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There is a strong interest in finding challenging instances of NP-hard problems, from the perspective of showing quantum advantage. Due to the limits of near-term NISQ devices, it is moreover useful if these instances are small. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Reuben Tate , Swati Gupta

In a recent study (Ref. [1]), quantum annealing was reported to exhibit a scaling advantage for approximately solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO). However, this claim critically depends on the choice of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 J. Pawlowski , P. Tarasiuk , J. Tuziemski , L. Pawela , B. Gardas

Maximum cut (Max-Cut) problem is one of the most important combinatorial optimization problems because of its various applications in real life, and recently Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) has been widely employed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Yiren Lu , Guojing Tian , Xiaoming Sun

We investigate the space complexity of two graph streaming problems: Max-Cut and its quantum analogue, Quantum Max-Cut. Previous work by Kapralov and Krachun [STOC `19] resolved the classical complexity of the \emph{classical} problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 John Kallaugher , Ojas Parekh

The standard notion of a classical limit, represented schematically by $\hbar\rightarrow 0$, provides a method for approximating a quantum system by a classical one. In this work we explain why the standard classical limit fails when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Isaac Layton , Jonathan Oppenheim

Quantum Max Cut (QMC), also known as the quantum anti-ferromagnetic Heisenberg model, is a QMA-complete problem relevant to quantum many-body physics and computer science. Semidefinite programming relaxations have been fruitful in designing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Felix Huber , Kevin Thompson , Ojas Parekh , Sevag Gharibian

Gate model quantum computers with too many qubits to be simulated by available classical computers are about to arrive. We present a strategy for programming these devices without error correction or compilation. This means that the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 E. Farhi , J. Goldstone , S. Gutmann , H. Neven

Regarding the limit hbar-->0 as the classical limit of quantum mechanics seems to be silly because hbar is a definite constant of physics, but it was successfully used in the derivation of the WKB approximation. A superseded version of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wang Guowen

Local tensor methods are a class of optimization algorithms that was introduced in [Hastings,arXiv:1905.07047v2][1] as a classical analogue of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). These algorithms treat the cost function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Aniruddha Bapat , Stephen P. Jordan

Large-$S$ and large-$N$ theories (spin value $S$ and spinor component number $N$) are complementary, and sometimes conflicting, approaches to quantum magnetism. While large-$S$ spin-wave theory captures the correct semiclassical behavior,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 Shang-Shun Zhang , E. A. Ghioldi , Yoshitomo Kamiya , L. O. Manuel , A. E. Trumper , C. D. Batista

This research explores the integration of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) into Hybrid Quantum-HPC systems for solving the Max-Cut problem, comparing its performance with classical algorithms like brute-force search and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Ishan Patwardhan , Akhil Akkapelli

In a second seminal paper on the application of semidefinite programming to graph partitioning problems, Goemans and Williamson showed how to formulate and round a complex semidefinite program to give what is to date still the best-known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Alantha Newman

The Quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a leading hybrid classical-quantum algorithm for solving complex combinatorial optimization problems. QAOA-in-QAOA (QAOA^2) uses a divide-and-conquer heuristic to solve large-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Aniello Esposito , Tamuz Danzig

The numerical treatment of quantum mechanics in the semi-classical regime is known to be computationally demanding, due to the highly oscillatory behaviour of the wave function and its large spatial extension. A recently proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Christoph Nölle

Building on the blueprint from Goemans and Williamson (1995) for the Max-Cut problem, we construct a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for orthogonally constrained quadratic optimization problems. First, we derive a semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

In the search for quantum advantage in real--world problems, one promising avenue is to use a quantum algorithm to improve on the solution found using an efficient classical algorithm. The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Yunlong Yu , Xiang-Bin Wang , Nic Shannon , Robert Joynt

In Loop Quantum Gravity, the quantum action of the volume operator is crucial in understanding quantum dynamics. In this work, we implement a generalized numerical algorithm that can compute the quantum action of the volume operator on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Haida Li , Hongguang Liu

We propose a method for obtaining effective classical Hamiltonians \cal H for many-body quantum spin systems with large spins. This method uses the coherent-state representation of the partition function Z and the cumulant expansion in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Garanin , K. Kladko , P. Fulde

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…

We report a cluster of results regarding the difficulty of finding approximate ground states to typical instances of the quantum satisfiability problem $k$-QSAT on large random graphs. As an approximation strategy, we optimize the solution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-27 B. Hsu , C. R. Laumann , A. Laeuchli , R. Moessner , S. L. Sondhi