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Qubit-based variational quantum algorithms have undergone rapid development in recent years but still face several challenges. In this context, we propose a symmetry-enhanced digitized counterdiabatic quantum algorithm utilizing qudits…

Universal speeded-up adiabatic geometric quantum computation~(SAGQC) is studied in $\Lambda$-type three-level system with different coupling cases, i.e., time-dependent detuning, large detuning and one-photon resonance couplings,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 J. L. Wu , S. L. Su

We present a heuristic algorithm designed to solve Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems efficiently. The algorithm, referred to as IC-D2S, leverages a hybrid approach using Ising and classical machines to address very…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Armin Abdollahi , Mehdi Kamal , Massoud Pedram

We introduce a counterdiabatic (CD) extension of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for constrained portfolio optimization. By incorporating approximate adiabatic gauge potentials generated from nested commutators of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Jose Falla , Ilya Safro

Recently, the technique of counterdiabatic driving, which provides an effective strategy for accelerating adiabatic quantum evolution, has been widely applied in the preparation of many-body quantum states. In this work, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Fengzhe Tang , Gangcheng Wang

We report the largest trapped-ion hardware demonstration of lattice protein-folding optimization to date, using bias-field digitized counterdiabatic quantum optimization (BF-DCQO) on a fully connected 64-qubit Barium development system…

Quantum computing promises to efficiently and accurately solve many important problems in quantum chemistry which elude classical solvers, such as the electronic structure problem of highly correlated materials. Two leading methods in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Sean Thrasher , Ioannis Kolotouros , Julien Michel , Petros Wallden

Energy minimization of Ising spin-glasses has played a central role in statistical and solid-state physics, facilitating studies of phase transitions and magnetism. Recent proposals suggest using Ising spin-glasses for non-traditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Hector J. Garcia , Igor L. Markov

Combinatorial optimization problems are crucial for widespread applications but remain difficult to solve on a large scale with conventional hardware. Novel optical platforms, known as coherent or photonic Ising machines, are attracting…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-19 D. Pierangeli , G. Marcucci , C. Conti

Unsupervised visual clustering has garnered significant attention in recent times, aiming to characterize distributions of unlabeled visual images through clustering based on a parameterized appearance approach. Alternatively, clustering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Xuan Bac Nguyen , Hugh Churchill , Khoa Luu , Samee U. Khan

Most research regarding quantum adiabatic optimization has focused on stoquastic Hamiltonians, whose ground states can be expressed with only real, nonnegative amplitudes. This raises the question of whether classical Monte Carlo algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Jacob Bringewatt , William Dorland , Stephen P. Jordan , Alan Mink

Counterdiabatic (CD) driving has the potential to speed up adiabatic quantum state preparation by suppressing unwanted excitations. However, existing approaches either require intractable classical computations or are based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Jernej Rudi Finžgar , Simone Notarnicola , Madelyn Cain , Mikhail D. Lukin , Dries Sels

An adiabatic quantum algorithm is essentially given by three elements: An initial Hamiltonian with known ground state, a problem Hamiltonian whose ground state corresponds to the solution of the given problem and an evolution schedule such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Davide Pastorello , Enrico Blanzieri

Counterdiabatic driving, which enforces adiabatic evolution in arbitrary timescales, can be realised by engineering a Floquet Hamiltonian which oscillates between the Hamiltonian and its derivative requiring no additional control terms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Callum W Duncan

Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems exhibit exponential complexity, making their resolution challenging. Simulated Adiabatic Bifurcation (aSB) is a quantum-inspired algorithm to obtain approximate solutions to largescale CO problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Fabrizio Orlando , Deborah Volpe , Giacomo Orlandi , Mariagrazia Graziano , Fabrizio Riente , Marco Vacca

The preparation of ground states of spin systems is a fundamental operation in quantum computing and serves as the basis of adiabatic quantum computing. This form of quantum computation is subject to the adiabatic theorem which in turn…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Andreas Hartmann , Glen Bigan Mbeng , Wolfgang Lechner

Adiabatic quantum optimization offers a new method for solving hard optimization problems. In this paper we calculate median adiabatic times (in seconds) determined by the minimum gap during the adiabatic quantum optimization for an NP-hard…

We present a coherent counter-diabatic quantum protocol to prepare ground states in the lattice gauge mapping of all-to-all Ising models (LHZ) with considerably enhanced final ground state fidelity compared to a quantum annealing protocol.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Andreas Hartmann , Wolfgang Lechner

Adiabatic Quantum Computing relies on the quantum adiabatic theorem, which states that a quantum system evolves along its ground state with time if the governing Hamiltonian varies infinitely slowly. However, practical limitations force…

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a near-term hybrid algorithm intended to solve combinatorial optimization problems, such as MaxCut. QAOA can be made to mimic an adiabatic schedule, and in the $p\to\infty$ limit the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Jonathan Wurtz , Peter J. Love