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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

In order to qualify quantum algorithms for industrial NP-Hard problems, comparing them to available polynomial approximate classical algorithms and not only to exact ones -- exponential by nature -- , is necessary. This is a great challenge…

In current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, hybrid quantum neural networks (HQNNs) offer a promising solution, combining the strengths of classical machine learning with quantum computing capabilities. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Tasnim Ahmed , Muhammad Kashif , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

The state-of-the-art machine learning approaches are based on classical von Neumann computing architectures and have been widely used in many industrial and academic domains. With the recent development of quantum computing, researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jun Qi , Pin-Yu Chen , Xiaoli Ma , Hsi-Sheng Goan

This work studies the feasibility of applying quantum kernel methods to a real consumer classification task in the NISQ regime. We present a hybrid pipeline that combines a quantum-kernel Support Vector Machine (Q-SVM) with a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Laura Sáez-Ortuño , Santiago Forgas-Coll , Massimiliano Ferrara

Quantum random access memory (QRAM)--memory which stores classical data but allows queries to be performed in superposition--is required for the implementation of numerous quantum algorithms. While naive implementations of QRAM are highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Connor T. Hann , Gideon Lee , S. M. Girvin , Liang Jiang

Consider a fixed universe of $N=2^n$ elements and the uniform distribution over elements of some subset of size $K$. Given samples from this distribution, the task of complement sampling is to provide a sample from the complementary subset.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Marcello Benedetti , Harry Buhrman , Jordi Weggemans

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices pave the way to implement quantum algorithms that exhibit supremacy over their classical counterparts. Due to the intrinsic noise and decoherence in the physical system, NISQ computations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Entong He , Yuxiang Yang

Deep neural networks remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting their reliability in security- and safety-critical applications. To address this challenge, we introduce QShield, a modular hybrid quantum-classical neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Navid Azimi , Aditya Prakash , Yao Wang , Li Xiong

Soon after the dawn of quantum error correction, DiVincenzo and Peres observed that stabilizer codewords could give rise to simple proofs of quantumness via contextuality. This discovery can be recast in the language of nonlocal games:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Wanbing Zhao , H. W. Shawn Liew , Wen Wei Ho , Chunxiao Liu , Vir B. Bulchandani

As research on building scalable quantum computers advances, it is important to be able to certify their correctness. Due to the exponential hardness of classically simulating quantum computation, straight-forward verification through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-23 Iskren Vankov , Daniel Mills , Petros Wallden , Elham Kashefi

Hybrid games model cyber-physical systems (CPS), like cars, trains, and airplanes, where discrete control decisions interact with continuous physical dynamics. We use Large Language Models (LLMs) to scale formal verification and synthesis…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aditi Kabra , Jonathan Laurent , Ruben Martins , Stefan Mitsch , André Platzer

We present a quantum algorithm based on the Generalized Quantum Master Equation (GQME) approach to simulate open quantum system dynamics on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. This approach overcomes the limitations of the…

Noise and imperfections are among the prevalent challenges in quantum software engineering for current NISQ systems. They will remain important in the post-NISQ area, as logical, error-corrected qubits will be based on software mechanisms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Stefan Raimund Maschek , Jürgen Schwitalla , Maja Franz , Wolfgang Mauerer

We show that concrete hardness assumptions about learning or cloning the output state of a random quantum circuit can be used as the foundation for secure quantum cryptography. In particular, under these assumptions we construct secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Bill Fefferman , Soumik Ghosh , Makrand Sinha , Henry Yuen

Variational Quantum Algorithms are among the most promising systems to implement quantum computing under the Noisy-Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology. In variational quantum algorithm, wavefunction represented by a parametrized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 H. Davoodi Yeganeh

Hybrid quantum-classical models represent a crucial step toward leveraging near-term quantum devices for sequential data processing. We present Quantum Recurrent Neural Networks (QRNNs) and Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Stefan Balauca , Ada-Astrid Balauca , Adrian Iftene

Recently, there has been an emergence of useful applications for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices notably, though not exclusively, in the fields of quantum machine learning and variational quantum algorithms. In such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Ellen Derbyshire , Rawad Mezher , Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi

Recent developments in domains such as non-local games, quantum interactive proofs, and quantum generative adversarial networks have renewed interest in quantum game theory and, specifically, quantum zero-sum games. Central to classical…

Hybrid classical-quantum systems are of interest in numerous fields, from quantum chemistry to quantum information science. A fully quantum effective description of them is straightforward to formulate when the classical subsystem is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 S. Camalet