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The design of a scalable Quantum Control Architecture (QCA) faces two primary challenges. First, the continuous growth in qubit counts has rendered distributed QCA inevitable, yet the nondeterministic latencies inherent in feedback loops…

We introduce CL-QAS, a continual quantum architecture search framework that mitigates the challenges of costly amplitude encoding and catastrophic forgetting in variational quantum circuits. The method uses Tensor-Train encoding to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Jun Qi , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Javier Tejedor , Ling Li , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Real-world optimization problems must undergo a series of transformations before becoming solvable on current quantum hardware. Even for a fixed problem, the number of possible transformation paths -- from industry-relevant formulations…

Differential equations (DEs) serve as the cornerstone for a wide range of scientific endeavors, their solutions weaving through the core of diverse fields such as structural engineering, fluid dynamics, and financial modeling. DEs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Josephine Hunout , Sylvain Laizet , Lorenzo Iannucci

Distributed Stream Processing (DSP) systems are capable of processing large streams of unbounded data, offering high throughput and low latencies. To maintain a stable Quality of Service (QoS), these systems require a sufficient allocation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Benjamin J. J. Pfister , Dominik Scheinert , Morgan K. Geldenhuys , Odej Kao

We study a stochastic single-machine scheduling problem, denoted the Unreliable Job Selection and Sequencing Problem (UJSSP). Given a set of jobs, a subset must be selected for processing on a single machine that is subject to failure. Each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Alessandro Agnetis , Roel Leus , Emmeline Perneel , Ilaria Salvadori

This paper explores the application of variational quantum circuits (VQCs) for solving offline contextual bandit problems in industrial optimization tasks. Using the Industrial Benchmark (IB) environment, we evaluate the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Lukas Schulte , Daniel Hein , Steffen Udluft , Thomas A. Runkler

Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) has gained significant attention due to the potential of deep learning to efficiently solve combinatorial optimization problems. NCO has been widely applied to job shop scheduling problems (JSPs) with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Igor G. Smit , Yaoxin Wu , Pavel Troubil , Yingqian Zhang , Wim P. M. Nuijten

Eigenstate preparation is ubiquitous in quantum computing, and a standard approach for generating the lowest-energy states of a given system is by employing adiabatic state preparation (ASP). In the present work, we investigate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Shunji Matsuura , Samantha Buck , Valentin Senicourt , Arman Zaribafiyan

Quantum optimization holds promise for addressing classically intractable combinatorial problems, yet a standardized framework for benchmarking its performance, particularly in terms of solution quality, computational speed, and scalability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Monit Sharma , Hoong Chuin Lau

In the standard circuit model of quantum computation, the number and quality of the quantum gates composing the circuit influence the runtime and fidelity of the computation. The fidelity of the decomposition of quantum algorithms,…

Quantum computing is an emerging topic in engineering that promises to enhance supercomputing using fundamental physics. In the near term, the best candidate algorithms for achieving this advantage are variational quantum algorithms (VQAs).…

The time-critical industrial applications pose intense demands for enabling long-distance deterministic networks. However, previous priority-based and weight-based scheduling methods focus on probabilistically reducing average delay, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yudong Huang , Shuo Wang , Shiyin Zhu , Guoyu Peng , Xinyuan Zhang , Tao Huang , Xinmin Liu

We present a quantum optimization framework for the Shipment Selection Problem (SSP) in electric freight logistics, developed jointly by IonQ and Einride. Idle gaps arising from stochastic shipment cancellations reduce fleet utilization and…

Quantum optimization as a field has largely been restricted by the constraints of current quantum computing hardware, as limitations on size, performance, and fidelity mean most non-trivial problem instances won't fit on quantum devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Ibrahim Cameron , Teague Tomesh , Zain Saleem , Ilya Safro

Finding the solution to linear systems is at the heart of many applications in science and technology. Over the years a number of algorithms have been proposed to solve this problem on a digital quantum device, yet most of these are too…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Francesco Ghisoni , Francesco Scala , Daniele Bajoni , Dario Gerace

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are crucial for modeling various physical phenomena such as heat transfer, fluid flow, and electromagnetic waves. In computer-aided engineering (CAE), the ability to handle fine resolutions and large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Yuki Sato , Hiroyuki Tezuka , Ruho Kondo , Naoki Yamamoto

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as a promising near-term technique to explore practical quantum advantage on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. However, the inefficient parameter training process due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Yun-Fei Niu , Shuo Zhang , Chen Ding , Wan-Su Bao , He-Liang Huang

The computational capabilities of near-term quantum computers are limited by the noisy execution of gate operations and a limited number of physical qubits. Hybrid variational algorithms are well-suited to near-term quantum devices because…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-09 Teague Tomesh , Nicholas Allen , Daniel Dilley , Zain Saleem

Scaling quantum computers, i.e., quantum processing units (QPUs) to enable the execution of large quantum circuits is a major challenge, especially for applications that should provide a quantum advantage over classical algorithms. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Leo Sünkel , Jonas Stein , Jonas Nüßlein , Tobias Rohe , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien