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Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms hold great promise for solving quantum control problems on near-term quantum computers. In this work, we employ the hybrid framework that integrates digital quantum simulation with classical optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tangyou Huang , Jing-Jun Zhu , Zhong-Yi Ni

This thesis focuses on the intersection of mathematical and computational optimization and quantum information. Main contributions are open-source software code: A hybrid approach mixing "traditional" nonconvex and convex methods can make…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Benjamin Desef

Quantum computing is increasingly practiced through programming, yet most educational offerings emphasize algorithmic or framework-level use rather than software engineering concerns such as testing, abstraction, tooling, and lifecycle…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Andriy Miranskyy

Combinatorial optimization is anticipated to be one of the primary use cases for quantum computation in the coming years. The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and Quantum Annealing (QA) can potentially demonstrate…

Quantum optimization has emerged as a promising frontier of quantum computing, providing novel numerical approaches to mathematical optimization problems. The main goal of this paper is to facilitate interdisciplinary research between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Alexey Bochkarev , Raoul Heese , Sven Jäger , Philine Schiewe , Anita Schöbel

In the field of quantum information, classical optimizers play an important role. From experimentalists optimizing their physical devices to theorists exploring variational quantum algorithms, many aspects of quantum information require the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Lucas Tecot , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Variational hybrid quantum-classical optimization represents one of the most promising avenue to show the advantage of nowadays noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers in solving hard problems, such as finding the minimum-energy state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Laura Gentini , Alessandro Cuccoli , Stefano Pirandola , Paola Verrucchi , Leonardo Banchi

Quantum computers promise considerable speedups over classical approaches, which has raised interest from many disciplines. Since any currently available implementations suffer from noise and imperfections, achieving concrete speedups for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Felix Greiwe , Tom Krüger , Wolfgang Mauerer

Quantum optimization algorithms (QOAs) have the potential to fundamentally transform the application of optimization methods in decision making. For certain classes of optimization problems, it is widely believed that QOA enables…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Florian Klug

Quantum algorithms have the potential to provide exponential speedups over some of the best known classical algorithms. These speedups may enable quantum devices to solve currently intractable problems such as those in the fields of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Ciarán Ryan-Anderson

In this work we introduce an open source suite of quantum application-oriented performance benchmarks that is designed to measure the effectiveness of quantum computing hardware at executing quantum applications. These benchmarks probe a…

Quantum computing harnesses quantum laws of nature to enable new types of algorithms, not efficiently possible on traditional computers, that may lead to breakthroughs in crucial areas like materials science and chemistry. There is rapidly…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-10-16 Mariia Mykhailova , Krysta M. Svore

Context. Quantum computing is becoming a reality, and quantum software engineering (QSE) is emerging as a new discipline to enable developers to design and develop quantum programs. Objective. This paper presents a systematic mapping study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Manuel De Stefano , Fabiano Pecorelli , Dario Di Nucci , Fabio Palomba , Andrea De Lucia

Quantum computation appears to offer significant advantages over classical computation and this has generated a tremendous interest in the field. In this thesis we consider the application of quantum computers to scientific computing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-10 Stuart Hadfield

Quantum simulation is a leading candidate for demonstrating practical quantum advantage over classical computation, as it is believed to provide exponentially more compute power than any classical system. It offers new means of studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Maja Franz , Lukas Schmidbauer , Joshua Ammermann , Ina Schaefer , Wolfgang Mauerer

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize multiple fields by solving complex problems that can not be solved in reasonable time with current classical computers. Nevertheless, the development of quantum computers is still in its…

While recent progress in quantum hardware open the door for significant speedup in certain key areas (cryptography, biology, chemistry, optimization, machine learning, etc), quantum algorithms are still hard to implement right, and the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Christophe Chareton , Sébastien Bardin , Dongho Lee , Benoît Valiron , Renaud Vilmart , Zhaowei Xu

Quantum computing is emerging as a new computing resource that could be superior to conventional computing for certain classes of optimization problems. However, in principle, most existing approaches to quantum optimization are intended to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Chin-Yao Chang , Eric Jones , Yiyun Yao , Peter Graf , Rishabh Jain

Quantum mechanical problems are among the hardest to simulate and, in some cases, remain intractable even for the most powerful computers. Quantum computing has emerged as a new technological platform to address such challenges, with rapid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Alexander Miessen

The advent of quantum algorithms has initiated a discourse on the potential for quantum speedups for optimization problems. However, several factors still hinder a practical realization of the potential benefits. These include the lack of…