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Network motif identification problem aims to find topological patterns in biological networks. Identifying non-overlapping motifs is a computationally challenging problem using classical computers. Quantum computers enable solving high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Hoang M. Ngo , Tamim Khatib , My T. Thai , Tamer Kahveci

Dynamic programming is a cornerstone of graph-based optimization. While effective, it scales unfavorably with problem size. In this work, we present QuantGraph, a two-stage quantum-enhanced framework that casts local and global…

We develop and implement automated methods for optimizing quantum circuits of the size and type expected in quantum computations that outperform classical computers. We show how to handle continuous gate parameters and report a collection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-04 Yunseong Nam , Neil J. Ross , Yuan Su , Andrew M. Childs , Dmitri Maslov

Finding the ground state of Ising spin glasses is notoriously difficult due to disorder and frustration. Often, this challenge is framed as a combinatorial optimization problem, for which a common strategy employs simulated annealing, a…

We apply numerical optimization and linear algebra algorithms for classical computers to the problem of automatically synthesizing algorithms for quantum computers. Using our framework, we apply several common techniques from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Yuxin Huang , Benjamin E. Grossman-Ponemon , David A. B. Hyde

High-energy colliders, exemplified by the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), constitute genuine quantum machines. In alignment with Richard Feynman's foundational vision for quantum computing, collider physics emerge therefore as a prime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Germán Rodrigo

Gate-model quantum computers provide an experimentally implementable architecture for near term quantum computations. To design a reduced quantum circuit that can simulate a high complexity reference quantum circuit, an optimization should…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Laszlo Gyongyosi , Sandor Imre

Due to recent technological advances, actual quantum devices are being constructed and used to perform computations. As a result, many classical problems are being restated so as to be solved on quantum computers. Some examples include…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Matthew B. Crawford

High-energy colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, are genuine quantum machines, so, in line with Richard Feynman's original motivation for Quantum Computing, the scattering processes that take place there are natural…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 Germán Rodrigo

We demonstrate that a quantum annealer can be used to solve the NP-complete problem of graph partitioning into subgraphs containing Hamiltonian cycles of constrained length. We present a method to find a partition of a given directed graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Eugenio Cocchi , Edoardo Tignone , Davide Vodola

Effective search for graph automorphisms allows identifying symmetries in many discrete structures, ranging from chemical molecules to microprocessor circuits. Using this type of structure can enhance visualization as well as speed up…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Hadi Katebi , Karem A. Sakallah , Igor L. Markov

We investigate a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for solving the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem on regular graphs, combining the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) with a minimal degree classical greedy algorithm.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Elisabeth Wybo , Jami Rönkkö , Olli Hirviniemi , Jernej Rudi Finžgar , Martin Leib

Acyclic digraphs are the underlying representation of Bayesian networks, a widely used class of probabilistic graphical models. Learning the underlying graph from data is a way of gaining insights about the structural properties of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-06 Jack Kuipers , Giusi Moffa

The MaxCut problem is a fundamental problem in Combinatorial Optimization, with significant implications across diverse domains such as logistics, network design, and statistical physics. The algorithm represents innovative approaches that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Paulo A. Viana , Fernando M. de Paula Neto

In the era of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computing, available quantum resources are limited. Many NP-hard problems can be efficiently addressed using hybrid classical and quantum computational methods. This paper proposes a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Dongmei Liu , Jian Li , Xiubo Cheng , Shibing Zhang , Yan Chang , Lili Yan

Minor embedding is essential for mapping largescale combinatorial problems onto quantum annealers, particularly in quantum machine learning and optimization. This work presents an optimized, universal minor-embedding framework that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Salvatore Sinno , Thomas Groß , Nicholas Chancellor , Bhavika Bhalgamiya , Arati Sahoo

In order to solve real world combinatorial optimization problems with a D-Wave quantum annealer it is necessary to embed the problem at hand into the D-Wave hardware graph, namely Chimera or Pegasus. Most hard real world problems exhibit a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Elisabeth Lobe , Lukas Schürmann , Tobias Stollenwerk

We propose a machine learning based approach to accelerate quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) implementation which is a promising quantum-classical hybrid algorithm to prove the so-called quantum supremacy. In QAOA, a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Mahabubul Alam , Abdullah Ash-Saki , Swaroop Ghosh

We investigate the minimum edge multiway cut problem, a fundamental task in evaluating the resilience of telecommunication networks. This study benchmarks the problem across three quantum computing paradigms: quantum annealing on a D-Wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Ali Abbassi , Yann Dujardin , Eric Gourdin , Philippe Lacomme , Caroline Prodhon

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), which is a variational quantum algorithm, aims to give sub-optimal solutions of combinatorial optimization problems. It is widely believed that QAOA has the potential to demonstrate…