English
Related papers

Related papers: A Practical Framework for Assessing the Performanc…

200 papers

Quantum optimisation is emerging as a promising approach alongside classical heuristics and specialised hardware, yet its performance is often difficult to assess fairly. Traditional benchmarking methods, rooted in digital complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Frank Phillipson

Current technological advancements of quantum computers highlight the need for application-driven, practical and well-defined methods of benchmarking their performance. As the existing NISQ device's quality of two-qubit gate errors rate is…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Krzysztof Kurowski , Piotr Rydlichowski , Konrad Wojciechowski , Tomasz Pecyna , Mateusz Slysz

Quantum circuits consisting of Clifford and matchgates are two classes of circuits that are known to be efficiently simulatable on a classical computer. We introduce a unified framework that shows in a transparent way the special structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Igor Ermakov , Oleg Lychkovskiy , Tim Byrnes

We apply the framework of block-encodings, introduced by Low and Chuang (under the name standard-form), to the study of quantum machine learning algorithms and derive general results that are applicable to a variety of input models,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 Shantanav Chakraborty , András Gilyén , Stacey Jeffery

We introduce a notion of commutativity between operators on a tensor product space, nominally Pauli strings on qubits, that interpolates between qubit-wise commutativity and (full) commutativity. We apply this notion, which we call…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Ben DalFavero , Rahul Sarkar , Jeremiah Rowland , Daan Camps , Nicolas Sawaya , Ryan LaRose

This paper presents the benchmark score definitions of QPack, an application-oriented cross-platform benchmarking suite for quantum computers and simulators, which makes use of scalable Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Huub Donkers , Koen Mesman , Zaid Al-Ars , Matthias Möller

Quantum simulation is a promising pathway toward practical quantum advantage by simulating large-scale quantum systems. In this work, we propose communication-efficient distributed quantum simulation protocols by exploring three quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Tianfeng Feng , Jue Xu , Wenjun Yu , Zekun Ye , Penghui Yao , Qi Zhao

Hamiltonian simulation is a central application of quantum computing, with significant potential in modeling physical systems and solving complex optimization problems. Existing compilers for such simulations typically focus on low-level…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Liyi Li , Fenfen An , Federico Zahariev , Zhi Xiang Chong , Amr Sabry , Mark S. Gordon

The rapid development in hardware for quantum computing and simulation has led to much interest in problems where these devices can exceed the capabilities of existing classical computers and known methods. Approaching this for problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 S. Flannigan , N. Pearson , G. H. Low , A. Buyskikh , I. Bloch , P. Zoller , M. Troyer , A. J. Daley

We conducted quantum simulations of strongly correlated systems using the quantum flow (QFlow) approach, which enables sampling large sub-spaces of the Hilbert space through coupled eigenvalue problems in reduced dimensionality active…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Karol Kowalski , Nicholas P. Bauman

We propose a quantum algorithm which uses the number of qubits in an optimal way and efficiently simulates a physical model with rich and complex dynamics described by the quantum sawtooth map. The numerical study of the effect of static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Simone Montangero , Dima L. Shepelyansky

Here we explore which heuristic quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization might be most practical to try out on a small fault-tolerant quantum computer. We compile circuits for several variants of quantum accelerated simulated…

We present a classical algorithm based on Pauli propagation for estimating expectation values of arbitrary observables on random unstructured quantum circuits across all circuit architectures and depths, including those with all-to-all…

Estimation of the expectation value of observables is a key subroutine in quantum computing and is also the bottleneck of the performance of many near-term quantum algorithms. Many works have been proposed to reduce the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Zi-Jian Zhang , Kouhei Nakaji , Matthew Choi , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

The Hamiltonian of a quantum system is represented in terms of operators corresponding to the kinetic and potential energies of the system. The expectation value of a Hamiltonian and Hamiltonian simulation are two of the most fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Benchi Zhao , Keisuke Fujii

Digital quantum simulation has broad applications in approximating unitary evolution of Hamiltonians. In practice, many simulation tasks for quantum systems focus on quantum states in the low-energy subspace instead of the entire Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Weiyuan Gong , Shuo Zhou , Tongyang Li

One of the main aims in the field of quantum simulation is to achieve a quantum speedup, often referred to as "quantum computational supremacy", referring to the experimental realization of a quantum device that computationally outperforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 J. Bermejo-Vega , D. Hangleiter , M. Schwarz , R. Raussendorf , J. Eisert

Quantum computing has made considerable progress in recent years in both software and hardware. But to unlock the power of quantum computers in solving problems that cannot be efficiently solved classically, quantum computing at scale is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Nils Quetschlich , Mathias Soeken , Prakash Murali , Robert Wille

Much attention has been paid to dynamical simulation and quantum machine learning (QML) independently as applications for quantum advantage, while the possibility of using QML to enhance dynamical simulations has not been thoroughly…

Measuring properties of quantum systems is a fundamental problem in quantum mechanics. We provide a simple method for estimating the expectation value of observables with an unknown quantum state. The idea is to use a data structure to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Naixu Guo , Feng Pan , Patrick Rebentrost