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Unwanted interaction between a quantum system and its fluctuating environment leads to decoherence and is the primary obstacle to establishing a scalable quantum information processing architecture. Strategies such as environmental and…

In this paper, we examine disorder (i.e. static imperfections in manufacture) for the fixed-Hamiltonian evolution protocol of quantum state transfer. We improve the performance by optimising the choice of Hamiltonian, and by implementing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Catherine Keele , Alastair Kay

Achieving noise resilience is an outstanding challenge in Hamiltonian-based quantum computation. To this end, energy-gap protection provides a promising approach, where the desired quantum dynamics are encoded into the ground space of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Yingkang Cao , Suying Liu , Haowei Deng , Zihan Xia , Xiaodi Wu , Yu-Xin Wang

We present an encoding and hardware-independent formulation of optimization problems for quantum computing. Using this generalized approach, we present an extensive library of optimization problems and their various derived spin encodings.…

We show how to implement quantum computation on a system with an intrinsic Hamiltonian by controlling a limited subset of spins. Our primary result is an efficient control sequence on a nearest-neighbor XY spin chain through control of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-27 Alastair Kay , Peter J. Pemberton-Ross

The use of noise-robust qubit encodings provides a way of extending the lifetime of quantum information at the hardware level. In this work, we introduce the spin Kerr-cat encoding, which leverages a clock transition in the spectrum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Z. M. McIntyre , Daniel Loss

Previous studies in quantum information have recognized that specific types of noise can encode information in certain applications. However, the role of noise in Quantum Hypothesis Testing (QHT), traditionally assumed to undermine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Qing Li , Lingna Wang , Min Jiang , Ze Wu , Haidong Yuan , Xinhua Peng

Noise in contemporary quantum hardware is highly non-uniform across qubits and couplers, giving rise to localized low-noise "islands" within otherwise noisy device topologies. As quantum workloads scale, executions are increasingly forced…

Simulating open quantum systems on quantum computers presents a fundamental challenge: open quantum dynamics are intrinsically nonunitary, whereas quantum computers operate through unitary evolution. Conventional approaches overcome this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Sameer Dambal , Akira Sone , Yu Zhang

Many optimally scaling quantum simulation algorithms employ controlled time evolution of the Hamiltonian, which is typically the major bottleneck for their efficient implementation. This work establishes a compression protocol for encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Erenay Karacan

Variational quantum algorithms are promising candidates for delivering practical quantum advantage on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. However, optimizing the noisy cost functions associated with these algorithms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Andy C. Y. Li , Imanol Hernandez

Shuttling of spin qubits between different locations is a key element in many prospective semiconductor systems for quantum information processing, but the shuttled qubits should be protected from decoherence created by time- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yu-Ning Zhang , Aleksandr S. Mokeev , Viatcheslav V. Dobrovitski

In the current quantum computing paradigm, significant focus is placed on the reduction or mitigation of quantum decoherence. When designing new quantum processing units, the general objective is to reduce the amount of noise qubits are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Viacheslav Kuzmin , Wilfrid Somogyi , Ekaterina Pankovets , Alexey Melnikov

As the size of quantum hardware progressively increases, the conjectured computational advantages of quantum technologies tend to be threatened by noise, which randomly corrupts the design of quantum logical gates. Several methods already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Tam'si Ley , Anna Ouskova Leonteva , Johannes Schachenmayer , Pierre Collet

Robust quantum control can achieve noise-resilience of quantum systems and quantum technological devices. While the need for noise-resilience grows with the number of fluctuating quantities, and thus typically with the number of qubits,…

The reduction of Hamiltonian systems aims to build smaller reduced models, valid over a certain range of time and parameters, in order to reduce computing time. By maintaining the Hamiltonian structure in the reduced model, certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Raphaël Côte , Emmanuel Franck , Laurent Navoret , Guillaume Steimer , Vincent Vigon

The most scalable proposed methods of simulating lattice fermions on noisy quantum computers employ encodings that eliminate nonlocal operators using a constant factor more qubits and a nontrivial stabilizer group. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Riley W. Chien , Kanav Setia , Xavier Bonet-Monroig , Mark Steudtner , James D. Whitfield

Quantum signal processing provides an optimal procedure for simulating Hamiltonian evolution on a quantum computer using calls to a block encoding of the Hamiltonian. In many situations it is possible to control between forward and reverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Dominic W. Berry , Danial Motlagh , Giacomo Pantaleoni , Nathan Wiebe

We show that higher-dimensional versions of qubits, or qudits, can be encoded into spin systems and into harmonic oscillators, yielding important advantages for quantum computation. Whereas qubit-based quantum computation is adequate for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Hubert de Guise , Barry C. Sanders

In order to reduce errors, error correction codes (ECCs) need to be implemented fast. They can correct the errors corresponding to the first few orders in the Taylor expansion of the Hamiltonian of the interaction with the environment. If…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Noam Erez , Yakir Aharonov , Benni Reznik , Lev Vaidman