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Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms (QAOA) have demonstrated a strong potential in addressing graph-based optimization problems. However, the execution of large-scale quantum circuits remains constrained by the limitations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Vicente P. Soloviev , Antonio Márquez Romero , Josh Kirsopp , Michal Krompiec

Recent advancements in quantum technologies have highlighted the importance of mitigating system imperfections, including parameter uncertainties and decoherence effects, to improve the performance of experimental platforms. However, most…

Quantum control for error correction is critical for the practical use of quantum computers. We address quantum optimal control for single-shot multi-qubit gates by framing as a feasibility problem for the Hamiltonian model and then solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Raymond J. Spiteri , Marina Schmidt , Joydip Ghosh , Ehsan Zahedinejad , Barry C. Sanders

We show how a digitized version of Quantum Annealing can be made optimal, realizing the best possible solution allowed by quantum mechanics in the shortest time, without any prior knowledge on the location and properties of the spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-28 Glen Bigan Mbeng , Rosario Fazio , Giuseppe E. Santoro

In contrast to the classical optimization process required by the quantum approximate optimization algorithm, FALQON, a feedback-based algorithm for quantum optimization [A. B. Magann {\it et al.,} {\color{blue}Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf129},…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 S. X. Li , W. L. Mu , J. B. You , X. Q. Shao

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid algorithm whose control parameters are classically optimized. In addition to the variational parameters, the right choice of hyperparameter is crucial for improving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Yu Pan , Yifan Tong , Yi Yang

Mathematical problems of optimal control in quantum systems attract high interest in connection with fundamental questions and existing and prospective applications. An important problem is the development of methods for constructing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Oleg Morzhin , Alexander Pechen

In topologically-protected quantum computation, quantum gates can be carried out by adiabatically braiding two-dimensional quasiparticles, reminiscent of entangled world lines. Bonesteel et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 140503 (2005)], as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-14 Ross B. McDonald , Helmut G. Katzgraber

We introduce a new scheme for quantum circuit design called controlled gate networks. Rather than trying to reduce the complexity of individual unitary operations, the new strategy is to toggle between all of the unitary operations needed…

We provide several quantum algorithms for continuous optimization that do not require gradient estimation. Instead, we encode the optimization problem into the dynamics of a physical system and coherently simulate the time evolution. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ahmet Burak Catli , Sophia Simon , Nathan Wiebe

In variational quantum algorithms, parameterization is typically applied to single-qubit gates.In this study, we instead parameterize a generalized controlled gate and propose an algorithm to locally minimize the cost function by maximally…

Scaling the size of monolithic quantum computer systems is a difficult task. As the number of qubits within a device increases, a number of factors contribute to decreases in yield and performance. To meet this challenge, distributed…

This research investigates the possibility of using quantum optimal control techniques to co-optimize the energetic cost and the process fidelity of a quantum unitary gate. The energetic cost is theoretically defined, and thereby, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Sebastiaan Fauquenot , Aritra Sarkar , Sebastian Feld

Different ways of modelling quantum control systems, formulating control problems and solving the resulting problems are considered and compared. In particular, we compare the performance of geometric and optimal control, as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 Sonia G Schirmer , Peter J Pemberton-Ross , Xiaoting Wang

While algebraic derivations establish theoretical limits for quantum cloning, practical implementations require explicit operator representations that are often unavailable analytically. We present a computational framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Jörg Hettel

A unitary evolution in time may be treated as a curve in the manifold of the special unitary group. The length of such a curve can be related to the energetic cost of the associated computation, meaning a geodesic curve identifies an…

As industrial models and designs grow increasingly complex, the demand for optimal control of large-scale dynamical systems has significantly increased. However, traditional methods for optimal control incur significant overhead as problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Connor Clayton , Jiaqi Leng , Gengzhi Yang , Yi-Ling Qiao , Ming C. Lin , Xiaodi Wu

A hybrid quantum-classical algorithm is a computational scheme in which quantum circuits are used to extract information that is then processed by a classical routine to guide subsequent quantum operations. These algorithms are especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Alon Levi , Ziv Ossi , Eliahu Cohen , Amit Te'eni

Quantum computing has garnered attention for its potential to solve complex computational problems with considerable speedup. Despite notable advancements in the field, achieving meaningful scalability and noise control in quantum hardware…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Eduardo Willwock Lussi , Rafael de Santiago , Eduardo Inacio Duzzioni

With recent improvements in coherence times, superconducting transmon qubits have become a promising platform for quantum computing. They can be flexibly engineered over a wide range of parameters, but also require us to identify an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Michael H. Goerz , Felix Motzoi , K. Birgitta Whaley , Christiane P. Koch