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Quantum computing promises exponential speed-ups for important simulation and optimization problems. It also poses new CAD problems that are similar to, but more challenging, than the related problems in classical (non-quantum) CAD, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 George F. Viamontes , Igor L. Markov , John P. Hayes

This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is about how quantum theory can be recovered from first principles, while the second part is about the application of diagrammatic reasoning, specifically the ZX-calculus, to practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 John van de Wetering

A new physical implementation for quantum computation is proposed. The vibrational modes of molecules are used to encode qubit systems. Global quantum logic gates are realized using shaped femtosecond laser pulses which are calculated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Carmen M. Tesch , Regina de Vivie-Riedle

The proposed framework represents the first tool to compile a quantum circuit across photonic-connected distributed quantum processors. Its design follows a divide-and-conquer paradigm for circuit partitioning, transpilation, and assembly,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Sen Zhang , Yipie Liu , Brian Mark , Weiwen Jiang , Zebo Yang , Lei Yang

In this report we present a general approach for estimating quantum circuits by means of measurements. We apply the developed general approach for estimating the quality of superconducting and optical quantum chips. Using the methods of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Yu. I. Bogdanov , N. A. Bogdanova , B. I. Bantysh , D. V. Fastovets , V. F. Lukichev

Quantum Theory is one of the pillars of modern science developed over the last hundred years. In this review paper we introduce, step by step, the quantum theory understood as a mathematical model describing quantum experiments. We start…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Teiko Heinosaari , Mario Ziman

Equational reasoning is central to quantum circuit optimisation and verification: one replaces subcircuits by provably equivalent ones using a fixed set of rewrite rules viewed as equations. A finite rule set is most informative when it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Colin Blake

We provide a reformulation of finite dimensional quantum theory in the circuit framework in terms of mathematical axioms, and a reconstruction of quantum theory from operational postulates. The mathematical axioms for quantum theory are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 Lucien Hardy

This paper is an essentially self-contained and rigorous description of the fundamental principles of quantum computing from a mathematical perspective. It is intended to help mathematicians who want to get a grasp of this quickly growing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 J. Ossorio-Castillo , José M. Tornero

We design a series of quantum circuits that generate absolute maximally entangled (AME) states to benchmark a quantum computer. A relation between graph states and AME states can be exploited to optimize the structure of the circuits and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-02 Alba Cervera-Lierta , José Ignacio Latorre , Dardo Goyeneche

Computations with a future quantum computer will be implemented through the operations by elementary quantum gates. It is now well known that the collection of 1-bit and 2-bit quantum gates are universal for quantum computation, i.e., any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Chen , D. A. Church , B. -G. Englert , M. S. Zubairy

Quantifying quantum states' complexity is a key problem in various subfields of science, from quantum computing to black-hole physics. We prove a prominent conjecture by Brown and Susskind about how random quantum circuits' complexity…

The conventional paradigm of quantum computing is discrete: it utilizes discrete sets of gates to realize bitstring-to-bitstring mappings, some of them arguably intractable for classical computers. In parameterized quantum approaches, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Adrián Pérez-Salinas , Mahtab Yaghubi Rad , Alice Barthe , Vedran Dunjko

We derive the category-theoretic backbone of quantum theory from a process ontology. More specifically, we treat quantum theory as a theory of systems, processes and their interactions. In this first part of a three-part overview, we first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Bob Coecke , Aleks Kissinger

Two quantum theories are physically equivalent if they are related, not by a unitary transformation, but by an isometric transformation. The conditions under which a quantum canonical transformation is an isometric transformation are given.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Arlen Anderson

A quantum computer based on an asymmetric coupled dot system has been proposed and shown to operate as the controlled-NOT-gate. The basic idea is (1) the electron is localized in one of the asymmetric coupled dots. (2)The electron transfer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Tetsufumi Tanamoto

Hybrid quantum-classical systems make it possible to utilize existing quantum computers to their fullest extent. Within this framework, parameterized quantum circuits can be regarded as machine learning models with remarkable expressive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Marcello Benedetti , Erika Lloyd , Stefan Sack , Mattia Fiorentini

Quantum computers can efficiently solve problems which are widely believed to lie beyond the reach of classical computers. In the near-term, hybrid quantum-classical algorithms, which efficiently embed quantum hardware in classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Ananda Roy , Robert M. Konik , David Rogerson

Higher-order quantum theory is an extension of quantum theory where one introduces transformations whose input and output are transformations, thus generalizing the notion of channels and quantum operations. The generalization then goes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Alessandro Bisio , Paolo Perinotti

This paper explains some fundamental ideas of {\em feedback} control of quantum systems through the study of a relatively simple two-level system coupled to optical field channels. The model for this system includes both continuous and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Matthew James