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The basic idea of quantum computing is surprisingly similar to that of kernel methods in machine learning, namely to efficiently perform computations in an intractably large Hilbert space. In this paper we explore some theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Maria Schuld , Nathan Killoran

Quantum neural network architectures that have little-to-no inductive biases are known to face trainability and generalization issues. Inspired by a similar problem, recent breakthroughs in machine learning address this challenge by…

A classical result in quantum topology is that oriented 2-dimensional topological quantum field theories (2-TQFTs) are fully classified by commutative Frobenius algebras. In 2006, Turaev and Turner introduced additional structure on…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Agustina Czenky , Jacob Kesten , Abiel Quinonez , Chelsea Walton

Continuous-variable (CV) quantum computing offers a promising framework for scalable quantum machine learning, leveraging optical systems with infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. While discrete-variable (DV) quantum neural networks have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Daniel Alejandro Lopez , Oscar Montiel , Oscar Castillo , Miguel Lopez-Montiel

We study a special sort of 2-dimensional extended Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) which we call open-closed TQFTs. These are defined on open-closed cobordisms by which we mean smooth compact oriented 2-manifolds with corners that…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-02-22 Aaron D. Lauda , Hendryk Pfeiffer

Mostly self-contained script on functorial topological quantum field theories. These notes give a slow introduction to the basic notions of category theory which serve a closer investigation of cobordisms and (commutative) Frobenius…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Leon Menger

Classical deep neural networks can learn rich multi-particle correlations in collider data, but their inductive biases are rarely anchored in physics structure. We propose quantum-informed neural networks (QINNs), a general framework that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Aritra Bal , Markus Klute , Benedikt Maier , Melik Oughton , Eric Pezone , Michael Spannowsky

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) are quantum circuits for characterizing complex quantum states. They have been proposed for recognizing quantum phases of matter at low sampling cost and have been designed for condensed matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Leon C. Sander , Nathan A. McMahon , Petr Zapletal , Michael J. Hartmann

We propose a method of training quantization thresholds (TQT) for uniform symmetric quantizers using standard backpropagation and gradient descent. Contrary to prior work, we show that a careful analysis of the straight-through estimator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Sambhav R. Jain , Albert Gural , Michael Wu , Chris H. Dick

The goal of this work is to describe a categorical formalism for (Extended) Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFTs) and present them as functors from a suitable category of cobordisms with corners to a linear category, generalizing 2d…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-08-29 Mark Feshbach , Alexander A. Voronov

Quantum classifiers are trainable quantum circuits used as machine learning models. The first part of the circuit implements a quantum feature map that encodes classical inputs into quantum states, embedding the data in a high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-03 Seth Lloyd , Maria Schuld , Aroosa Ijaz , Josh Izaac , Nathan Killoran

We introduce a quantum neural network, QNN, that can represent labeled data, classical or quantum, and be trained by supervised learning. The quantum circuit consists of a sequence of parameter dependent unitary transformations which acts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Edward Farhi , Hartmut Neven

We construct a general wave function with the topological order by introducing the $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ gauge degrees of freedom, characterizing both the toric code state and double semion state. Via calculating the correlation length defined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-17 Wen-Tao Xu , Guang-Ming Zhang

Quantum machine learning (QML) shows promise for analyzing quantum data. A notable example is the use of quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs), implemented as specific types of quantum circuits, to recognize phases of matter. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Chukwudubem Umeano , Annie E. Paine , Vincent E. Elfving , Oleksandr Kyriienko

We introduce a general scheme for sequential one-way quantum computation where static systems with long-living quantum coherence (memories) interact with moving systems that may possess very short coherence times. Both the generation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Augusto J. Roncaglia , Leandro Aolita , Alessandro Ferraro , Antonio Acin

In this paper, we study complex-valued neural network (CVNNs) with tensor-valued hidden-to-output weights within the framework of neural-network quantum field theory (NN-QFT). For standard CVNNs with scalar weights, we derive the generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Guojun Huang , Kai Zhou

The popular qubit framework has dominated recent work on quantum kernel machine learning, with results characterising expressivity, learnability and generalisation. As yet, there is no comparative framework to understand these concepts for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Laura J. Henderson , Rishi Goel , Sally Shrapnel

We develop a framework for simulating measure-preserving, ergodic dynamical systems on a quantum computer. Our approach provides a new operator-theoretic representation of classical dynamics by combining ergodic theory with quantum…

The growing computational demands of classical neural networks have intensified the search for energy-efficient and powerful computational alternatives. Quantum neural networks (QNNs) implemented on integrated photonic platforms offer a…

We construct a Topological Quantum Field Theory (in the sense of Atiyah) associated to the universal finite-type invariant of 3-dimensional manifolds, as a functor from the category of 3-dimensional manifolds with parametrized boundary,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Dorin Cheptea , Thang T Q Le