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We extend the family of problems that may be implemented on an adiabatic quantum optimizer (AQO). When a quadratic optimization problem has at least one set of discrete controls and the constraints are linear, we call this a quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Rishabh Chandra , N. Tobias Jacobson , Jonathan E. Moussa , Steven H. Frankel , Sabre Kais

Quantum computing has shown promise for solving complex optimization problems in databases, such as join ordering and index selection. Prior work often submits formulated problems directly to black-box quantum or quantum-inspired solvers…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hanwen Liu , Ibrahim Sabek

When tackling binary optimization problems using quantum algorithms, the conventional Ising representation and Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) encounter difficulties in efficiently handling errors for large-scale problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Ke Wan , Yiwen Liu

This study proposes a novel method for simplifying inequality constraints in Higher-Order Binary Optimization (HOBO) formulations. The proposed method addresses challenges associated with Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Yuichiro Minato

The aircraft loading optimization problem is a computationally hard problem with the best known classical algorithm scaling exponentially with the number of objects. We propose a quantum approach based on a multi-angle variant of the QAOA…

Variational quantum algorithms are a promising hybrid framework for solving chemistry and physics problems with broad applicability to optimization as well. They are particularly well suited for noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Lucas Slattery , Benjamin Villalonga , Bryan K. Clark

This study introduces a hybrid quantum-classical dispatching framework designed for power systems with high renewable penetration. The proposed method integrates a variational quantum algorithm with classical optimization to provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Fu Zhang , Yuming Zhao

We present a hybrid classical/quantum algorithm for efficiently solving the eigenvalue problem of many-particle Hamiltonians on quantum computers with limited resources by splitting the workload between classical and quantum processors.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 John P. T. Stenger , Daniel Gunlycke , C. Stephen Hellberg

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) provides a versatile framework for representing NP-hard combinatorial problems, yet existing solvers often face trade-offs among speed, accuracy, and scalability. In this work, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jiecheng Yang , Ding Wang , Xiang Zhao , Hairui Zhang , Ming Gao , Lin Yang

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…

Quantum annealing (QA) has the potential to significantly improve solution quality and reduce time complexity in solving combinatorial optimization problems compared to classical optimization methods. However, due to the limited number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Seongmin Kim , Sang-Woo Ahn , In-Saeng Suh , Alexander W. Dowling , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

This paper explores the use of quantum computing, specifically the use of HHL and VQLS algorithms, to solve optimal power flow problem in electrical grids. We investigate the effectiveness of these quantum algorithms in comparison to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Sajad Fathi Hafshejani , Md Mohsin Uddin , David Neufeld , Daya Gaur , Robert Benkoczi

Power grid partitioning is an important requirement for resilient distribution grids. Since electricity production is progressively shifted to the distribution side, dynamic identification of self-reliant grid subsets becomes crucial for…

Recent works have shown that quantum computers can polynomially speed up certain SAT-solving algorithms even when the number of available qubits is significantly smaller than the number of variables. Here we generalise this approach. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yimin Ge , Vedran Dunjko

Recently, Dunjko et al.(PRL, 2018) proposed an algorithm for accelerating the solution of 3-satisfiability problems using a small-scale quantum computer. In this paper, we design a distributed quantum-classical hybrid algorithm for solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Huaijing Huang , Daowen Qiu , Le Luo , Paulo Mateus

Quantum annealing is a method developed to solve combinatorial optimization problems by utilizing quantum bits. Solving such problems corresponds to minimizing a cost function defined over binary variables. However, in many practical cases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Seiya Endo , Shohei Kawakatsu , Hiromichi Matsuyama , Kohei Suzuki , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

The recent literature on near-term applications for quantum computers contains several examples of the applications of hybrid quantum/classical variational approaches. This methodology can be applied to a variety of optimization problems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Giacomo Nannicini

Task scheduling with constrained time intervals and limited resources remains a fundamental challenge across domains such as manufacturing, logistics, cloud computing, and healthcare. This study presents a novel variant of the Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 José A. Tirado-Domínguez , Eladio Gutiérrez , Oscar Plata

Quantum optimization has emerged as a promising frontier of quantum computing, providing novel numerical approaches to mathematical optimization problems. The main goal of this paper is to facilitate interdisciplinary research between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Alexey Bochkarev , Raoul Heese , Sven Jäger , Philine Schiewe , Anita Schöbel

Combinatorial optimization problems have attracted much interest in the quantum computing community in the recent years as a potential testbed to showcase quantum advantage. In this paper, we show how to exploit multilevel carriers of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 M. Garcia de Andoin , A. Bottarelli , S. Schmitt , I. Oregi , P. Hauke , M. Sanz