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Quantum computing promises to solve difficult optimization problems in chemistry, physics and mathematics more efficiently than classical computers, but requires fault-tolerant quantum computers with millions of qubits. To overcome errors…
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Quantum computers show potential for achieving computational advantage over classical computers, with many candidate applications in combinatorial optimisation. We present an application level benchmarking framework for near-term quantum…
We present a quantum algorithm for finding the minimum of a function based on multistep quantum computation and apply it for optimization problems with continuous variables, in which the variables of the problem are discretized to form the…
Quantum computers face inherent scaling challenges, a fact that necessitates investigation of distributed quantum computing systems, whereby scaling is achieved through interconnection of smaller quantum processing units. However,…
Quantum computation holds promise for the solution of many intractable problems. However, since many quantum algorithms are stochastic in nature they can only find the solution of hard problems probabilistically. Thus the efficiency of the…
Classical optimization algorithms in machine learning often take a long time to compute when applied to a multi-dimensional problem and require a huge amount of CPU and GPU resource. Quantum parallelism has a potential to speed up machine…
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As quantum computing (QC) technologies mature, their integration into established high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures is becoming a central objective for next-generation computing systems. However, unlocking the potential of…
Efficient quantum circuit optimization schemes are central to quantum simulation of strongly interacting quantum many body systems. Here, we present an optimization algorithm which combines machine learning techniques and tensor network…
This paper is devoted to the derivation of a digital quantum algorithm for the Cauchy problem for symmetric first order linear hyperbolic systems, thanks to the reservoir technique. The reservoir technique is a method designed to avoid…
We consider optimal planning in a large-scale system formalised as a hierarchical finite state machine (HFSM). A planning algorithm is proposed computing an optimal plan between any two states in the HFSM, consisting of two steps: A…
Join order optimization is among the most crucial query optimization problems, and its central position is also evident in the new research field where quantum computing is applied to database optimization and data management. In the field,…
Quantum computers leverage the principles of quantum mechanics to do computation with a potential advantage over classical computers. While a single classical computer transforms one particular binary input into an output after applying one…
Variational quantum algorithms constitute one of the most widespread methods for using current noisy quantum computers. However, it is unknown if these heuristic algorithms provide any quantum-computational speedup, although we cannot…
A novel class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms based on the variational approach have recently emerged from separate proposals addressing, for example, quantum chemistry and combinatorial problems. These algorithms provide an…
Integer programming (IP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that is widely used to represent a diverse set of real-world problems spanning multiple fields, such as finance, engineering, logistics, and operations research. It…
Quantum Computers offer an intriguing challenge in modern Computer Science. With the inevitable physical limitations to Moore's Law, quantum hardware provides avenues to solve grander problems faster by utilizing Quantum Mechanical…
We address the problem of solving a system of linear equations via the Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT). One drawback of the QSVT algorithm is that it requires huge quantum resources if we want to achieve an acceptable accuracy.…