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Quantum annealers provide an effective framework for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. This work presents a novel methodology for training Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) by reformulating the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ernesto Acosta , Guillermo Botella , Carlos Cano

Optimizing the training of a machine learning pipeline helps in reducing training costs and improving model performance. One such optimizing strategy is quantum annealing, which is an emerging computing paradigm that has shown potential in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Rajdeep Kumar Nath , Himanshu Thapliyal , Travis S. Humble

Quantum annealers aim at solving non-convex optimization problems by exploiting cooperative tunneling effects to escape local minima. The underlying idea consists in designing a classical energy function whose ground states are the sought…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Carlo Baldassi , Riccardo Zecchina

Quantum annealers are specialized quantum computers for solving combinatorial optimization problems using special characteristics of quantum computing (QC), such as superposition, entanglement, and quantum tunneling. Theoretically, quantum…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xinyi Wang , Asmar Muqeet , Tao Yue , Shaukat Ali , Paolo Arcaini

A significant challenge in quantum annealing is to map a real-world problem onto a hardware graph of limited connectivity. If the maximum degree of the problem graph exceeds the maximum degree of the hardware graph, one employs minor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Yan-Long Fang , P. A. Warburton

Quantum simulation is a cornerstone application for quantum computing, yet standard methods face a trade-off between circuit depth and accuracy: Trotterization depth scales with the number of Hamiltonian terms $L$, while sampling-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sangjin Lee , Sangkook Choi

We demonstrate how quantum field theory problems can be embedded on quantum annealers. The general method we use is a discretisation of the field theory problem into a general Ising model, with the continuous field values being encoded into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 Steven Abel , Nicholas Chancellor , Michael Spannowsky

We introduce regular charts as physical reference frames in spacetime, and we show that general spacetimes can always be fully captured by regular charts. Effective quantum field theories (QFTs) can be conveniently defined in regular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Andreas Raab

The quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is a fundamental primitive in quantum computation and quantum information. In this work, we generalize the QFT for finite groups to a QFT for finite-dimensional semisimple algebras, and give efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ben Foxman , Barak Nehoran , Yongshan Ding

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general framework to parametrize the low-energy approximation to a UV model that is widely used in model-independent searches for new physics. The use of EFTs at the LHC can suffer from a 'validity' issue,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Spencer Chang , Markus A. Luty , Teng Ma , Francesco Montagno , Andrea Wulzer

We show that QFT (as well as QM) is not a complete physical theory. We constructed a classical statistical model inducing quantum field averages. The phase space consists of square integrable functions, $f(\phi),$ of the classical bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Andrei Khrennikov

Fitting geometric models onto outlier contaminated data is provably intractable. Many computer vision systems rely on random sampling heuristics to solve robust fitting, which do not provide optimality guarantees and error bounds. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Anh-Dzung Doan , Michele Sasdelli , David Suter , Tat-Jun Chin

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework that exploits a separation of scales in physical systems to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. Particularly interesting are few-body systems with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 H. -W. Hammer

The Quantum Fisher Information Matrix (QFIM) is a fundamental quantity in various subfields of quantum physics. It plays a crucial role in the study of parameterized quantum states, as it quantifies their sensitivity to variations in its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Rafael Gómez-Lurbe

A global analysis of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) with SFitter is performed using measurements of single top quark production and top quark decay processes from ATLAS and CMS at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-10 Rhea Moutafis

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a robust framework to interpret experimental measurements in the context of new physics scenarios while minimising assumptions on the nature of the underlying UV-complete theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-25 Tommaso Giani , Giacomo Magni , Juan Rojo

We propose a new non-perturbative method for studying UV complete unitary quantum field theories (QFTs) with a mass gap in general number of spacetime dimensions. The method relies on unitarity formulated as positive semi-definiteness of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Denis Karateev , Simon Kuhn , Joao Penedones

I present a novel use of quantum annealing to solve the Set Splitting Problem using (QUBO) problem formulation. The contribution of the work is in formulating penalty functions that ensure the ground state of the QUBO Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Sean Borneman

This paper explores the applications of quantum annealing (QA) and classical simulated annealing (SA) to a suite of combinatorial optimization problems in machine learning, namely feature selection, instance selection, and clustering. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Chloe Pomeroy , Aleksandar Pramov , Karishma Thakrar , Lakshmi Yendapalli

Quantum cooling has demonstrated its potential in quantum computing, which can reduce the number of control channels needed for external signals. Recent progress also supports the possibility of maintaining quantum coherence in large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Jia-Jin Feng , Biao Wu