English
Related papers

Related papers: Ladder Operator Block-Encoding

200 papers

Fault-tolerant quantum computation demands significant resources: large numbers of physical qubits must be checked for errors repeatedly to protect quantum data as logic gates are implemented in the presence of noise. We demonstrate that an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Felix Thomsen , Markus S. Kesselring , Stephen D. Bartlett , Benjamin J. Brown

A compelling application of quantum computers with thousands of qubits is quantum simulation. Simulating fermionic systems is both a problem with clear real-world applications and a computationally challenging task. In order to simulate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Emiliia Dyrenkova , Raymond Laflamme , Michael Vasmer

Quantum circuits naturally implement unitary operations on input quantum states. However, non-unitary operations can also be implemented through block encodings, where additional ancilla qubits are introduced and later measured. While block…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Martina Nibbi , Filippo Della Chiara , Yizhi Shen , Aaron Szasz , Roel Van Beeumen

Positional encoding is essential for large language models (LLMs) to represent sequence order, yet recent studies show that Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) can induce massive activation. We investigate the source of these instabilities via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jing Xiong , Liyang Fan , Hui Shen , Zunhai Su , Min Yang , Lingpeng Kong , Ngai Wong

The success of quantum physics in description of various physical interaction phenomena relies primarily on the accuracy of analytical methods used. In quantum mechanics, many of such interactions such as those found in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Sina Khorasani

In recent work [arXiv:2003.06939v2] a novel fermion to qubit mapping -- called the compact encoding -- was introduced which outperforms all previous local mappings in both the qubit to mode ratio, and the locality of mapped operators. There…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Charles Derby , Joel Klassen

Discrete Laplacian operators arise ubiquitously in scientific computing and frequently appear in quantum algorithms for tasks such as linear algebra, Hamiltonian simulation, and partial differential equations. Block encoding provides the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Alexandre Boutot , Viraj Dsouza

This paper reveals that large language models (LLMs), despite being trained solely on textual data, are surprisingly strong encoders for purely visual tasks in the absence of language. Even more intriguingly, this can be achieved by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ziqi Pang , Ziyang Xie , Yunze Man , Yu-Xiong Wang

To enable fault tolerance on millions of qubits in real time, scalable decoding is necessary, which motivates this paper. Existing decoding algorithms (decoders), such as clustering, matching, belief propagation (BP), and neural networks,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yanzhang Zhu , Chen-Yu Peng , Yun Hao Chen , Yeong-Luh Ueng , Di Wu

Bosonic systems offer unique advantages for quantum error correction, as a single bosonic mode provides a large Hilbert space to redundantly encode quantum information. However, previous studies have been limited to exploiting symmetries in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Dong-Long Hu , Weizhou Cai , Chang-Ling Zou , Ze-Liang Xiang

Pauli Correlation Encoding (PCE) is as a qubit-efficient variational approach to combinatorial optimization problems. The method offers a polynomial reduction in qubit count and a super-polynomial suppression of barren plateaus. Here, we…

Fermionic Linear Optics (FLO) is a restricted model of quantum computation which in its original form is known to be efficiently classically simulable. We show that, when initialized with suitable input states, FLO circuits can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Michał Oszmaniec , Ninnat Dangniam , Mauro E. S. Morales , Zoltán Zimborás

There are several improvements proposed over the baseline Absolute Positional Encoding (APE) method used in original transformer. In this study, we aim to investigate the implications of inadequately representing positional encoding in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Arpit Aggarwal

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on positional encodings to provide sequence position information to their attention mechanism. Rotary Positional Encodings (RoPE), which encode relative position by rotating queries and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 André Jonasson

Quantum simulations of fermionic many-body systems crucially rely on mappings from indistinguishable fermions to distinguishable qubits. The non-local structure of fermionic Fock space necessitates encodings that either map local fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Johannes Bausch , Toby Cubitt , Charles Derby , Joel Klassen

Simulating electronic structure on a quantum computer requires encoding of fermionic systems onto qubits. Common encoding methods transform a fermionic system of $N$ spin-orbitals into an $N$-qubit system, but many of the fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Yu Shee , Pei-Kai Tsai , Cheng-Lin Hong , Hao-Chung Cheng , Hsi-Sheng Goan

Encoding logical quantum information in harmonic oscillator modes is a promising and hardware-efficient approach to the realization of a quantum computer. In this work, we propose to encode logical qubits in grid states of an ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Baptiste Royer , Shraddha Singh , Steven M. Girvin

Achieving reliable performance on early fault-tolerant quantum hardware will depend on protocols that manage noise without incurring prohibitive overhead. We propose a novel framework that integrates quantum computation with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 IlKwon Sohn , Changyeol Lee , Wooyeong Song , Kwangil Bae , Wonhyuk Lee

Block encoding severs as an important data input model in quantum algorithms, enabling quantum computers to simulate non-unitary operators effectively. In this paper, we propose an efficient block-encoding protocol for sparse matrices based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Chunlin Yang , Zexian Li , Hongmei Yao , Zhaobing Fan , Guofeng Zhang , Jianshe Liu

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of position encoding in transformer architectures. By incorporating positional information, this approach provides essential guidance for modeling dependencies between elements across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Avinash Amballa