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In classical computing, analog approaches have sometimes appeared to be more powerful than they really are. This occurs when resources, particularly precision, are not appropriately taken into account. While the same should also hold for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Itay Hen

Adiabatic quantum programming defines the time-dependent mapping of a quantum algorithm into an underlying hardware or logical fabric. An essential step is embedding problem-specific information into the quantum logical fabric. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 Christine Klymko , Blair D. Sullivan , Travis S. Humble

In this work we present a quantum algorithm for multiobjective combinatorial optimization. We show how to map a convex combination of objective functions onto a Hamiltonian and then use that Hamiltonian to prove that the quantum adiabatic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Benjamin Baran , Marcos Villagra

We propose an adiabatic quantum algorithm for generating a quantum pure state encoding of the PageRank vector, the most widely used tool in ranking the relative importance of internet pages. We present extensive numerical simulations which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Silvano Garnerone , Paolo Zanardi , Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo, a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm in which configurations are proposed by a quantum proposer and accepted or rejected by a classical algorithm, has been introduced as a possible method for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Wen Ting Hsieh , Alev Orfi , Dries Sels

Adiabatic quantum computation has recently attracted attention in the physics and computer science communities, but its computational power was unknown. We describe an efficient adiabatic simulation of any given quantum algorithm, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-22 Dorit Aharonov , Wim van Dam , Julia Kempe , Zeph Landau , Seth Lloyd , Oded Regev

This paper concerns quantum heuristics able to extend the domain of quantum computing, defining a promising way in the large number of well-known classical algorithms. Quantum approximate heuristics take advantage of alternation between a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Eric Bourreau , Gérard Fleury , Philippe Lacomme

Proposed quantum advantage in electronic structure has so far required significant fine-tuning to find problems where classical heuristics fail. We describe how to obtain robust quantum speedups for correlated electronic structure and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Jielun Chen , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

This paper summarizes a quantum algorithm of [R.D. Somma, et.al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 130504 (2008)] that simulates a classical annealing process for solving discrete optimization problems. The complexity of the quantum algorithm scales…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sergio Boixo , Rolando D. Somma

In adiabatic quantum computing the aim is to track an eigenstate as the Hamiltonian changes. In the usual setup this is achieved using the natural time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of the system and the main technical tool is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Joseph Cunningham , Jérémie Roland

Monte Carlo methods use random sampling to estimate numerical quantities which are hard to compute deterministically. One important example is the use in statistical physics of rapidly mixing Markov chains to approximately compute partition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Ashley Montanaro

The study of quantum computation has been motivated by the hope of finding efficient quantum algorithms for solving classically hard problems. In this context, quantum algorithms by local adiabatic evolution have been shown to solve an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jérémie Roland , Nicolas J. Cerf

Programmable quantum systems based on Rydberg atom arrays have recently been used for hardware-efficient tests of quantum optimization algorithms [Ebadi et al., Science, 376, 1209 (2022)] with hundreds of qubits. In particular, the maximum…

We consider a classical and superadiabatic version of an iterative quantum adiabatic algorithm to solve combinatorial optimization problems. This algorithm is deterministic because it is based on purely classical dynamics, that is, it does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-08 Takuya Hatomura

A quantum system will stay near its instantaneous ground state if the Hamiltonian that governs its evolution varies slowly enough. This quantum adiabatic behavior is the basis of a new class of algorithms for quantum computing. We test one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann , Joshua Lapan , Andrew Lundgren , Daniel Preda

We construct a set of instances of 3SAT which are not solved efficiently using the simplest quantum adiabatic algorithm. These instances are obtained by picking random clauses all consistent with two disparate planted solutions and then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-30 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , David Gosset , Sam Gutmann , Harvey B. Meyer , Peter Shor

It is shown that quantum computer can detect the existence of root of a function almost exponentially more efficient than the classical counterpart. It is also shown that a quantum computer can produce quantum state corresponding to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Nhat A. Nghiem

Quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo, an algorithm in which configurations are proposed through a measured quantum quench and accepted or rejected by a classical algorithm, has been proposed as a possible method for robust quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Alev Orfi , Dries Sels

Research in quantum information science aims to surpass the scaling limitations of classical information processing. From a physicist's perspective, performance improvement involves a physical speedup in the quantum domain, achieved by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Farha Yasmin , Jan Sperling

Quantum amplitude amplification and estimation have shown quadratic speedups to unstructured search and estimation tasks. We show that a coherent combination of these quantum algorithms also provides a quadratic speedup to calculating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Caleb Rotello