , Ibrahim , M. Elfadel , Luca Daniel

Efficient simulation of quantum circuits has become indispensable with the rapid development of quantum hardware. The primary simulation methods are based on state vectors and tensor networks. As the number of qubits and quantum gates grows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Feng Pan , Hanfeng Gu , Lvlin Kuang , Bing Liu , Pan Zhang

Quantum circuit simulators have a long tradition of exploiting massive hardware parallelism. Most of the times, parallelism has been supported by special purpose libraries tailored specifically for the quantum circuits. Quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Oumarou Oumarou , Alexandru Paler , Robert Basmadjian

We present QEst, a procedure to systematically generate approximations for quantum circuits to reduce their CNOT gate count. Our approach employs circuit partitioning for scalability with procedures to 1) reduce circuit length using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Tirthak Patel , Ed Younis , Costin Iancu , Wibe de Jong , Devesh Tiwari

With quantum computers of significant size now on the horizon, we should understand how to best exploit their initially limited abilities. To this end, we aim to identify a practical problem that is beyond the reach of current classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Andrew M. Childs , Dmitri Maslov , Yunseong Nam , Neil J. Ross , Yuan Su

Spin qubits need to operate within a very precise voltage space around charge state transitions to achieve high-fidelity gates. However, the stability diagrams that allow the identification of the desired charge states are long to acquire.…

Strongly correlated quantum systems give rise to many exotic physical phenomena, including high-temperature superconductivity. Simulating these systems on quantum computers may avoid the prohibitively high computational cost incurred in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Frank Arute , Kunal Arya , Ryan Babbush , Dave Bacon , Joseph C. Bardin , Rami Barends , Andreas Bengtsson , Sergio Boixo , Michael Broughton , Bob B. Buckley , David A. Buell , Brian Burkett , Nicholas Bushnell , Yu Chen , Zijun Chen , Yu-An Chen , Ben Chiaro , Roberto Collins , Stephen J. Cotton , William Courtney , Sean Demura , Alan Derk , Andrew Dunsworth , Daniel Eppens , Thomas Eckl , Catherine Erickson , Edward Farhi , Austin Fowler , Brooks Foxen , Craig Gidney , Marissa Giustina , Rob Graff , Jonathan A. Gross , Steve Habegger , Matthew P. Harrigan , Alan Ho , Sabrina Hong , Trent Huang , William Huggins , Lev B. Ioffe , Sergei V. Isakov , Evan Jeffrey , Zhang Jiang , Cody Jones , Dvir Kafri , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Julian Kelly , Seon Kim , Paul V. Klimov , Alexander N. Korotkov , Fedor Kostritsa , David Landhuis , Pavel Laptev , Mike Lindmark , Erik Lucero , Michael Marthaler , Orion Martin , John M. Martinis , Anika Marusczyk , Sam McArdle , Jarrod R. McClean , Trevor McCourt , Matt McEwen , Anthony Megrant , Carlos Mejuto-Zaera , Xiao Mi , Masoud Mohseni , Wojciech Mruczkiewicz , Josh Mutus , Ofer Naaman , Matthew Neeley , Charles Neill , Hartmut Neven , Michael Newman , Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Thomas E. O'Brien , Eric Ostby , Bálint Pató , Andre Petukhov , Harald Putterman , Chris Quintana , Jan-Michael Reiner , Pedram Roushan , Nicholas C. Rubin , Daniel Sank , Kevin J. Satzinger , Vadim Smelyanskiy , Doug Strain , Kevin J. Sung , Peter Schmitteckert , Marco Szalay , Norm M. Tubman , Amit Vainsencher , Theodore White , Nicolas Vogt , Z. Jamie Yao , Ping Yeh , Adam Zalcman , Sebastian Zanker

Characterizing quantum processes is essential for unlocking the potential of quantum devices. However, standard quantum process tomography is resource-intensive and becomes infeasible on large-scale systems. Despite alternative approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Hao Zhan , Zongbo Bao , Zekun Ye , Qianyi Wang , Minghao Mi , Penghui Yao , Lijian Zhang

We introduce QuEST, the Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit, and compare it to ProjectQ, qHipster and a recent distributed implementation of Quantum++. QuEST is the first open source, OpenMP and MPI hybridised, GPU accelerated simulator of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Tyson Jones , Anna Brown , Ian Bush , Simon Benjamin

Quantum computation is a promising emerging technology which, compared to conventional computation, allows for substantial speed-ups e.g. for integer factorization or database search. However, since physical realizations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Alwin Zulehner , Robert Wille

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize multiple fields by solving complex problems that can not be solved in reasonable time with current classical computers. Nevertheless, the development of quantum computers is still in its…

Efficient simulation of quantum computers relies on understanding and exploiting the properties of quantum states. This is the case for methods such as tensor networks, based on entanglement, and the tableau formalism, which represents…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Sergi Masot-Llima , Artur Garcia-Saez

Grover's algorithm is a cornerstone of quantum search algorithm, offering quadratic speedup for unstructured problems. However, limited qubit counts and noise in today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices hinder large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Mei Ian Sam , Tzu-Ling Kuo , Tai-Yue Li