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Quantum Annealing (QA) is a computational framework where a quantum system's continuous evolution is used to find the global minimum of an objective function over an unstructured search space. It can be seen as a general metaheuristic for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Arthur Braida , Simon Martiel , Ioan Todinca

We propose and implement a comprehensive quantum compilation toolkit for solving the maximum independent set (MIS) problem on quantum hardware based on Rydberg atom arrays. Our end-to-end pipeline involves three core components to…

Efficient sampling from a classical Gibbs distribution is an important computational problem with applications ranging from statistical physics over Monte Carlo and optimization algorithms to machine learning. We introduce a family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Dominik S. Wild , Dries Sels , Hannes Pichler , Cristian Zanoci , Mikhail D. Lukin

We present a quantum algorithm to solve systems of linear equations of the form $A\mathbf{x}=\mathbf{b}$, where $A$ is a tridiagonal Toeplitz matrix and $\mathbf{b}$ results from discretizing an analytic function, with a circuit complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-17 Almudena Carrera Vazquez , Ralf Hiptmair , Stefan Woerner

Quantum Annealing (QA) uses quantum fluctuations to search for a global minimum of an optimization-type problem faster than classical computers. To meet the demand for future internet traffic and mitigate the spectrum scarcity, this work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Eldar Gabdulsattarov , Khaled Rabie , Xingwang Li , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev

Quantum annealing aims to exploit quantum mechanics to speed up the search for the solution to optimization problems. Most problems exhibit complete connectivity between the logical spin variables after they are mapped to the Ising spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Tameem Albash , Walter Vinci , Daniel A. Lidar

Mixed-integer linear programming problems are extensively used in industry for a wide range of optimization tasks. However, as they get larger, they present computational challenges for classical solvers within practical time limits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Sergio López-Baños , Elisabeth Lobe , Ontje Lünsdorf , Oriol Raventós

We study large-scale applications using a GPU-accelerated version of the massively parallel J\"ulich universal quantum computer simulator (JUQCS--G). First, we benchmark JUWELS Booster, a GPU cluster with 3744 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Dennis Willsch , Madita Willsch , Fengping Jin , Kristel Michielsen , Hans De Raedt

Attention mechanisms underpin modern deep learning, while the quadratic time and space complexity limit scalability for long sequences. To address this, Quantum Annealing Multi-Head Attention (QAMA) is proposed, a novel drop-in operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Peng Du , Jinjing Shi , Wenxuan Wang , Yin Ma , Kai Wen , Xuelong Li

Quantum machine learning is one of the fields where quantum computers are expected to bring advantages over classical methods. However, the limited size of current computers restricts the exploitation of the full potential of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Juan C. Boschero , Ward van der Schoot , Niels M. P. Neumann

Simulated Quantum Annealing (SQA), that is emulating a Quantum Annealing (QA) dynamics on a classical computer by a Quantum Monte Carlo whose parameters are changed during the simulation, is a well established computational strategy to cope…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Glen Bigan Mbeng , Lorenzo Privitera , Luca Arceci , Giuseppe E. Santoro

With unprecedented increases in traffic load in today's wireless networks, design challenges shift from the wireless network itself to the computational support behind the wireless network. In this vein, there is new interest in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Minsung Kim , Davide Venturelli , Kyle Jamieson

In this work we investigate the capabilities of a hybrid quantum-classical procedure to explore the solution space using the D-Wave $2000Q^{TM}$ Quantum Annealer device. Here we study the ability of the Quantum hardware to solve the Number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Luca Asproni , Davide Caputo , Blanca Silva , Giovanni Fazzi , Marco Magagnini

Quantum annealing is a novel type of analog computation that aims to use quantum mechanical fluctuations to search for optimal solutions of Ising problems. Quantum annealing in the Transverse Ising model, implemented on D-Wave QPUs, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Elijah Pelofske

Quantum Annealing (QA) relies on mixing two Hamiltonian terms, a simple driver and a complex problem Hamiltonian, in a linear combination. The time-dependent schedule for this mixing is often taken to be linear in time: improving on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Giovanni Pecci , Ruiyi Wang , Pietro Torta , Glen Bigan Mbeng , Giuseppe Santoro

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is one of the most promising Noisy Intermediate Quantum Algorithms (NISQ) in solving combinatorial optimizations and displays potential over classical heuristic techniques.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Arul Rhik Mazumder , Anuvab Sen , Udayon Sen

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have the potential of utilizing near-term quantum machines to gain certain computational advantages over classical methods. Nevertheless, modern VQAs suffer from cumbersome computational overhead,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Yuxuan Du , Yang Qian , Dacheng Tao

Platforms of Rydberg atoms have been proposed as promising candidates to solve some combinatorial optimization problems. Here, we compute quantitative requirements on the system sizes and noise levels that these platforms must fulfill to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Michel Fabrice Serret , Bertrand Marchand , Thomas Ayral

The quest for real-time dynamic optimization solutions in the process industry represents a formidable computational challenge, particularly within the realm of applications like model-predictive control, where rapid and reliable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Dennis Michael Nenno , Adrian Caspari

Classical optimization problems can be solved by adiabatically preparing the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian that encodes the problem. The performance of this approach is determined by the smallest gap encountered during the…