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A robust definition of quantum runtime is essential for assessing the performance of quantum algorithms and claims of quantum advantage. While for most classical hardware the total runtime is well approximated by computation plus a weakly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 J. Tuziemski , J. Pawłowski , P. Tarasiuk , Ł. Pawela , B. Gardas

One of the core challenges of research in quantum computing is concerned with the question whether quantum advantages can be found for near-term quantum circuits that have implications for practical applications. Motivated by this mindset,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 N. Pirnay , S. Jerbi , J. -P. Seifert , J. Eisert

A critical question for the field of quantum computing in the near future is whether quantum devices without error correction can perform a well-defined computational task beyond the capabilities of state-of-the-art classical computers,…

We discuss the realization of a universal set of ultrafast single- and two-qubit operations with superconducting quantum circuits and investigate the most relevant physical and technical limitations that arise when pushing for faster and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Daoquan Zhu , Tuomas Jaako , Qiongyi He , Peter Rabl

Quantum signal processing (QSP) is a powerful toolbox for the design of quantum algorithms and can lead to asymptotically optimal computational costs. Its realization on noisy quantum computers without fault tolerance, however, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Yuta Kikuchi , Conor Mc Keever , Luuk Coopmans , Michael Lubasch , Marcello Benedetti

Quantum computational supremacy arguments, which describe a way for a quantum computer to perform a task that cannot also be done by a classical computer, typically require some sort of computational assumption related to the limitations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Alexander M. Dalzell , Aram W. Harrow , Dax Enshan Koh , Rolando L. La Placa

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

Quantum computing systems need to be benchmarked in terms of practical tasks they would be expected to do. Here, we propose 3 "application-motivated" circuit classes for benchmarking: deep (relevant for state preparation in the variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Daniel Mills , Seyon Sivarajah , Travis L. Scholten , Ross Duncan

Demonstrating quantum advantage requires experimental implementation of a computational task that is hard to achieve using state-of-the-art classical systems. One approach is to perform sampling from a probability distribution associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Xun Gao , Marcin Kalinowski , Chi-Ning Chou , Mikhail D. Lukin , Boaz Barak , Soonwon Choi

Due to the scarcity of quantum computing resources, researchers and developers have very limited access to real quantum computers. Therefore, judicious planning and utilization of quantum computer runtime are essential to ensure smooth…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ning Ma , Heng Li

We introduce a simple sub-universal quantum computing model, which we call the Hadamard-classical circuit with one-qubit (HC1Q) model. It consists of a classical reversible circuit sandwiched by two layers of Hadamard gates, and therefore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Tomoyuki Morimae , Yuki Takeuchi , Harumichi Nishimura

Along with the development of quantum technology, finding useful applications of quantum computers has been a central pursuit. Despite various quantum algorithms have been developed, many of them often require strong input assumptions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Nhat A. Nghiem

The class of commuting quantum circuits known as IQP (instantaneous quantum polynomial-time) has been shown to be hard to simulate classically, assuming certain complexity-theoretic conjectures. Here we study the power of IQP circuits in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Michael J. Bremner , Ashley Montanaro , Dan J. Shepherd

Despite extensive research efforts, few quantum algorithms for classical optimization demonstrate realizable quantum advantage. The utility of many quantum algorithms is limited by high requisite circuit depth and nonconvex optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Taylor L. Patti , Jean Kossaifi , Anima Anandkumar , Susanne F. Yelin

Classical stochastic processes can be generated by quantum simulators instead of the more standard classical ones, such as hidden Markov models. One reason for using quantum simulators is that they generally require less memory than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-19 C. Aghamohammadi , J. R. Mahoney , J. P. Crutchfield

A limited number of qubits, high error rates, and limited qubit connectivity are major challenges for effective near-term quantum computations. Quantum circuit partitioning divides a quantum computation into a set of computations that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Sebastian Brandhofer , Ilia Polian , Kevin Krsulich

Quantum computing, a prominent non-Von Neumann paradigm beyond Moore's law, can offer superpolynomial speedups for certain problems. Yet its advantages in efficiency for tasks like machine learning remain under investigation, and quantum…

The prospects of quantum computing have driven efforts to realize fully functional quantum processing units (QPUs). Recent success in developing proof-of-principle QPUs has prompted the question of how to integrate these emerging processors…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Keith A. Britt , Travis S. Humble

Quantum computing has garnered attention for its potential to solve complex computational problems with considerable speedup. Despite notable advancements in the field, achieving meaningful scalability and noise control in quantum hardware…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Eduardo Willwock Lussi , Rafael de Santiago , Eduardo Inacio Duzzioni

Circuit cutting partitions a large quantum circuit into smaller subcircuits that can be executed independently and recombined by classical post-processing. In classical state-vector simulation with full-state reconstruction, the runtime is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Mitsuhiro Matsumoto , Shinichiro Sanji , Takahiko Satoh