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Architectures for quantum computing based on neutral atoms have risen to prominence as candidates for both near and long-term applications. These devices are particularly well suited to solve independent set problems, as the combinatorial…

We propose a scalable encoding of combinatorial optimization problems with arbitrary connectivity, including higher-order terms, on arrays of trapped neutral atoms requiring only a global laser drive. Our approach relies on modular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Martin Lanthaler , Kilian Ender , Clemens Dlaska , Wolfgang Lechner

Assembled arrays of individual atoms with Rydberg-mediated interactions provide a powerful platform for the simulation of many-body spin Hamiltonians as well as the implementation of universal gate-based quantum information processing. We…

Rydberg atom arrays are a promising platform for quantum optimization, encoding computationally hard problems by reducing them to independent set problems with unit-disk graph topology. In Nguyen et al., PRX Quantum 4, 010316 (2023), a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Xi-Wei Pan , Huan-Hai Zhou , Yi-Ming Lu , Jin-Guo Liu

We develop a general deterministic distributed method for locally rounding fractional solutions of graph problems for which the analysis can be broken down into analyzing pairs of vertices. Roughly speaking, the method can transform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Salwa Faour , Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau , Fabian Kuhn , Václav Rozhoň

The Rydberg blockade is a key ingredient for entangling atoms in arrays. However, it requires atoms to be spaced well within the blockade radius, which limits the range of local quantum gates. Here we break this constraint using Floquet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Luheng Zhao , Michael Dao Kang Lee , Mohammad Mujahid Aliyu , Huanqian Loh

Quantum machines are among the most promising technologies expected to provide significant improvements in the following years. However, bridging the gap between real-world applications and their implementation on quantum hardware is still…

We develop a model for quantum computation with Rydberg atom arrays, which only relies on global driving, without the need of local addressing of the qubits: any circuit is executed by a sequence of global, resonant laser pulses on a static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francesco Cesa , Hannes Pichler

Fundamental local symmetry breaking problems such as Maximal Independent Set (MIS) and coloring have been recognized as important by the community, and studied extensively in (standard) graphs. In particular, fast (i.e., logarithmic run…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Shay Kutten , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson

Symmetry breaking problems are among the most well studied in the field of distributed computing and yet the most fundamental questions about their complexity remain open. In this paper we work in the LOCAL model (where the input graph and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin , Seth Pettie , Johannes Schneider

Finding the maximum independent set (MIS) of a large-size graph is a nondeterministic polynomial-time (NP)-complete problem not efficiently solvable with classical computations. Here, we present a set of quantum adiabatic computing data of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Kangheun Kim , Minhyuk Kim , Juyoung Park , Andrew Byun , Jaewook Ahn

We present a hardware-native gadget framework for solving constraint satisfaction problems on Rydberg quantum computing architectures. Our approach introduces a compact $xor_1$ gadget that enforces exactly-one constraints, ubiquitous in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Robert Gloeckner , Shahram Panahiyan , Frederik Koch , Dieter Jaksch , Joseph Doetsch

The Maximal Independent Set (MIS) problem is one of the basics in the study of locality in distributed graph algorithms. This paper presents an extremely simple randomized algorithm providing a near-optimal local complexity for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Mohsen Ghaffari

Neutral atom arrays provide a versatile platform to implement coherent quantum annealing as an approach to solving hard combinatorial optimization problems. Here we present and experimentally demonstrate an efficient encoding scheme based…

The Rydberg blockade mechanism is an important ingredient in quantum simulators based on neutral atom arrays. It enables the emergence of a rich variety of quantum phases of matter, such as topological spin liquids. The typically isotropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Zhongda Zeng , Giuliano Giudici , Hannes Pichler

We study the problem of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) in the standard LOCAL model of distributed computing. Classical algorithms by Luby [JACM'86] and Alon, Babai, and Itai [JALG'86] find an MIS in $O(\log n)$ rounds in $n$-node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Seri Khoury , Aaron Schild

Emerging quantum processors provide an opportunity to explore new approaches for solving traditional problems in the post Moore's law supercomputing era. However, the limited number of qubits makes it infeasible to tackle massive real-world…

With qubits encoded into atomic ground and Rydberg states and situated on the vertexes of a graph, the conditional quantum dynamics of Rydberg blockade, which inhibits simultaneous excitation of nearby atoms, has been employed recently to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Xianjue Zhao , Peiyun Ge , Hongye Yu , Li You , Frank Wilczek , Biao Wu

We propose a nonadiabatic non-Abelian geometric quantum operation scheme to realize universal quantum computation with mesoscopic Rydberg atoms. A single control atom entangles a mesoscopic ensemble of target atoms through long-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Chen-Yue Guo , L. -L. Yan , Shou Zhang , Shi-Lei Su , Weibin Li

We present a new hybrid, local search algorithm for quantum approximate optimization of constrained combinatorial optimization problems. We focus on the Maximum Independent Set problem and demonstrate the ability of quantum local search to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Teague Tomesh , Zain H. Saleem , Martin Suchara