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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

Motivated by recent progress in quantum hardware and algorithms researchers have developed quantum heuristics for optimization problems, aiming for advantages over classical methods. To date, quantum hardware is still error-prone and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Friedrich Wagner , Frauke Liers

Quantum annealers offer a promising approach to solve Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems, which have a wide range of applications. However, when a user submits its QUBO problem to a third-party quantum annealer, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Moyang Xie , Yuan Zhang , Sheng Zhong , Qun Li

Several combinatorial optimization problems can be solved with NISQ devices once that a corresponding quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) form is derived. The aim of this work is to drastically reduce the variables needed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Dario De Santis , Salvatore Tirone , Stefano Marmi , Vittorio Giovannetti

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.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Van-Dung Nguyen , Ling Wu , Françoise Remacle , Ludovic Noels

Quantum annealers can solve QUBO problems efficiently but struggle with continuous optimization tasks like regression due to their discrete nature. We introduce Quadratic Continuous Quantum Optimization (QCQO), an anytime algorithm that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Sascha Mücke , Thore Gerlach , Nico Piatkowski

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

We propose a new kernel that quantifies success for the task of computing a core-periphery partition for an undirected network. Finding the associated optimal partitioning may be expressed in the form of a quadratic unconstrained binary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Catherine F. Higham , Desmond J. Higham , Francesco Tudisco

We illustrate the adiabatic quantum computing solution of the knapsack problem with both integer profits and weights. For problems with $n$ objects (or items) and integer capacity $c$, we give specific examples using both an Ising class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 Mark W. Coffey

We present a method that integrates any quantum algorithm capable of finding solutions to integer linear programs into the Branch-and-Price algorithm, which is regularly used to solve large-scale integer linear programs with a specific…

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 annealers are specialized quantum computers for solving combinatorial optimization problems using special characteristics of quantum computing (QC), such as superposition, entanglement, and quantum tunneling. Theoretically, quantum…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xinyi Wang , Asmar Muqeet , Tao Yue , Shaukat Ali , Paolo Arcaini

In the current NISQ-era, one of the major challenges faced by researchers and practitioners lies in figuring out how to combine quantum and classical computing in the most efficient and innovative way. In this paper, we present a mechanism…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Eneko Osaba , Esther Villar-Rodriguez , Antón Asla

This paper studies the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem (HCP) and the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) on D-Wave's quantum systems. Initially, motivated by the fact that most libraries present their benchmark instances in terms of adjacency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Evangelos Stogiannos , Christos Papalitsas , Theodore Andronikos

A combinatorial optimization problem is to find an optimal solution under the constraints. This is one of the potential applications for quantum computers. Quantum Random Access Optimization (QRAO) is the quantum optimization algorithm that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Hiromichi Matsuyama , Wei-hao Huang , Kohji Nishimura , Yu Yamashiro

We present the mapping of a class of simplified air traffic management (ATM) problems (strategic conflict resolution) to quadratic unconstrained boolean optimization (QUBO) problems. The mapping is performed through an original…

The Closest String Problem is an NP-complete problem which appears more commonly in bioinformatics and coding theory. Less surprisingly, classical approaches have been pursued with two prominent algorithms being the genetic algorithm and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Chandeepa Dissanayake

During recent years, quantum computers have received increasing attention, primarily due to their ability to significantly increase computational performance for specific problems. Computational performance could be improved for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Ludger Leenders , Martin Sollich , Christiane Reinert , André Bardow

We evaluate the application of quantum annealing (QA) to a real-world combinatorial optimisation problem-room scheduling for sports camps at the Australian Institute of Sport-using both classical and quantum approaches. Due to current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Krzysztof Giergiel , Y. Sam Yang , Anthony B. Murphy

Quantum annealers offer an efficient way to compute high quality solutions of NP-hard problems when expressed in a QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization) or an Ising form. This is done by mapping a problem onto the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev