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We propose a definition of QNC, the quantum analog of the efficient parallel class NC. We exhibit several useful gadgets and prove that various classes of circuits can be parallelized to logarithmic depth, including circuits for encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Cristopher Moore , Martin Nilsson

Variational quantum algorithms have received substantial theoretical and empirical attention. As the underlying variational quantum circuit (VQC) can be represented by Fourier series that contain an exponentially large spectrum in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Maja Franz , Melvin Strobl , Leonid Chaichenets , Eileen Kuehn , Achim Streit , Wolfgang Mauerer

Demonstrating quantum advantage in machine learning tasks requires navigating a complex landscape of proposed models and algorithms. To bring clarity to this search, we introduce a framework that connects the structure of parametrized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sergi Masot-Llima , Elies Gil-Fuster , Carlos Bravo-Prieto , Jens Eisert , Tommaso Guaita

Reducing errors is essential for reliable quantum computation. Quantum error mitigation (QEM) and quantum error correction (QEC) are two leading approaches for this task, each with challenges: QEM suffers from high sampling costs and cannot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Sowmitra Das , Jinzhao Sun , Michael Hanks , Bálint Koczor , M. S. Kim

Alternative Current Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF) is essential for efficient power system planning and real-time operation but remains an NP-hard and non-convex optimization problem with significant computational challenges. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Ze Hu , Ziqing Zhu , Linghua Zhu , Xiang Wei , Siqi Bu , Ka Wing Chan

There is no unique way to encode a quantum algorithm into a quantum circuit. With limited qubit counts, connectivities, and coherence times, circuit optimization is essential to make the best use of near-term quantum devices. We introduce…

Random unitaries are a central object of study in quantum information, with applications to quantum computation, quantum many-body physics, and quantum cryptography. Recent work has constructed unitary designs and pseudorandom unitaries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Ben Foxman , Natalie Parham , Francisca Vasconcelos , Henry Yuen

Replacing the task of retrieval with exclusion changes how preparation contextuality manifests operationally under parity-oblivious constraints, with exclusion showing a quantum advantage where retrieval does not. We introduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Pritam Roy , Thansingh Jankawat , Ranendu Adhikary , A. S. Majumdar

A defining feature in the field of quantum computing is the potential of a quantum device to outperform its classical counterpart for a specific computational task. By now, several proposals exist showing that certain sampling problems can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Rawad Mezher , Joe Ghalbouni , Joseph Dgheim , Damian Markham

The MapReduce framework has firmly established itself as one of the most widely used parallel computing platforms for processing big data on tera- and peta-byte scale. Approaching it from a theoretical standpoint has proved to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Fabian Frei , Koichi Wada

We study the performance and resource usage of the variational quantum factoring (VQF) algorithm for different instance sizes and optimization algorithms. Our simulations show better chance of finding the ground state when using VQE rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Vivian Phan , Arttu Pönni , Matti Raasakka , Ilkka Tittonen

Nonlocality and its connections to entanglement are fundamental features of quantum mechanics that have found numerous applications in quantum information science. A set of correlations is said to be nonlocal if it cannot be reproduced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Khashayar Barooti , Alexandru Gheorghiu , Grzegorz Głuch , Marc-Olivier Renou

The neural network and quantum computing are both significant and appealing fields, with their interactive disciplines promising for large-scale computing tasks that are untackled by conventional computers. However, both developments are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Feihong Shen , Jun Liu

Quantum machine learning, focusing on quantum neural networks (QNNs), remains a vastly uncharted field of study. Current QNN models primarily employ variational circuits on an ansatz or a quantum feature map, often requiring multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Utkarsh Singh , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

Several classes of quantum circuits have been shown to provide a quantum computational advantage under certain assumptions. The study of ever more restricted classes of quantum circuits capable of quantum advantage is motivated by possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Michael de Oliveira , Luís S. Barbosa , Ernesto F. Galvão

The standard formulation of quantum theory assumes that events are ordered is a background global causal structure. Recently in Ref.[$\href{http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n10/full/ncomms2076.html}{Nat. Commun. {\bf3}, 1092…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 Some Sankar Bhattacharya , Manik Banik

With the progression into the quantum utility era, computing is shifting toward quantum-centric architectures, where multiple quantum processors collaborate with classical computing resources. Platforms such as IBM Quantum and Amazon Braket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Jinyang Li , Yuhong Song , Yipei Liu , Jianli Pan , Lei Yang , Travis Humble , Weiwen Jiang

Simulating quantum circuits (QC) on high-performance computing (HPC) systems has become an essential method to benchmark algorithms and probe the potential of large-scale quantum computation despite the limitations of current quantum…

One of the main goals in quantum circuit optimisation is to reduce the number of ancillary qubits and the depth of computation, to obtain robust computation. However, most of known techniques, based on local rewriting rules, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Raphael Dias da Silva , Einar Pius , Elham Kashefi

Deviations from classical physics when distant quantum systems become correlated are interesting both fundamentally and operationally. There exist situations where the correlations enable collaborative tasks that are impossible within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Farid Shahandeh , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph