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Developing hardware-efficient implementations of quantum algorithms is crucial in the NISQ era to achieve practical quantum advantage. Here, we construct a generic quantum solver for NP problems based on Grover's search algorithm,…

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Single atoms in dipole microtraps or optical tweezers have recently become a promising platform for quantum computing and simulation. Here we report a detailed theoretical analysis of the physics underlying an implementation of a Rydberg…

Arrays of ultracold neutral atoms, also known as Rydberg atom arrays, are rapidly developing into a powerful and versatile platform for quantum simulation. However, theoretical predictions about the bulk quantum phases of matter present in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-22 Yash M. Lokare , Matthew J. Coley-O'Rourke

Gate-based quantum image processing is constrained by qubit scarcity and the high overhead of quantum state preparation, limiting its applicability to realistic geometric data. We introduce a quantum-native framework for image matching on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Vikrant Sharma , Neel Kanth Kundu

We describe and analyze an architecture for quantum optimization to solve maximum independent set (MIS) problems using neutral atom arrays trapped in optical tweezers. Optimizing independent sets is one of the paradigmatic, NP-hard problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Hannes Pichler , Sheng-Tao Wang , Leo Zhou , Soonwon Choi , Mikhail D. Lukin

We present a blueprint for building a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer with Rydberg atoms. Our scheme, which is based on the surface code, uses individually-addressable optically-trapped atoms as qubits and exploits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 James M. Auger , Silvia Bergamini , Dan E. Browne

Previously, we had proposed the technique of light shift imbalance induced blockade which leads to a condition where a collection of non-interacting atoms under laser excitation remains combined to a superposition of the ground and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yanfei Tu , May E. Kim , Selim M. Shahriar

Rydberg atom arrays offer flexible geometries of strongly-interacting neutral atoms, which are useful for many quantum applications such as quantum simulation and quantum computation. Here we consider a gate-based quantum computing scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Seokho Jeong , Xiao-Feng Shi , Minhyuk Kim , Jaewook Ahn

We characterize the set of optimal protocols for two-qubit entangling gates through a mechanism analysis based on quantum pathways, which allows us to compare and rank the different solutions. As an example of a flexible platform with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Ignacio R. Sola , Seokmin Shin , Bo Y. Chang

Combinatorial optimization problems play a central role in computer science with many real world applications. A number of relevant problems remain computationally difficult to solve as they lie in the NP-hard complexity class. We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Kapil Goswami , Peter Schmelcher

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 propose a new physical approach for encoding and processing of quantum information in ensembles of multi-level quantum systems, where the different bits are not carried by individual particles but associated with the collective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Brion , K. Moelmer , M. Saffman

We propose a protocol to realize arbitrary state synthesis and unitary operations on a qudit encoded in the collective dressed states of a Rydberg blockaded array of three-level atoms. This system is isomorphic to the Jaynes-Cummings model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Achille Robert , Tom Bienaimé

We present a scalable architecture for solving higher-order constrained binary optimization problems on current neutral-atom hardware operating in the Rydberg blockade regime. In particular, we formulate the recently developed parity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Martin Lanthaler , Clemens Dlaska , Kilian Ender , Wolfgang Lechner

We introduce a variational algorithm based on the quantum alternating operator ansatz (QAOA) for the approximate solution of computationally hard counting problems. Our algorithm, dubbed VQCount, is based on the equivalence between random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Julien Drapeau , Shreya Banerjee , Stefanos Kourtis

Going as far as possible at SAT problem solving is the main aim of our work. For this sake we have made use of quantum computing from its two, on practice, main models of computation. They have required some reformulations over the former…

Programmable quantum systems based on Rydberg atom arrays have recently been used for hardware-efficient tests of quantum optimization algorithms [Ebadi et al., Science, 376, 1209 (2022)] with hundreds of qubits. In particular, the maximum…

Quantum computer algorithms can exploit the structure of random satisfiability problems. This paper extends a previous empirical evaluation of such an algorithm and gives an approximate asymptotic analysis accounting for both the average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tad Hogg

A new quantum algorithm is proposed to solve Satisfiability(SAT) problems by taking advantage of non-unitary transformation in ground state quantum computer. The energy gap scale of the ground state quantum computer is analyzed for 3-bit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Wenjin Mao

Ensembles of atoms interacting via their Rydberg levels, known as "superatoms" for their ability to encode qubits and to emit single photons, attract increasing attention as building blocks for quantum network nodes. Assessing their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Valentin Magro , Sébastien Garcia , Alexei Ourjoumtsev