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We introduce a quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) for continuous optimization. The algorithm is based on the dynamics of a quantum system moving in an energy potential which encodes the objective function. By approximating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Guillaume Verdon , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Kamil Brádler , Nathan Killoran

In adiabatic quantum computing the aim is to track an eigenstate as the Hamiltonian changes. In the usual setup this is achieved using the natural time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of the system and the main technical tool is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Joseph Cunningham , Jérémie Roland

We consider the problem of minimizing a continuous function given quantum access to a stochastic gradient oracle. We provide two new methods for the special case of minimizing a Lipschitz convex function. Each method obtains a dimension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Aaron Sidford , Chenyi Zhang

This paper concerns quantum heuristics able to extend the domain of quantum computing, defining a promising way in the large number of well-known classical algorithms. Quantum approximate heuristics take advantage of alternation between a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Eric Bourreau , Gérard Fleury , Philippe Lacomme

Advances in quantum algorithms suggest a tentative scaling advantage on certain combinatorial optimization problems. Recent work, however, has also reinforced the idea that barren plateaus render variational algorithms ineffective on large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Tim Bode , Krish Ramesh , Tobias Stollenwerk

Discrete combinatorial optimization consists in finding the optimal configuration that minimizes a given discrete objective function. An interpretation of such a function as the energy of a classical system allows us to reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sergio Boixo , Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando Somma

We present an extension of Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) algorithm for the unstructured search to the case when the number of marked items is unknown. The algorithm maintains the optimal Grover speedup and includes a small counting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Zhenwei Cao , Alexander Elgart

Adiabatic quantum computing is a universal model for quantum computing whose implementation using a gate-based quantum computer requires depths that are unreachable in the early fault-tolerant era. To mitigate the limitations of near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Ioannis Kolotouros , Ioannis Petrongonas , Miloš Prokop , Petros Wallden

Establishing quantum speedup for computationally hard problems of practical relevance, particularly combinatorial optimization problems, remains a central challenge in quantum computation. In this work, we identify a structurally defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Vicky Choi

The parametric deformations of quasienergies and eigenvectors of unitary operators are applied to the design of quantum adiabatic algorithms. The conventional, standard adiabatic quantum computation proceeds along eigenenergies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Atushi Tanaka , Kae Nemoto

Adiabatic evolution is a powerful technique in quantum information and computation. However, its performance is limited by the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics. In this scenario, shortcuts to adiabaticity, such as provided by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-17 Alan C. Santos

We construct an oracular (i.e., black box) problem that can be solved exponentially faster on a quantum computer than on a classical computer. The quantum algorithm is based on a continuous time quantum walk, and thus employs a different…

Though quantum algorithm acts as an important role in quantum computation science, not only for providing a great vision for solving classically unsolvable problems, but also due to the fact that it gives a potential way of understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Xiang Zhan , Jian Li , Hao Qin , Zhihao Bian , Peng Xue

Topological quantum computing promises error-resistant quantum computation without active error correction. However, there is a worry that during the process of executing quantum gates by braiding anyons around each other, extra anyonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Chris Cesare , Andrew J. Landahl , Dave Bacon , Steven T. Flammia , Alice Neels

We propose a method to produce fast transitionless dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems without requiring additional Hamiltonian components not included in the initial control setup, remaining close to the true adiabatic path at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Francesco Petiziol , Benjamin Dive , Florian Mintert , Sandro Wimberger

An adiabatic quantum algorithm is essentially given by three elements: An initial Hamiltonian with known ground state, a problem Hamiltonian whose ground state corresponds to the solution of the given problem and an evolution schedule such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Davide Pastorello , Enrico Blanzieri

Quantum computation has emerged as a powerful computational medium of our time, having demonstrated the remarkable efficiency in factoring a positive integer and searching databases faster than any currently known classical computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Tomoyuki Yamakami

It is believed that the presence of anticrossings with exponentially small gaps between the lowest two energy levels of the system Hamiltonian, can render adiabatic quantum optimization inefficient. Here, we present a simple adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Neil G. Dickson , Mohammad H. Amin

We establish improved complexity estimates of quantum algorithms for linear dissipative ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and show that the time dependence can be fast-forwarded to be sub-linear. Specifically, we show that a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Dong An , Akwum Onwunta , Gengzhi Yang

A computation in adiabatic quantum computing is implemented by traversing a path of nondegenerate eigenstates of a continuous family of Hamiltonians. We introduce a method that traverses a discretized form of the path: At each step we apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 S. Boixo , E. Knill , R. D. Somma