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Combining quantum computers with classical compute power has become a standard means for developing algorithms that are eventually supposed to beat any purely classical alternatives. While in-principle advantages for solution quality or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Simon Thelen , Wolfgang Mauerer

Quantum computers, with parallel computing and entanglement effects, excel in cryptography analysis and big data processing. However, they are not fully developed yet, and their performance needs further evaluation. Traditional computer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Zili Chen

Shor's algorithm for factoring in polynomial time on a quantum computer\cite{Shor} gives an enormous advantage over all known classical factoring algorithm. We demonstrate how to factor products of large prime numbers using a compiled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 John A. Smolin , Graeme Smith , Alex Vargo

As we begin to reach the limits of classical computing, quantum computing has emerged as a technology that has captured the imagination of the scientific world. While for many years, the ability to execute quantum algorithms was only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Bela Bauer , Sergey Bravyi , Mario Motta , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We investigate the problem of factorization of large numbers on a quantum computer which we imagine to be realized within a linear ion trap. We derive upper bounds on the size of the numbers that can be factorized on such a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. B. Plenio , P. L. Knight

To date, research in quantum computation promises potential for outperforming classical heuristics in combinatorial optimization. However, when aiming at provable optimality, one has to rely on classical exact methods like integer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Friedrich Wagner , Jonas Nüßlein , Frauke Liers

Quantum Variational Circuits (QVCs) are often claimed as one of the most potent uses of both near term and long term quantum hardware. The standard approaches to optimizing these circuits rely on a classical system to compute the new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Owen Lockwood

Along with the development of quantum technology, finding useful applications of quantum computers has been a central pursuit. Despite various quantum algorithms have been developed, many of them often require strong input assumptions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Nhat A. Nghiem

Quantum computing is poised to dramatically change the computational landscape, worldwide. Quantum computers can solve complex problems that are, at least in some cases, beyond the ability of even advanced future classical-style computers.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Dominic Rosch-Grace , Jeremy Straub

We present a lattice algorithm specifically designed for some classical applications of lattice reduction. The applications are for lattice bases with a generalized knapsack-type structure, where the target vectors are boundably short. For…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2010-02-04 Mark Van Hoeij , Andrew Novocin

Combinatorial optimization is a broadly attractive area for potential quantum advantage, but no quantum algorithm has yet made the leap. Noise in quantum hardware remains a challenge, and more sophisticated quantum-classical algorithms are…

New algorithms for prime factorization that outperform the existing ones or take advantage of particular properties of the prime factors can have a practical impact on present implementations of cryptographic algorithms that rely on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Alberto Montina , Stefan Wolf

Combinatorial optimization is considered a promising class of problems in which quantum computers can show significant advantages. However, problems of practical relevance typically have more variables than current or foreseeable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Mathias Schmid , Naeimeh Mohseni , Michael J. Hartmann

It is known that quantum computers yield a speed-up for certain discrete problems. Here we want to know whether quantum computers are useful for continuous problems. We study the computation of the integral of functions from the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 Erich Novak

The canonical partition function approach was designed to avoid the overlap problem that affects the lattice simulations of nuclear matter at high density. The method employs the projections of the quark determinant on a fix quark number…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-01-21 Xiangfei Meng , Anyi Li , Andrei Alexandru , Keh-Fei Liu

The NP-hardness of the closest vector problem (CVP) is an important basis for quantum-secure cryptography, in much the same way that integer factorisation's conjectured hardness is at the foundation of cryptosystems like RSA. Recent work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Ben Priestley , Petros Wallden

Quantum computing promises to provide the next step up in computational power for diverse application areas. In this review, we examine the science behind the quantum hype, and the breakthroughs required to achieve true quantum advantage in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 R. Au-Yeung , B. Camino , O. Rathore , V. Kendon

Quantum computers promise to perform certain computations exponentially faster than any classical device. Precise control over their physical implementation and proper shielding from unwanted interactions with the environment become more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Thomas Häner , Torsten Hoefler , Matthias Troyer

The study of real-time evolution of lattice quantum field theories using classical computers is known to scale exponentially with the number of lattice sites. Due to a fundamentally different computational strategy, quantum computers hold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Christopher Kane , Dorota M. Grabowska , Benjamin Nachman , Christian W. Bauer

In these proceedings, we review recent advances in applying quantum computing to lattice field theory. Quantum computing offers the prospect to simulate lattice field theories in parameter regimes that are largely inaccessible with the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-10 Lena Funcke , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn