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Quantum neural networks (QNNs) play a pivotal role in addressing complex tasks within quantum machine learning, analogous to classical neural networks in deep learning. Ensuring consistent performance across diverse datasets is crucial for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Chenghong Zhu , Hongshun Yao , Yingjian Liu , Xin Wang

Quantum computers do not run in isolation; rather, they are embedded in quantum-classical hybrid architectures. In these setups, a quantum processing unit communicates with a classical device in near-real time. To enable efficient hybrid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lian Remme , Alexander Weinert , Andre Waschk

Quantum computing has shown significant potential to address complex optimization problems; however, its application remains confined to specific problems at limited scales. Spatial regionalization remains largely unexplored in quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunhan Chang , Amr Magdy , Federico M. Spedalieri , Ibrahim Sabek

Recent technological developments have focused the interest of the quantum computing community on investigating how near-term devices could outperform classical computers for practical applications. A central question that remains open is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Daniel Stilck Franca , Raul Garcia-Patron

The optimal control of unitary transformations is a fundamental problem in quantum control theory and quantum information processing. The feasibility of performing such optimizations is determined by the computational and control resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Katharine W. Moore , Raj Chakrabarti , Gregory Riviello , Herschel Rabitz

Toward quantum machine learning deployed on imperfect near-term intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors, the entire physical implementation of should include as less as possible hand-designed modules with only a few ad-hoc parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Re-Bing Wu , Xi Cao , Pinchen Xie , Yu-xi Liu

In the last decade, public and industrial research funding has moved quantum computing from the early promises of Shor's algorithm through experiments to the era of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices (NISQ) for solving real-world…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Rhonda Au-Yeung , Nicholas Chancellor , Pascal Halffmann

Quantum computational approaches to some classic target identification and localization algorithms, especially for radar images, are investigated, and are found to raise a number of quantum statistics and quantum measurement issues with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Peter B. Weichman

Quantum machine learning has the potential to provide powerful algorithms for artificial intelligence. The pursuit of quantum advantage in quantum machine learning is an active area of research. For current noisy, intermediate-scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Rui Yang , Samuel Bosch , Bobak Kiani , Seth Lloyd , Adrian Lupascu

Many experimental proposals for noisy intermediate scale quantum devices involve training a parameterized quantum circuit with a classical optimization loop. Such hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are popular for applications in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Jarrod R. McClean , Sergio Boixo , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Ryan Babbush , Hartmut Neven

A proof that almost all quantum systems have trap free (that is, free from local optima) landscapes is presented for a large and physically general class of quantum system. This result offers an explanation for why gradient methods succeed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Benjamin Russell , Herschel Rabitz , Rebing Wu

Variational quantum algorithms have found success in the NISQ era owing to their hybrid quantum-classical approach which mitigate the problems of noise in quantum computers. In our study we introduce the dynamic ansatz in the Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Hrushikesh Patil , Yulun Wang , Predrag Krstic

Quantum metrology plays a fundamental role in many scientific areas. However, the complexity of engineering entangled probes and the external noise raise technological barriers for realizing the expected precision of the to-be-estimated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Xiaodong Yang , Xi Chen , Jun Li , Xinhua Peng , Raymond Laflamme

Physically motivated classical heuristic optimization algorithms such as simulated annealing (SA) treat the objective function as an energy landscape, and allow walkers to escape local minima. It has been argued that quantum properties such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Aniruddha Bapat , Stephen Jordan

Despite the advantage quantum computers are expected to deliver when performing simulations compared to their classical counterparts, the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices remain limited in their capabilities. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Clara Ferreira Cores , Kaur Kristjuhan , Mark Nicholas Jones

The ability to control quantum systems using shaped fields as well as to infer the states of such controlled systems from measurement data are key tasks in the design and operation of quantum devices. Here we associate the success of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Christian Arenz , Herschel Rabitz

In the present Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ), hybrid algorithms that leverage classical resources to reduce quantum costs are particularly appealing. We formulate and apply such a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to a power…

Recently, quantum computing has gained attention in urban studies as a tool for complex transport planning problems, but its role remains unclear. This paper reviews quantum computing research in urban transport planning and highlights…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Junxiang Xu , Chence Niu , Divya Jayakumar Nair , Vinayak Dixit

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) hasn't yet demonstrated extensively and clearly its advantages compared to the classical machine learning approach. So far, there are only specific cases where some quantum-inspired techniques have achieved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Javier Mancilla , Christophe Pere

In the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, using variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) to solve optimization problems has become a key application. However, these algorithms face significant challenges, such as choosing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Junyong Lee , JeiHee Cho , Shiho Kim