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The D-Wave quantum annealing machine can quickly find the optimal solution for quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO). One of the applications where the use of quantum annealing is desired is in problems requiring rapid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Reo Shikanai , Masayuki Ohzeki , Kazuyuki Tanaka

Here, we present two complementary approaches that advance quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) toward practical use in data-driven materials design and other real-valued black-box optimization tasks. First, we introduce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-15 Thomas Plehn , Daniel Barragan-Yani , Eric Breitbarth , Guillermo Requena , David Melching

We benchmark current annealing-based optimization workflows on a greenhouse-inspired quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem for binary heater scheduling, where the horizon H denotes the number of hourly control decisions. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Hamzeh Alavirad , Maryam Bahrami Zanjani

Quantum computing offers significant potential for solving NP-hard combinatorial (optimization) problems that are beyond the reach of classical computers. One way to tap into this potential is by reformulating combinatorial problems as a…

Quantum computing has emerged as a promising alternative for solving combinatorial optimization problems. The standard approach for encoding optimization problems on quantum processing units (QPUs) involves transforming them into their…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Meerzhan Kanatbekova , Vincenzo De Maio , Ivona Brandic

Combinatorial optimization problems, integral to various scientific and industrial applications, often vary significantly in their complexity and computational difficulty. Transforming such problems into Quadratic Unconstrained Binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Thore Gerlach , Sascha Mücke

One of the current major challenges surrounding the use of quantum annealers for solving practical optimization problems is their inability to encode even moderately sized problems---the main reason for this being the rigid layout of their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Itay Hen , Marcelo S. Sarandy

Quantum annealing (QA) is a method for solving combinatorial optimization problems. We can estimate the computational time for QA using the adiabatic condition. The adiabatic condition consists of two parts: an energy gap and a transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Hiroshi Hayasaka , Takashi Imoto , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Shiro Kawabata

Constrained binary optimization aims to find an optimal assignment to minimize or maximize the objective meanwhile satisfying the constraints, which is a representative NP problem in various domains, including transportation, scheduling,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Debin Xiang , Qifan Jiang , Liqiang Lu , Siwei Tan , Jianwei Yin

We introduce parity quantum optimization with the aim of solving optimization problems consisting of arbitrary $k$-body interactions and side conditions using planar quantum chip architectures. The method introduces a decomposition of the…

In recent years, there is a growing interest in using quantum computers for solving combinatorial optimization problems. In this work, we developed a generic, machine learning-based framework for mapping continuous-space inverse design…

Quantum annealing devices such as the ones produced by D-Wave systems are typically used for solving optimization and sampling tasks, and in both academia and industry the characterization of their usefulness is subject to active research.…

Although quantum computing hardware has evolved significantly in recent years, spurred by increasing industrial and government interest, the size limitation of current generation quantum computers remains an obstacle when applying these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Gideon Bass , Max Henderson , Joshua Heath , Joseph Dulny

Developing quantum algorithms adaptive to specific constraints of near-term devices is an essential step towards practical quantum advantage. In a recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 103601(2023)], we show cold atoms in an optical cavity can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Yuchen Luo , Xiaopeng Li , Jian Lin

QRAO (Quantum Random Access Optimization) is a relaxation algorithm that reduces the number of qubits required to solve a problem by encoding multiple variables per qubit using QRAC (Quantum Random Access Code). Reducing the number of…

The ultimate goal of any sparse coding method is to accurately recover from a few noisy linear measurements, an unknown sparse vector. Unfortunately, this estimation problem is NP-hard in general, and it is therefore always approached with…

Digital Annealer (DA) is a computer architecture designed for tackling combinatorial optimization problems formulated as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) models. In this paper, we present the results of an extensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Oylum Şeker , Neda Tanoumand , Merve Bodur

In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm that supports a real-valued higher-order unconstrained binary optimization (HUBO) problem. This algorithm is based on the Grover adaptive search that originally supported HUBO with integer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Masaya Norimoto , Ryuhei Mori , Naoki Ishikawa

Quantum computers leverage the principles of quantum mechanics to do computation with a potential advantage over classical computers. While a single classical computer transforms one particular binary input into an output after applying one…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Francisco Chicano , Gabiel Luque , Zakaria Abdelmoiz Dahi , Rodrigo Gil-Merino

We are interested in benchmarking both quantum annealing and classical algorithms for minimizing Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. Such problems are NP-hard in general, implying that the exact minima of randomly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Georg Hahn , Elijah Pelofske , Hristo N. Djidjev