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Quantum computing promises to solve some important problems faster than conventional computations ever could. Currently available NISQ devices on which first practical applications are already executed demonstrate the potential -- with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Robert Wille , Stefan Hillmich , Lukas Burgholzer

We present a novel quantum circuit extraction scheme that tightly integrates graph-like ZX diagrams with hardware-adaptive routing. The method utilizes the degrees of freedom during the conversion from a ZX diagram to a quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Ludwig Schmid , Korbinian Staudacher , Robert Wille

Symmetries are crucial for tailoring parametrized quantum circuits to applications, due to their capability to capture the essence of physical systems. In this work, we shift the focus away from incorporating symmetries in the circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 David Wierichs , Richard D. P. East , Martín Larocca , M. Cerezo , Nathan Killoran

This work shows that minimizing the depth of a quantum circuit composed of commuting operations reduces to a vertex coloring problem on an appropriately constructed graph, where gates correspond to vertices and edges encode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Hochang Lee , Kyung Chul Jeong , Panjin Kim

Within quantum machine learning, parametrized quantum circuits provide flexible quantum models, but their performance is often highly task-dependent, making manual circuit design challenging. Alternatively, quantum architecture search…

We introduce the Scalable ZX-calculus (SZX-calculus for short), a formal and compact graphical language for the design and verification of quantum computations. The SZX-calculus is an extension of the ZX-calculus, a powerful framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Titouan Carette , Dominic Horsman , Simon Perdrix

Parameterized quantum circuits play a key role for the development of quantum variational algorithms in the realm of the NISQ era. Knowing their actual capability of performing different kinds of tasks is then of the utmost importance. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Guilherme Ilário Correr , Pedro C. Azado , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto , Gabriel Carlo

Quantum computing is an emerging computational paradigm with the potential to outperform classical computers in solving a variety of problems. To achieve this, quantum programs are typically represented as quantum circuits, which must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Valter Uotila , Cong Yu , Bo Zhao

Quantum machine learning has shown promise for high-dimensional data analysis, yet many existing approaches rely on linear unitary operations and shared trainable parameters across outputs. These constraints limit expressivity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Viktoria Patapovich , Maniraman Periyasamy , Mo Kordzanganeh , Alexey Melnikov

ZX-calculus is graphical language for quantum computing which usually focuses on qubits. In this paper, we generalise qubit ZX-calculus to qudit ZX-calculus in any finite dimension by introducing suitable generators, especially a carefully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Quanlong Wang

Graphical calculi such as the ZH-calculus are powerful tools in the study and analysis of quantum processes, with links to other models of quantum computation such as quantum circuits, measurement-based computing, etc. A somewhat compact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-05 Renaud Vilmart

Variational quantum algorithms are ubiquitous in applications of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. Due to the structure of conventional parametrized quantum gates, the evaluated functions typically are finite Fourier series of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 David Wierichs , Josh Izaac , Cody Wang , Cedric Yen-Yu Lin

Optimising quantum circuits to minimise resource usage is crucial, especially with near-term hardware limited by quantum volume. This paper introduces an optimisation algorithm aiming to minimise non-Clifford gate count and two-qubit gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Calum Holker

Variational quantum algorithms (VQA) have emerged as a promising quantum alternative for solving optimization and machine learning problems using parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs). The design of these circuits influences the ability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Alexander Benítez-Buenache , Queralt Portell-Montserrat

Diagrammatic techniques for reasoning about monoidal categories provide an intuitive understanding of the symmetries and connections of interacting computational processes. In the context of categorical quantum mechanics, Coecke and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-29 Amar Hadzihasanovic

Variational (or, parameterized) quantum circuits are quantum circuits that contain real-number parameters, that need to be optimized/"trained" in order to achieve the desired quantum-computational effect. For that training, analytic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Dirk Oliver Theis

In the field of quantum machine learning (QML), parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) -- constructed using a combination of fixed and tunable quantum gates -- provide a promising hybrid framework for tackling complex machine learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Grier M. Jones , Viki Kumar Prasad , Ulrich Fekl , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

The development of new superconducting circuits and the improvement of existing ones rely on the accurate modeling of spectral properties which are key to achieving the needed advances in qubit performance. Systematic circuit analysis at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Sai Pavan Chitta , Tianpu Zhao , Ziwen Huang , Ian Mondragon-Shem , Jens Koch

We introduce a novel compositional description of Feynman diagrams, with well-defined categorical semantics as morphisms in a dagger-compact category. Our chosen setting is suitable for infinite-dimensional diagrammatic reasoning,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Razin A. Shaikh , Stefano Gogioso

The process of translating a quantum algorithm into a form suitable for implementation on a quantum computing platform is crucial but yet challenging. This entails specifying quantum operations with precision, a typically intricate task. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 M. Zomorodi , H. Amini , M. Abbaszadeh , J. Sohrabi , V. Salari , P. Plawiak