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This paper presents a novel framework for enhancing the quantum resistance of NTRUEncrypt using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. We establish formal bounds on sampling efficiency and provide security reductions to lattice problems,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Gautier-Edouard Filardo , Thibaut Heckmann

The standard quantum annealing algorithm tries to approach the ground state of a classical system by slowly decreasing the hopping rates of a quantum random walk in the configuration space of the problem, where the on-site energies are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-12-26 A. Ramezanpour

The problem of sampling from the stationary distribution of a Markov chain finds widespread applications in a variety of fields. The time required for a Markov chain to converge to its stationary distribution is known as the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Shantanav Chakraborty , Kyle Luh , Jérémie Roland

We investigate the applicability of Quasi-Monte Carlo methods to Euclidean lattice systems for quantum mechanics in order to improve the asymptotic error behavior of observables for such theories. In most cases the error of an observable…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-19 K. Jansen , H. Leovey , A. Ammon , A. Griewank , M. Müller-Preussker

Matrix scaling is a simple to state, yet widely applicable linear-algebraic problem: the goal is to scale the rows and columns of a given non-negative matrix such that the rescaled matrix has prescribed row and column sums. Motivated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Sander Gribling , Harold Nieuwboer

Quantum computers have a potential for solving quantum chemistry problems with higher accuracy than classical computers. Quantum computing quantum Monte Carlo (QC-QMC) is a QMC with a trial state prepared in quantum circuit, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Shu Kanno , Hajime Nakamura , Takao Kobayashi , Shigeki Gocho , Miho Hatanaka , Naoki Yamamoto , Qi Gao

In the context of Monte Carlo sampling for lattice models, the complexity of the energy landscape often leads to Markov chains being trapped in local optima, thereby increasing the correlation between samples and reducing sampling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-29 Jiewei Ding , Jiahao Su , Ho-Kin Tang , Wing Chi Yu

Recently, Huggins et. al. [Nature, 603, 416-420 (2022)] devised a general projective Quantum Monte Carlo method suitable for implementation on quantum computers. This hybrid approach, however, relies on a subroutine -the computation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Guglielmo Mazzola , Giuseppe Carleo

Quantum computers (QCs) must implement quantum error correcting codes (QECCs) to protect their logical qubits from errors, and modeling the effectiveness of QECCs on QCs is an important problem for evaluating the QC architecture. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Chi , Stephen A. Lyon , Margaret Martonosi

The wave-function Monte-Carlo method, also referred to as the use of "quantum-jump trajectories", allows efficient simulation of open systems by independently tracking the evolution of many pure-state "trajectories". This method is ideally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Michael H. Goerz , Kurt Jacobs

One of the open challenges in quantum computing is to find meaningful and practical methods to leverage quantum computation to accelerate classical machine learning workflows. A ubiquitous problem in machine learning workflows is sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Owen Lockwood , Peter Weiss , Filip Aronshtein , Guillaume Verdon

Szegedy's quantization of a reversible Markov chain provides a quantum walk whose spectral gap is quadratically larger than that of the classical walk. Quantum computers are therefore expected to provide a speedup of Metropolis-Hastings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Baptiste Claudon , Pablo Rodenas-Ruiz , Jean-Philip Piquemal , Pierre Monmarché

This series of six lectures is an introduction to using the Monte Carlo method to carry out nonperturbative studies in quantum field theories. Path integrals in quantum field theory are reviewed, and their evaluation by the Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Colin Morningstar

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) employ artificial neural networks to encode many-body wave functions in second quantization through variational Monte Carlo (VMC). They have recently been applied to accurately describe electronic wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Chang-su Cao , Dingshun Lv , Han-Shi Hu

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods offer exact solutions for quantum many-body systems but face severe limitations in fermionic systems like atomic nuclei due to the sign problem. While sign-problem-free QMC algorithms exist and provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhong-Wang Niu , Bing-Nan Lu

Computational methods both open the frontiers of economic analysis and serve as a bottleneck in what can be achieved. We are the first to study whether Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm can improve the runtime of economic applications and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Vladimir Skavysh , Sofia Priazhkina , Diego Guala , Thomas R. Bromley

Atomistic simulations provide valuable insights into the physical processes governing material behavior. However, their applicability is fundamentally constrained by the limited time scales accessible to brute-force simulations. This…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Michael Kim , Wei Cai

Quantum computing was so far mainly concerned with discrete problems. Recently, E. Novak and the author studied quantum algorithms for high dimensional integration and dealt with the question, which advantages quantum computing can bring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Stefan Heinrich

We describe a number of strategies for minimizing and calculating accurately the statistical uncertainty in quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We investigate the impact of the sampling algorithm on the efficiency of the variational Monte…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 R. M. Lee , G. J. Conduit , N. Nemec , P. Lopez Rios , N. D. Drummond

Monte Carlo particle transport codes are well established on classical hardware and are considered as the reference tool for nuclear applications. In a growing number of domains, the design of algorithms is progressively shifting towards…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Noé Olivier , Michel Nowak