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Assembling genomes from short-read sequencing data remains difficult in repetitive regions, where reference bias and combinatorial complexity limit existing methods. Pangenome-guided sequence assembly (PGSA) mitigates reference bias by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Josh Cudby , Sergii Strelchuk

Quantum computing has the potential to solve complex problems faster and more efficiently than classical computing. It can achieve speedups by leveraging quantum phenomena like superposition, entanglement, and tunneling. Quantum walks (QWs)…

Solving linear systems of equations is a fundamental problem with a wide variety of applications across many fields of science, and there is increasing effort to develop quantum linear solver algorithms. [Suba\c{s}i et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 David Jennings , Matteo Lostaglio , Sam Pallister , Andrew T Sornborger , Yiğit Subaşı

In a recent work by Novo et al. (Sci. Rep. 5, 13304, 2015), the invariant subspace method was applied to the study of continuous-time quantum walk (CTQW). The method helps to reduce a graph into a simpler version that allows more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Chen-Fu Chiang , Chang-Yu Hsieh

Quantum computers can solve semidefinite programs (SDPs) using resources that scale better than state-of-the-art classical methods as a function of the problem dimension. At the same time, the known quantum algorithms scale very unfavorably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Fabian Henze , Viet Tran , Birte Ostermann , Richard Kueng , Timo de Wolff , David Gross

The random walk formalism is used across a wide range of applications, from modelling share prices to predicting population genetics. Likewise quantum walks have shown much potential as a frame- work for developing new quantum algorithms.…

Current state-of-the-art quantum optimization algorithms require representing the original problem as a binary optimization problem, which is then converted into an equivalent cost Hamiltonian suitable for the quantum device. Implementing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Bence Bakó , Adam Glos , Özlem Salehi , Zoltán Zimborás

Problems related to wavelength assignment (WA) in optical communications networks involve allocating transmission wavelengths for known transmission paths between nodes that minimize a certain objective function, for example, the total…

Algorithmic discrepancy theory seeks efficient algorithms to find those two-colorings of a set that minimize a given measure of coloring imbalance in the set, its {\it discrepancy}. The {\it Euclidean discrepancy} problem and the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jiří Lebl , Asif Shakeel

Computing using a continuous-time evolution, based on the natural interaction Hamiltonian of the quantum computer hardware, is a promising route to building useful quantum computers in the near-term. Adiabatic quantum computing, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 James G. Morley , Nicholas Chancellor , Sougato Bose , Viv Kendon

Quantum walks (QWs) are of interest as examples of uniquely quantum behavior and are applicable in a variety of quantum search and simulation models. Implementing QWs on quantum devices is useful from both points of view. We describe a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Asif Shakeel

In this work, we present a new algorithm for generating quantum circuits that efficiently implement continuous time quantum walks on arbitrary simple sparse graphs. The algorithm, called matching decomposition, works by decomposing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Mostafa Atallah , Alvin Gonzales , Daniel Dilley , Igor Gaidai , Zain H. Saleem , Rebekah Herrman

Quantum computing promises to improve the information processing power to levels unreachable by classical computation. Quantum walks are heading the development of quantum algorithms for searching information on graphs more efficiently than…

One of the most important algorithmic applications of quantum walks is to solve spatial search problems. A widely used quantum algorithm for this problem, introduced by Childs and Goldstone [Phys. Rev. A 70, 022314 (2004)], finds a marked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Shantanav Chakraborty , Leonardo Novo , Jérémie Roland

We investigate the irreconcilability issue that raises in translating the search algorithm from the Continuous-Time Quantum Walk (CTQW) framework to the Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) framework. For the AQC formulation to evolve along…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Chen-Fu Chiang , Paul M. Alsing

The quantum walk (QW) was introduced as a quantum counterpart of the classical random walk. A number of non-classical properties of the QW have been shown, e.g., ballistic spreading, anti-bellshaped limit density, localization. Since around…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Norio Konno

Quantum walk is one of the main tools for quantum algorithms. Defined by analogy to classical random walk, a quantum walk is a time-homogeneous quantum process on a graph. Both random and quantum walks can be defined either in continuous or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-10 Andrew M. Childs

A combinatorial optimization problem is to find an optimal solution under the constraints. This is one of the potential applications for quantum computers. Quantum Random Access Optimization (QRAO) is the quantum optimization algorithm that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Hiromichi Matsuyama , Wei-hao Huang , Kohji Nishimura , Yu Yamashiro

Quantum walks are promising tools based on classical random walks, with plenty of applications such as many variants of optimization. Here we introduce the semiclassical walks in discrete time, which are algorithms that combines classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Sergio A. Ortega , Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Szegedy's quantum walk gives a generic quadratic speedup for reversible classical Markov chains, but extending this mechanism to quantum Gibbs sampling has remained challenging beyond special cases. We present a walk-free quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jiaqi Leng , Jiaqing Jiang , Lin Lin