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Quantum computing (QC) has gained popularity due to its unique capabilities that are quite different from that of classical computers in terms of speed and methods of operations. This paper proposes hybrid models and methods that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Akshay Ajagekar , Travis Humble , Fengqi You

This paper introduces a novel quantum embedding search algorithm (QES, pronounced as "quest"), enabling search for optimal quantum embedding design for a specific dataset of interest. First, we establish the connection between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Nam Nguyen , Kwang-Chen Chen

We propose a Global-Local optimization algorithm for quantum control that combines standard local search methodologies with evolutionary algorithms. This allows us to find faster solutions to a set of problems relating to ultracold control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Jens Jakob Sørensen , Mikel Aranburu , Till Heinzel , Jacob Sherson

In practice, objective functions of real-time control systems can have multiple local minimums or can dramatically change over the function space, making them hard to optimize. To efficiently optimize such systems, in this paper, we develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Haowei Wang , Songhao Wang , Qun Meng , Szu Hui Ng

A quantum algorithm for combinatorial search is presented that provides a simple framework for utilizing search heuristics. The algorithm is evaluated in a new case that is an unstructured version of the graph coloring problem. It performs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Tad Hogg

In this paper, we present the Parallel Quantum Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree (Pq-RRT) algorithm, a parallel version of the Quantum Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees (q-RRT) algorithm. Parallel Quantum RRT is a parallel quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Paul Lathrop , Beth Boardman , Sonia Martínez

Hybrid optimization algorithms have gained popularity as it has become apparent there cannot be a universal optimization strategy which is globally more beneficial than any other. Despite their popularity, hybridization frameworks require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Hassan A. Bashir , Richard S. Neville

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) utilize a hybrid quantum-classical architecture to recast problems of high-dimensional linear algebra as ones of stochastic optimization. Despite the promise of leveraging near- to intermediate-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Oliver Knitter , James Stokes , Shravan Veerapaneni

The class PLS (Polynomial Local Search) captures the complexity of finding a solution that is locally optimal and has proven to be an important concept in the theory of local search. It has been shown that local search versions of various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yutaro Yamaguchi

Quantum computing has noteworthy speedup over classical computing by taking advantage of quantum parallelism, i.e., the superposition of states. In particular, quantum search is widely used in various computationally hard problems. Grover's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Ji Liu , Huiyang Zhou

This paper presents the details and testing of two implementations (in C++ and Python) of the hybrid quantum-classical algorithm Quantum Annealing Learning Search (QALS) on a D-Wave quantum annealer. QALS was proposed in 2019 as a novel…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Andrea Bonomi , Thomas De Min , Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Valter Cavecchia , Davide Pastorello

Quantum linear system (QLS) algorithms offer the potential to solve large-scale linear systems exponentially faster than classical methods. However, applying QLS algorithms to real-world problems remains challenging due to issues such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Austin Pechan , John Golden , Daniel O'Malley

Emerging quantum processors provide an opportunity to explore new approaches for solving traditional problems in the post Moore's law supercomputing era. However, the limited number of qubits makes it infeasible to tackle massive real-world…

Quantum linear system algorithms (QLSAs) for gate-based quantum computing can provide exponential speedups for solving linear systems but face challenges when applied to finite element problems due to the growth of the condition number with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Osama Muhammad Raisuddin , Suvranu De

The efficient resolution of optimization problems is one of the key issues in today's industry. This task relies mainly on classical algorithms that present scalability problems and processing limitations. Quantum computing has emerged to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Roberto Campos , Pablo A M Casares , M A Martin-Delgado

Quantum Support Vector Machines (QSVM) play a vital role in using quantum resources for supervised machine learning tasks, such as classification. However, current methods are strongly limited in terms of scalability on Noisy Intermediate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Jianming Yi , Kalyani Suresh , Ali Moghiseh , Norbert Wehn

Quantum search has emerged as one of the most promising fields in quantum computing. State-of-the-art quantum search algorithms enable the search for specific elements in a distribution by monotonically increasing the density of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Rodolphe Griset , Ioannis Lavdas , Jiri Guth Jarkovsky

In this paper we propose a new parallel algorithm for solving global optimization (GO) multidimensional problems. The method unifies two powerful approaches for accelerating the search: parallel computations and local tuning on the behavior…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-31 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

Recently, several claims have been made that certain fundamental problems of distributed computing, including Leader Election and Distributed Consensus, begin to admit feasible and efficient solutions when the model of distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-09 Cyril Gavoille , Adrian Kosowski , Marcin Markiewicz

We introduce an optimisation method for variational quantum algorithms and experimentally demonstrate a 100-fold improvement in efficiency compared to naive implementations. The effectiveness of our approach is shown by obtaining…