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With the advent of quantum computers, researchers are exploring if quantum mechanics can be leveraged to solve important problems in ways that may provide advantages not possible with conventional or classical methods. A previous work by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Ajinkya Borle , Samuel J. Lomonaco

Combinatorial optimization is anticipated to be one of the primary use cases for quantum computation in the coming years. The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and Quantum Annealing (QA) can potentially demonstrate…

This tutorial offers a quick, hands-on introduction to solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) models on currently available quantum computers and their simulators. We cover both IBM and D-Wave machines: IBM utilizes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Arul Mazumder , Sridhar Tayur

Quantum annealing provides a promising route for the development of quantum optimization devices, but the usefulness of such devices will be limited in part by the range of implementable problems as dictated by hardware constraints. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Walter Vinci , Tameem Albash , Gerardo Paz-Silva , Itay Hen , Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum computing has the potential for disruptive change in many sectors of industry, especially in materials science and optimization. In this paper, we describe how the Turbine Balancing Problem can be solved with quantum computing,…

We introduce a novel approach to translate arbitrary 3-SAT instances to Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) as they are used by quantum annealing (QA) or the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). Our approach…

Quantum annealing is a heuristic quantum optimization algorithm that can be used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In recent years, advances in quantum technologies have enabled the development of small- and intermediate-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Sheir Yarkoni , Elena Raponi , Thomas Bäck , Sebastian Schmitt

We present a novel formulation of structural design optimization problems specifically tailored to be solved by quantum annealing (QA). Structural design optimization aims to find the best, i.e., material-efficient yet high-performance,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Fabian Key , Lukas Freinberger

Quantum annealing is a powerful tool for solving and approximating combinatorial optimization problems such as graph partitioning, community detection, centrality, routing problems, and more. In this paper we explore the use of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Joel E. Pion , Susan M. Mniszewski

Quantum annealing offers a novel approach to finding the optimal solutions for a variety of computational problems, where the quantum annealing controls influence the observed performance and error mechanisms by tuning the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Erica Grant , Travis Humble , Benjamin Stump

Benchmarking Quantum Process Units (QPU) at an application level usually requires considering the whole programming stack of the quantum computer. One critical task is the minor-embedding (resp. transpilation) step, which involves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Valentin Gilbert , Julien Rodriguez , Stéphane Louise

Combinatorial optimization problems are typically formulated using Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO), where constraints are enforced through penalty terms that introduce auxiliary variables and rapidly increase Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Shashank Sanjay Bhat , Peiyong Wang , Joseph West , Udaya Parampalli

Quantum annealing is a promising technique which leverages quantum mechanics to solve hard optimization problems. Considerable progress has been made in the development of a physical quantum annealer, motivating the study of methods to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Maritza Hernandez , Maliheh Aramon

In this work, we develop a new quantum algorithm to solve a combinatorial problem with significant practical relevance occurring in clutch manufacturing. It is demonstrated how quantum optimization can play a role in real industrial…

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) is a field of operations research that is attracting growing interest due to the recent availability of quantum hardware targeted at solving QUBO problems. However, practical adoption is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Lodovica Marchesi , Amal Nasharti , Michele Marchesi

Quantum computing has long promised to revolutionize the way we solve complex problems. At the same time, tensor networks are widely used across various fields due to their computational efficiency and capacity to represent intricate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Miquel Albertí Binimelis

In this work we investigate the capabilities of a hybrid quantum-classical procedure to explore the solution space using the D-Wave $2000Q^{TM}$ Quantum Annealer device. Here we study the ability of the Quantum hardware to solve the Number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Luca Asproni , Davide Caputo , Blanca Silva , Giovanni Fazzi , Marco Magagnini

We demonstrate that the performance of a quantum annealer on hard random Ising optimization problems can be substantially improved using quantum annealing correction (QAC). Our error correction strategy is tailored to the D-Wave Two device.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 Kristen L. Pudenz , Tameem Albash , Daniel A. Lidar

In this paper, we study the problem of digital pre/post-coding design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with 1-bit resolution per complex dimension. The optimal solution that maximizes the received signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Ioannis Krikidis

Solving linear systems of equations is an important problem in science and engineering. Many quantum algorithms, such as the Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd (HHL) algorithm (for quantum-gate computers) and the box algorithm (for quantum-annealing…

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