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Quantum computing provides a powerful framework for tackling computational problems that are classically intractable. The goal of this paper is to explore the use of quantum computers for solving relevant problems in systems and control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jan Schneider , Julian Berberich

This tutorial offers a quick, hands-on introduction to solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) models on currently available quantum computers and their simulators. We cover both IBM and D-Wave machines: IBM utilizes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Arul Mazumder , Sridhar Tayur

Cybersecurity in telecommunication networks often leads to hard combinatorial optimization problems that are challenging to solve with classical methods. This work investigates the practical feasibility of using quantum annealing to address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Ali Abbassi , Yann Dujardin , Eric Gourdin , Philippe Lacomme , Caroline Prodhon

Sampling equilibrium ensembles of dense polymer mixtures is a paradigmatically hard problem in computational physics, even in lattice-based models. Here, we develop a formalism based on interacting binary tensors that allows for tackling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-25 Cristian Micheletti , Philipp Hauke , Pietro Faccioli

Quantum annealing is a generic solver for combinatorial optimization problems that utilizes quantum fluctuations. Recently, there has been extensive research applying quantum annealers, which are hardware implementations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Taisei Takabayashi , Takeru Goto , Masayuki Ohzeki

Modern quantum annealers can find high-quality solutions to combinatorial optimisation objectives given as quadratic unconstrained binary optimisation (QUBO) problems. Unfortunately, obtaining suitable QUBO forms in computer vision remains…

Quantum computing has long promised to revolutionize the way we solve complex problems. At the same time, tensor networks are widely used across various fields due to their computational efficiency and capacity to represent intricate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Miquel Albertí Binimelis

Recent advancements in quantum annealing hardware and numerous studies in this area suggests that quantum annealers have the potential to be effective in solving unconstrained binary quadratic programming problems. Naturally, one may desire…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Sahar Karimi , Pooya Ronagh

We briefly review various computational methods for the solution of optimization problems. First, several classical methods such as Metropolis algorithm and simulated annealing are discussed. We continue with a description of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-01 Eliahu Cohen , Boaz Tamir

We outline an algorithm for the Quantum Counting problem using Adiabatic Quantum Computation (AQC). We show that using local adiabatic evolution, a process in which the adiabatic procedure is performed at a variable rate, the problem is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-02 Itay Hen

A dynamical quantum model assigns an eigenstate to a specified observable even when no measurement is made, and gives a stochastic evolution rule for that eigenstate. Such a model yields a distribution over classical histories of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Aaronson

The evaluation of the performance of adiabatic annealers is hindered by lack of efficient algorithms for simulating their behaviour. We exploit the analyticity of the standard model for the adiabatic quantum process to develop an efficient…

We investigate the quantum algorithms for dynamic programming by Ambainis et al. (SODA'19). While giving provable complexity speedups and applicable to a variety of NP-hard problems, these algorithms have a notable drawback: they require a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Susanna Caroppo , Jevgēnijs Vihrovs , Dārta Zajakina , Aleksejs Zajakins

Multi-model fitting (MMF) presents a significant challenge in Computer Vision, particularly due to its combinatorial nature. While recent advancements in quantum computing offer promise for addressing NP-hard problems, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Saurabh Pandey , Luca Magri , Federica Arrigoni , Vladislav Golyanik

The promise of quantum computing to open new unexplored possibilities in several scientific fields has been long discussed, but until recently the lack of a functional quantum computer has confined this discussion mostly to theoretical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Riccardo Nembrini , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

With the advent of novel quantum computing technologies, and the knowledge that such technology might be used to fundamentally change computing applications, a prime opportunity has presented itself to investigate the practical application…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Kevin Wils , Boyang Chen

Quantum computing is no longer a nascent field. Programmable quantum annealing devices with more that 1000 qubits are commercially available. How does one know that a putative quantum annealing device is indeed quantum? How should one go…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-23 Joshua Job , Daniel Lidar

We propose an efficient algorithm that combines column generation and quantum annealing to solve binary quadratic problems. Binary quadratic problems are difficult to solve because they are NP-hard. An attempt to solve binary quadratic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-24 Sota Hirama , Masayuki Ohzeki

This research highlights the potential of quantum annealing in tackling large-scale optimization problems within the airline industry,demonstrating its efficiency for certain problem sizes while also acknowledging its current limitations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Kuntal Adak , Sakshi Kaushik , Rahul Rana

I describe how real quantum annealers may be used to perform local (in state space) searches around specified states, rather than the global searches traditionally implemented in the quantum annealing algorithm. The quantum annealing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Nicholas Chancellor