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In the era of noisy-intermediate-scale quantum computers, we expect to see quantum devices with increasing numbers of qubits emerge in the foreseeable future. To practically run quantum programs, logical qubits have to be mapped to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Will Finigan , Michael Cubeddu , Thomas Lively , Johannes Flick , Prineha Narang

Quantum computation is a topic of significant recent interest, with practical advances coming from both research and industry. A major challenge in quantum programming is dealing with errors (quantum noise) during execution. Because quantum…

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Learning problems involving quantum data are natural candidates for demonstrating an advantage in quantum machine learning. Recent results indicate that, for certain tasks and under noiseless conditions, coherent processing of quantum data…

Meaningful quantum computing is currently bottlenecked by the error rates of current generation Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. To improve the fidelity of the quantum logic gates, it is essential to recognize the…

Quantum software engineering is an emerging discipline with distinct challenges, particularly in testing and debugging. As quantum computing transitions from theory to implementation, developers face issues not present in classical software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jake Zappin , Trevor Stalnaker , Oscar Chaparro , Denys Poshyvanyk

Quantum machine learning, which involves running machine learning algorithms on quantum devices, has garnered significant attention in both academic and business circles. In this paper, we offer a comprehensive and unbiased review of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Yunfei Wang , Junyu Liu

State-of-the-art noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices (NISQ), although imperfect, enable computational tasks that are manifestly beyond the capabilities of modern classical supercomputers. However, present quantum computations are…

While scalable, fully error corrected quantum computing is years or even decades away, there is considerable interest in noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing (NISQ). In this paper, we introduce the ArsoNISQ framework that determines…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Sebastian Brandhofer , Simon Devitt , Ilia Polian

Quantum simulation is a central application of near-term quantum devices, pursued in both analog and digital architectures. A key challenge for both paradigms is the effect of imperfections and noise on predictive power. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jayant Rao , Jens Eisert , Tommaso Guaita

Quantum computation has made considerable progress in the last decade with multiple emerging technologies providing proof-of-principle experimental demonstrations of such calculations. However, these experimental demonstrations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Samudra Dasgupta , Travis S. Humble

Characterisation protocols have so far played a central role in the development of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers capable of impressive quantum feats. This trajectory is expected to continue in building the next…

Quantum computers have the potential to outperform classical computers for some complex computational problems. However, current quantum computers (e.g., from IBM and Google) have inherent noise that results in errors in the outputs of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Asmar Muqeet , Shaukat Ali , Tao Yue , Paolo Arcaini

Ubiquitous noises in quantum systems remain a key obstacle to building quantum computers, necessitating the use of quantum error correction codes. Recently, error-correcting codes tailored for noise-biased systems have been shown to offer…

Quantum computing (QC) is a new paradigm offering the potential of exponential speedups over classical computing for certain computational problems. Each additional qubit doubles the size of the computational state space available to a QC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Wei Tang , Teague Tomesh , Martin Suchara , Jeffrey Larson , Margaret Martonosi

Quantum computation has been growing rapidly in both theory and experiments. In particular, quantum computing devices with a large number of qubits have been developed by IBM, Google, IonQ, and others. The current quantum computing devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Rishabh Gupta , Rongxin Xia , Raphael D. Levine , Sabre Kais

Considerable effort in experimental quantum computing is devoted to noisy intermediate scale quantum computers (NISQ computers). Understanding the effect of noise is important for various aspects of this endeavor including notable claims…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Gil Kalai , Yosef Rinott , Tomer Shoham

Simon's algorithm was one of the first problems to demonstrate a genuine quantum advantage. The algorithm, however, assumes access to noise-free qubits. In our work we use Simon's algorithm to benchmark the error rates of devices currently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Reece Robertson , Emery Doucet , Ernest Spicer , Sebastian Deffner

We propose a hybrid protocol to classify quantum noises using supervised classical machine learning models and simple quantum key distribution protocols. We consider the quantum bit error rates (QBERs) generated in QKD schemes under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Shreya Banerjee , Ashmi A. , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Quantum computers are known for their potential to achieve up-to-exponential speedup compared to classical computers for certain problems. To exploit the advantages of quantum computers, we propose quantum algorithms for linear stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Wei Wei

Quantum computers hold immense potential in the field of chemistry, ushering new frontiers to solve complex many body problems that are beyond the reach of classical computers. However, noise in the current quantum hardware limits their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Chayan Patra , Sonaldeep Halder , Rahul Maitra