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Due to the limitations of present-day quantum hardware, it is especially critical to design algorithms that make the best possible use of available resources. When simulating quantum many-body systems on a quantum computer, straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Olivia Di Matteo , Anna McCoy , Peter Gysbers , Takayuki Miyagi , R. M. Woloshyn , Petr Navrátil

Unit commitment is an important optimization problem in power system operations, classified as NP-hard. This paper presents a hybrid quantum-classical method for the unit commitment problem with time-dependent constraints, where decisions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Kien X. Nguyen , Ilya Safro , Xiaoyuan Liu

We present efficient quantum algorithms for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of general input states using an oracular model of a quantum computer. Our algorithms use either constant or adaptively chosen time steps and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 Nathan Wiebe , Dominic W. Berry , Peter Hoyer , Barry C. Sanders

Quantum computing can enable a variety of breakthroughs in research and industry in the future. Although some quantum algorithms already exist that show a theoretical speedup compared to the best known classical algorithms, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Marie Salm , Johanna Barzen , Uwe Breitenbücher , Frank Leymann , Benjamin Weder , Karoline Wild

Leveraging quantum computers for optimization problems holds promise across various application domains. Nevertheless, utilizing respective quantum computing solvers requires describing the optimization problem according to the Quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Deborah Volpe , Nils Quetschlich , Mariagrazia Graziano , Giovanna Turvani , Robert Wille

An adiabatic quantum algorithm is essentially given by three elements: An initial Hamiltonian with known ground state, a problem Hamiltonian whose ground state corresponds to the solution of the given problem and an evolution schedule such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Davide Pastorello , Enrico Blanzieri

Planning energy production is a challenging task due to its cost-sensitivity, fast-moving energy markets, uncertainties in demand, and technical constraints of power plants. Thus, more complex models of this so-called \emph{unit commitment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Pascal Halffmann , Patrick Holzer , Kai Plociennik , Michael Trebing

Implementing a qubit quantum computer in continuous-variable systems conventionally requires the engineering of specific interactions according to the encoding basis states. In this work, we present a unified formalism to conduct universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-06 Hoi-Kwan Lau , Martin B. Plenio

We propose and analyze a set of variational quantum algorithms for solving quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems where a problem consisting of $n_c$ classical variables can be implemented on $\mathcal O(\log n_c)$ number of…

In recent years, quantum, quantum-inspired, and hybrid algorithms are increasingly showing promise for solving software engineering optimization problems. However, best-intended practices for conducting empirical studies have not yet well…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Man Zhang , Yuechen Li , Tao Yue , Kai-Yuan Cai

A primary objective of quantum computation is to efficiently simulate quantum physics. Scientifically and technologically important quantum Hamiltonians include those with spin-$s$, vibrational, photonic, and other bosonic degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 Nicolas P. D. Sawaya , Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Adam Holmes

Many standard linear algebra problems can be solved on a quantum computer by using recently developed quantum linear algebra algorithms that make use of block encodings and quantum eigenvalue/singular value transformations. A block encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Daan Camps , Lin Lin , Roel Van Beeumen , Chao Yang

Quantum computing has emerged as a powerful potential accelerator for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), but whether this promise can be realized in practice depends on how fluid information is encoded on quantum hardware. This review…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Omer Rathore , Alastair Basden , Nicholas Chancellor , Halim Kusumaatmaja

We propose a scalable encoding of combinatorial optimization problems with arbitrary connectivity, including higher-order terms, on arrays of trapped neutral atoms requiring only a global laser drive. Our approach relies on modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Martin Lanthaler , Kilian Ender , Clemens Dlaska , Wolfgang Lechner

The physics of quantum mechanics is the inspiration for, and underlies, quantum computation. As such, one expects physical intuition to be highly influential in the understanding and design of many quantum algorithms, particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Guang Hao Low , Isaac L. Chuang

The exponential speedups promised by Hamiltonian simulation on a quantum computer depends crucially on structure in both the Hamiltonian $\hat{H}$, and the quantum circuit $\hat{U}$ that encodes its description. In the quest to better…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Guang Hao Low , Isaac L. Chuang

Optimal quantum control of continuous variable systems poses a formidable computational challenge because of the high-dimensional character of the system dynamics. The framework of quantum invariants can significantly reduce the complexity…

Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics is one of the most fundamental and significant tasks for characterising quantum materials. Recently, a series of quantum algorithms employing block-encoding of Hamiltonians have succeeded in providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Kaoru Mizuta

Quantum computers can be used to address molecular structure, materials science and condensed matter physics problems, which currently stretch the limits of existing high-performance computing resources. Finding exact numerical solutions to…

We propose a framework to solve non-linear and history-dependent mechanical problems based on a hybrid classical computer -- quantum annealer approach. Quantum Computers are anticipated to solve particular operations exponentially faster.…

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