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Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology will be available in the near future. Quantum computers with 50-100 qubits may be able to perform tasks which surpass the capabilities of today's classical digital computers, but noise in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 John Preskill

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories, correctly predicting huge class of physical phenomena. Ironically, in spite of all its successes, there is a notorious problem: how does Nature create a ''bridge'' from fragile…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 J. K. Korbicz , P. Horodecki , R. Horodecki

Quantum computers represent a radical technological breakthrough in information processing by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics to solve highly complex problems beyond the reach of classical systems. However, in the current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Marcos Guillermo Lammers , Federico Hernán Holik , Alejandro Fernández

Quantum Darwinism proposes that the proliferation of redundant information plays a major role in the emergence of objectivity out of the quantum world. Is this kind of objectivity necessarily classical? We show that if one takes Spekkens'…

Numerical simulation of quantum systems is crucial to further our understanding of natural phenomena. Many systems of key interest and importance, in areas such as superconducting materials and quantum chemistry, are thought to be described…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-17 Katherine L Brown , William J Munro , Vivien M Kendon

Quantum computing has quickly emerged as a revolutionary paradigm that holds the potential for greatly enhanced computational capability and algorithmic efficiency, in a wide range of areas. Among the various hardware platforms, neutral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Matteo Grotti , Sara Marzella , Gabriella Bettonte , Daniele Ottaviani , Elisa Ercolessi

Testing quantum theory on macroscopic scales is a longstanding challenge that might help to revolutionise physics. For example, laboratory tests (such as those anticipated in nanomechanical or biological systems) may look to rule out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Kunkun Wang , George C. Knee , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Jian Li , Peng Xue

As medium-scale quantum computers progress, the application of quantum algorithms across diverse fields like simulating physical systems, chemistry, optimization, and cryptography becomes more prevalent. However, these quantum computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Purnachandra Mandadapu

Quantum computing (QC) is a new paradigm offering the potential of exponential speedups over classical computing for certain computational problems. Each additional qubit doubles the size of the computational state space available to a QC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Wei Tang , Teague Tomesh , Martin Suchara , Jeffrey Larson , Margaret Martonosi

Decoherence shows how the openness of quantum systems -- interaction with their environment -- suppresses flagrant manifestations of quantumness. Einselection accounts for the emergence of preferred quasi-classical pointer states. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Wojciech Hubert Zurek

How the objective everyday world emerges from the underlying quantum behaviour of its microscopic constituents is an open question at the heart of the foundations of quantum mechanics. Quantum Darwinism and spectrum broadcast structure are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 Thao P. Le , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Quantum computing is of great potential for chemical system simulations. In this study, we propose an efficient protocol of quantum computer based simulation of chemical systems which enables accurate chemical reaction modeling on noisy…

Given the impending timeline of developing good-quality quantum processing units, it is time to rethink the approach to advance quantum computing research. Rather than waiting for quantum hardware technologies to mature, we need to start…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-12 Koen Bertels , Emma Turki , Tamara Sarac , Aritra Sarkar , Imran Ashraf

Quantum computers can exploit a Hilbert space whose dimension increases exponentially with the number of qubits. In experiment, quantum supremacy has recently been achieved by the Google team by using a noisy intermediate-scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Suguru Endo , Zhenyu Cai , Simon C. Benjamin , Xiao Yuan

Simulation of time dynamical physical problems has been a challenge for classical computers due to their time-complexity. To demonstrate the dominance of quantum computers over classical computers in this regime, here we simulate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Prabhat , Bikash K. Behera

Quantum Computing (QC) refers to an emerging paradigm that inherits and builds with the concepts and phenomena of Quantum Mechanic (QM) with the significant potential to unlock a remarkable opportunity to solve complex and computationally…

We have constructed and run a Bell test of local realism focusing on the objectivity criterion. The objectivity means that the outcomes are confirmed macroscopically by a few observers at each party. The IBM Quantum and IonQ devices turn…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Adam Bednorz , Josep Batle , Tomasz Białecki , Jarosław K. Korbicz

The effects of noise are one of the most important factors to consider when it comes to quantum computing in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing (NISQ) era that we are currently in. Therefore, it is important not only to gain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 T. Piskor , M. Schöndorf , M. Bauer , D. Smith , T. Ayral , S. Pogorzalek , A. Auer , M. Papič

The simulation of quantum processes is a key goal for the grand programme aiming at grounding quantum technologies as the way to explore complex phenomena that are inaccessible through standard, classical calculators. Some interesting steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Andrea Chiuri , Chiara Greganti , Laura Mazzola , Mauro Paternostro , Paolo Mataloni

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