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Realizing quantum speedup for practically relevant, computationally hard problems is a central challenge in quantum information science. Using Rydberg atom arrays with up to 289 qubits in two spatial dimensions, we experimentally…

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…

Recent progress in quantum computing and quantum simulation of many-body systems with arrays of neutral atoms using Rydberg excitation has provided unforeseen opportunities towards computational advantage in solving various optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Ahmed M. Farouk , I. I. Beterov , Peng Xu , I. I. Ryabtsev

Programmable quantum systems based on Rydberg atom arrays have recently emerged as a promising testbed for combinatorial optimization. Indeed, the Maximum Weighted Independent Set problem on unit-disk graphs can be efficiently mapped to…

The Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization task that can be naturally mapped onto the Ising Hamiltonian of neutral atom quantum processors. Given its connection to NP-hard problems and real-world…

We describe and analyze an architecture for quantum optimization to solve maximum independent set (MIS) problems using neutral atom arrays trapped in optical tweezers. Optimizing independent sets is one of the paradigmatic, NP-hard problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Hannes Pichler , Sheng-Tao Wang , Leo Zhou , Soonwon Choi , Mikhail D. Lukin

Analog quantum computing with Rydberg atoms is seen as an avenue to solve hard graph optimization problems, because they naturally encode the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem on Unit-Disk (UD) graphs, a problem that admits rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Christian de Correc , Thomas Ayral , Corentin Bertrand

Neutral atom arrays have emerged as a versatile platform towards scalable quantum computation and optimization. In this paper we present demonstrations of solving maximum weighted independent set problems on a Rydberg atom array using…

One prominent application of near-term quantum computing devices is to solve combinatorial optimization such as non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problems. Here we present experiments with Rydberg atoms to solve one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Minhyuk Kim , Kangheun Kim , Jaeyong Hwang , Eun-Gook Moon , Jaewook Ahn

Rydberg atom arrays operated by a quantum adiabatic principle are among the most promising quantum simulating platforms due to their scalability and long coherence time. From the perspective of combinatorial optimization, they offer an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Hyeonjun Yeo , Ha Eum Kim , Kabgyun Jeong

We investigate the classical reducibility of random unit-disk graph (UDG) instances of the maximum independent set (MIS) and maximum weighted independent set (MWIS) problems, which can be natively realised in Rydberg atom quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 J. Kombe , J. D. Pritchard

We propose and implement a comprehensive quantum compilation toolkit for solving the maximum independent set (MIS) problem on quantum hardware based on Rydberg atom arrays. Our end-to-end pipeline involves three core components to…

Rydberg atom arrays are a promising platform for quantum optimization, encoding computationally hard problems by reducing them to independent set problems with unit-disk graph topology. In Nguyen et al., PRX Quantum 4, 010316 (2023), a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Xi-Wei Pan , Huan-Hai Zhou , Yi-Ming Lu , Jin-Guo Liu

Designing quantum algorithms with a speedup over their classical analogs is a central challenge in quantum information science. Motivated by recent experimental observations of a superlinear quantum speedup in solving the Maximum…

Neutral atom arrays have emerged as a versatile candidate for the embedding of hard classical optimization problems. Prior work has focused on mapping problems onto finding the maximum independent set of weighted or unweighted unit disk…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Toonyawat Angkhanawin , Aydin Deger , Jonathan D. Pritchard , C. Stuart Adams

Platforms of Rydberg atoms have been proposed as promising candidates to solve some combinatorial optimization problems. Here, we compute quantitative requirements on the system sizes and noise levels that these platforms must fulfill to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Michel Fabrice Serret , Bertrand Marchand , Thomas Ayral

Finding the maximum independent set (MIS) of a large-size graph is a nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP)-complete problem not efficiently solvable with classical computations. Here, we present a set of quantum adiabatic computing data of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Kangheun Kim , Minhyuk Kim , Juyoung Park , Andrew Byun , Jaewook Ahn

Quantum annealers can be used to solve many (possibly NP-hard) combinatorial optimization problems, by formulating them as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems or, equivalently, using the Ising formulation. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Alessandro Gherardi , Alberto Leporati

Rydberg atom arrays are a powerful platform for solving combinatorial optimization problems, owing to the Rydberg blockade mechanism, which imposes effective constraints on simultaneous atomic excitations. These constraints have enabled the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Elie Bermot , Lucia Valor , Wesley Coelho , Louis-Paul Henry , Natalie Pearson

Quantum annealing has shown significant potential as an approach to near-term quantum computing. Despite promising progress towards obtaining a quantum speedup, quantum annealers are limited by the need to embed problem instances within the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Richard Hua
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