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Artificial neural networks have been proposed as potential algorithms that could benefit from being implemented and run on quantum computers. In particular, they hold promise to greatly enhance Artificial Intelligence tasks, such as image…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Stefano Mangini , Francesco Tacchino , Dario Gerace , Chiara Macchiavello , Daniele Bajoni

Unitarity serves as a fundamental concept for characterizing linear and conservative wave phenomena in both classical and quantum systems. Developing platforms that perform unitary operations on light waves in a uni-versal and programmable…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kyuho Kim , Kunwoo Park , Hyungchul Park , Sunkyu Yu , Namkyoo Park , Xianji Piao

We propose a linear optical quantum computation scheme using time-frequency degree of freedom. In this scheme, a qubit is encoded in single-photon frequency combs, and manipulation of the qubits is performed using time-resolving detectors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Tomohiro Yamazaki , Tomoaki Arizono , Toshiki Kobayashi , Rikizo Ikuta , Takashi Yamamoto

The construction of robust and scalable quantum gates is a uniquely hard problem in the field of quantum computing. Real-world quantum computers suffer from many forms of noise, characterized by the decoherence and relaxation times of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Diego Fuentealba , Jack Dahn , James Steck , Elizabeth Behrman

Accurately predicting a quantum computer's capability -- which circuits it can run and how well it can run them -- is a foundational goal of quantum characterization and benchmarking. As modern quantum computers become increasingly hard to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Daniel Hothem , Kevin Young , Tommie Catanach , Timothy Proctor

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) encounter significant challenges in realizing nonlinear behavior and effectively optimizing parameters. This study addresses these issues by modeling nonlinearity through a Taylor series expansion, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Ding-Dang Yang

We design optimal interferometric schemes for implementation of two-qubit linear optical quantum filters diagonal in the computational basis. The filtering is realized by interference of the two photons encoding the qubits in a multiport…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Jaromír Fiurášek , Robert Stárek , Michal Mičuda

Knill, Laflamme, and Milburn (KLM) proved that it is possible to build a scalable universal quantum computer using only linear-optics elements and conditional dynamics [Nature (London) {\bf 409}, 46 (2001)\cite{Knill}]. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Kaoru Sanaka , Kevin Resch

The successful development of future photonic quantum technologies heavily depends on the possibility of realizing robust, reliable and, crucially, scalable nanophotonic devices. In integrated networks, quantum emitters can be deployed as…

Model compression, such as pruning and quantization, has been widely applied to optimize neural networks on resource-limited classical devices. Recently, there are growing interest in variational quantum circuits (VQC), that is, a type of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Zhirui Hu , Peiyan Dong , Zhepeng Wang , Youzuo Lin , Yanzhi Wang , Weiwen Jiang

Quantum kernel methods (QKMs) have emerged as a prominent framework for supervised quantum machine learning. Unlike variational quantum algorithms, which rely on gradient-based optimisation and may suffer from issues such as barren…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 John Tanner , Chon-Fai Kam , Jingbo Wang

We develop a layered quantum computer architecture, which is a systematic framework for tackling the individual challenges of developing a quantum computer while constructing a cohesive device design. We discuss many of the prominent…

Optomechanical systems provide a unique platform for observing quantum behavior of macroscopic objects. However, efforts towards realizing nonlinear behavior at the single photon level have been inhibited by the small size of the radiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Xunnong Xu , Michael Gullans , Jacob M. Taylor

In this work, an analysis of the performance of different Variational Quantum Circuits is presented, investigating how it changes with respect to entanglement topology, adopted gates, and Quantum Machine Learning tasks to be performed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Marco Mordacci , Michele Amoretti

In recent years, neural networks (NNs) have driven significant advances in machine learning. However, as tasks grow more complex, NNs often require large numbers of trainable parameters, which increases computational and energy demands.…

Quantum kernels hold significant promise for achieving computational advantages in quantum machine learning (QML), yet their effectiveness critically depends on the design of expressive and hardware-compatible feature maps, a challenge that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Fanxu Meng , Yuxiang Liu , Lu Wang , Sixuan Li , Xutao Yu , Zaichen Zhang

Quantum neural networks generalize classical artificial neural networks into the quantum domain. They are formulated as parameterized quantum circuits which are optimized by measuring and minimizing a suitably chosen loss function. The core…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Mario Boneberg , Simon Kochsiek , Igor Lesanovsky

Non-unitary protocols are already at the base of many hybrid quantum computing applications, especially in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era where quantum errors typically affect the unitary evolution. However, while the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Giuseppe Clemente , Kevin Zambello

Machine Learning with deep neural networks has transformed computational approaches to scientific and engineering problems. Central to many of these advancements are precisely tuned neural architectures that are tailored to the domains in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Mathias Weiden , Justin Kalloor , John Kubiatowicz , Costin Iancu

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a common technique to scan brains for strokes, tumors, and other abnormalities that cause forms of dementia. However, correctly diagnosing forms of dementia from MRIs is difficult, as nearly 1 in 3…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Ryan Kim