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The performance of current quantum hardware is severely limited. While expanding the quantum ISA with high-fidelity, expressive basis gates is a key path forward, it imposes significant gate calibration overhead and complicates compiler…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Zhaohui Yang , Dawei Ding , Qi Ye , Cupjin Huang , Jianxin Chen , Yuan Xie

Quantum measurement is important to quantum computing as it extracts the outcome of the circuit at the end of the computation. Previously, all measurements have to be done at the end of the circuit. Otherwise, it will incur significant…

NISQ devices have inherent limitations in terms of connectivity and hardware noise. The synthesis of CNOT circuits considers the physical constraints and transforms quantum algorithms into low-level quantum circuits that can execute on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Xinyu Chen , Mingqiang Zhu , Xueyun Cheng , Zhijin Guan , Shiguang Feng , Pengcheng Zhu

We present a quantum circuit optimization technique that takes into account the variability in error rates that is inherent across present day noisy quantum computing platforms. This method can be run post qubit routing or post-compilation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Paul D. Nation , Matthew Treinish

Quantum computers represent a radical technological breakthrough in information processing by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics to solve highly complex problems beyond the reach of classical systems. However, in the current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Marcos Guillermo Lammers , Federico Hernán Holik , Alejandro Fernández

Qubits are the fundamental building blocks of quantum information science and applications, whose concept is widely utilized in both quantum physics and quantum computation. While the significance of qubits and their implementation in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Chenxu Liu , Samuel A. Stein , Muqing Zheng , James Ang , Ang Li

The progress in developing quantum hardware with functional quantum processors integrating tens of noisy qubits, together with the availability of near-term quantum algorithms has led to the release of the first quantum computers. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-14 Medina Bandic , Sebastian Feld , Carmen G. Almudever

Quantum circuits utilizing real time feedback techniques (such as active reset and mid-circuit measurement) are a powerful tool for NISQ-era quantum computing. Such techniques are crucial for implementing error correction protocols, and can…

Quantum cloud platforms, which rely on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, face significant challenges in efficiently managing quantum programs. This paper proposes a QPU Scheduling and Resource Allocation (QSRA) approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Binhan Lu , Zhaoyun Chen , Yuchun Wu

In the current era of quantum computing, minimizing noise is essential for reliably executing quantum circuits on hardware. A key factor affecting circuit performance is the mapping of the abstract quantum circuit to the physical layout of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shikhar Srivastava , Ritajit Majumdar , Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri , Anupama Ray , Yogesh Simmhan

Quantum computers with tens to hundreds of noisy qubits are being developed today. To be useful for real-world applications, we believe that these near-term systems cannot simply be scaled-down non-error-corrected versions of future…

Noisy, Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers have reached the point where they can show the potential for quantum advantage over classical computing. Unfortunately, NISQ machines introduce sufficient noise that even for moderate size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Evan McKinney , Mingkang Xia , Chao Zhou , Pinlei Lu , Michael Hatridge , Alex K. Jones

In the NISQ-era of quantum computing, we should not expect to see quantum devices that provide an exponential improvement in runtime for practical problems, due to the lack of error correction and small number of qubits available.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Samuel S. Mendelson , Robert W. Strand , Guy B. Oldaker , Jacob M. Farinholt

Any technology for quantum information processing (QIP) must embody within it quantum bits (qubits) and maintain control of their key quantum properties of superposition and entanglement. Typical QIP schemes envisage an array of physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joseph Fitzsimons , Li Xiao , Simon C. Benjamin , Jonathan A. Jones

Qubit mapping is essential to quantum computing's fidelity and quantum computers' resource utilization. Yet, the existing qubit mapping schemes meet some challenges (e.g., crosstalk, SWAP overheads, diverse device topologies, etc.), leading…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Lei Liu , Xinglei Dou

Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial-time (IQP) circuits are a candidate for demonstrating near-term quantum advantage, as their sampling task is believed to be classically hard in the ideal theoretical setting under standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Leonardo Placidi , Enrico Rinaldi , Keisuke Fujii , Chen-Yu Liu

With the progression into the quantum utility era, computing is shifting toward quantum-centric architectures, where multiple quantum processors collaborate with classical computing resources. Platforms such as IBM Quantum and Amazon Braket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Jinyang Li , Yuhong Song , Yipei Liu , Jianli Pan , Lei Yang , Travis Humble , Weiwen Jiang

Quantum computation is traditionally expressed in terms of quantum bits, or qubits. In this work, we instead consider three-level qu$trits$. Past work with qutrits has demonstrated only constant factor improvements, owing to the $\log_2(3)$…

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

More computational resources (i.e., more physical qubits and qubit connections) on a superconducting quantum processor not only improve the performance but also result in more complex chip architecture with lower yield rate. Optimizing both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Gushu Li , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie