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The purpose of this paper is to explore the applications of quantum computing to energy systems optimization problems and discuss some of the challenges faced by quantum computers with techniques to overcome them. The basic concepts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Akshay Ajagekar , Fengqi You

Answering a question of Haugland, we show that the pooling problem with one pool and a bounded number of inputs can be solved in polynomial time by solving a polynomial number of linear programs of polynomial size. We also give an overview…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Natashia Boland , Thomas Kalinowski , Fabian Rigterink

The subset sum problem is known to be an NP-hard problem in the field of computer science with the fastest known approach having a run-time complexity of $O(2^{0.3113n})$. A modified version of this problem is known as the perfect sum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kristof Pusztai

Finding a quantum computing method to solve nondeterministic polynomial time (NP)-complete problems is currently of paramount importance in quantum information science. Here an experiment is presented to demonstrate the use of Rydberg atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Seokho Jeong , Minhyuk Kim , Minki Hhan , Jaewook Ahn

Quantum computers have the potential of solving certain problems exponentially faster than classical computers. Recently, Harrow, Hassidim and Lloyd proposed a quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations: given an $N\times{N}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 Jian Pan , Yudong Cao , Xiwei Yao , Zhaokai Li , Chenyong Ju , Xinhua Peng , Sabre Kais , Jiangfeng Du

A unified approach, for solving a wide class of single and many-body quantum problems, commonly encountered in literature is developed based on a recently proposed method for finding solutions of linear differential equations. Apart from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Gurappa , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , R. Atre , T. Shreecharan

The Hamiltonian cycle problem (HCP), which is an NP-complete problem, consists of having a graph G with n nodes and m edges and finding the path that connects each node exactly once. In this paper we compare some algorithms to solve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Giuseppe Corrente , Carlo Vincenzo Stanzione , Vittoria Stanzione

The computational complexity of the partition, 0-1 subset sum, unbounded subset sum, 0-1 knapsack and unbounded knapsack problems and their multiple variants were studied in numerous papers in the past where all the weights and profits were…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Dominik Wojtczak

Path integral-based simulation methodologies play a crucial role for the investigation of nuclear quantum effects by means of computer simulations. However, these techniques are significantly more demanding than corresponding classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 Karsten Kreis , Kurt Kremer , Raffaello Potestio , Mark E. Tuckerman

This is the latest in a series of articles aimed at exploring the relationship between the complexity classes of P and NP. In the previous papers, we have proved that the sat CNF problem is polynomially reduced to the problem of finding a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Stepan G. Margaryan

The finite element method is used to approximately solve boundary value problems for differential equations. The method discretises the parameter space and finds an approximate solution by solving a large system of linear equations. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Ashley Montanaro , Sam Pallister

We propose a new method for evaluating NISQ devices. This paper has three distinct parts. First, we present a new quantum algorithm that solves a two hundred year old problem of finding quadratic nonresidues (QNR) in polynomial time. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 Thomas G. Draper

Quantum computing has attracted significant interest in the optimization community because it potentially can solve classes of optimization problems faster than conventional supercomputers. Several researchers proposed quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi , Ramin Fakhimi , Tamás Terlaky

In this work, we introduce a novel variant of the multivariate quadratic problem, which is at the core of one of the most promising post-quantum alternatives: multivariate cryptography. In this variant, the solution of a given multivariate…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Antoine Joux , Rocco Mora

Theoretical complexity is a vital subfield of computer science that enables us to mathematically investigate computation and answer many interesting queries about the nature of computational problems. It provides theoretical tools to assess…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohamed Ghanem , Dauod Siniora

Until now, Computer Scientists have concerned themselves with identifying efficient algorithms for solving the general case of some problem -- that is finding one which performs well when the size of the input tends to infinity. In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mircea-Adrian Digulescu

In this paper, we introduce the Maximum Matrix Contraction problem, where we aim to contract as much as possible a binary matrix in order to maximize its density. We study the complexity and the polynomial approximability of the problem.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Dimitri Watel , Pierre-Louis Poirion

This paper presents a novel framework for high-dimensional nonlinear quantum computation that exploits tensor products of amplified vector and matrix encodings to efficiently evaluate multivariate polynomials. The approach enables the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Matthias Deiml , Daniel Peterseim

NP-hard optimization problems scale very rapidly with problem size, becoming unsolvable with brute force methods, even with supercomputing resources. Typically, such problems have been approximated with heuristics. However, these methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Gideon Bass , Casey Tomlin , Vaibhaw Kumar , Pete Rihaczek , Joseph Dulny

Quantum machine learning promises to efficiently solve important problems. There are two persistent challenges in classical machine learning: the lack of labeled data, and the limit of computational power. We propose a novel framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Zhou Shangnan