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Quantum computing often requires classical data to be supplied to execution environments that may not be fully trusted or isolated. While encryption protects data at rest and in transit, it provides limited protection once computation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Amal Raj , Vivek Balachandran

Achieving reliable performance on early fault-tolerant quantum hardware will depend on protocols that manage noise without incurring prohibitive overhead. We propose a novel framework that integrates quantum computation with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 IlKwon Sohn , Changyeol Lee , Wooyeong Song , Kwangil Bae , Wonhyuk Lee

We present a new template for building oblivious transfer from quantum information that we call the "fixed basis" framework. Our framework departs from prior work (eg., Crepeau and Kilian, FOCS '88) by fixing the correct choice of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Amit Agarwal , James Bartusek , Dakshita Khurana , Nishant Kumar

We give a comprehensive characterization of the computational power of shallow quantum circuits combined with classical computation. Specifically, for classes of search problems, we show that the following statements hold, relative to a…

We present a classically solvable model that leads to optimized low-depth quantum circuits leveraging separable pair approximations. The obtained circuits are well suited as a baseline circuit for emerging quantum hardware and can, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-07 Jakob S. Kottmann , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs), or the so-called quantum neural-networks, are predicted to be one of the most important near-term quantum applications, not only because of their similar promises as classical neural-networks, but also…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Shaopeng Zhu , Shih-Han Hung , Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Xiaodi Wu

Alternative Current Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF) is essential for efficient power system planning and real-time operation but remains an NP-hard and non-convex optimization problem with significant computational challenges. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Ze Hu , Ziqing Zhu , Linghua Zhu , Xiang Wei , Siqi Bu , Ka Wing Chan

Many standard linear algebra problems can be solved on a quantum computer by using recently developed quantum linear algebra algorithms that make use of block encodings and quantum eigenvalue/singular value transformations. A block encoding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Daan Camps , Lin Lin , Roel Van Beeumen , Chao Yang

Unlike fixed designs, programmable circuit designs support an infinite number of operators. The functionality of a programmable circuit can be altered by simply changing the angle values of the rotation gates in the circuit. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Anmer Daskin , Ananth Grama , Giorgos Kollias , Sabre Kais

Constructing general programmable circuits to be able to run any given unitary operator efficiently on a quantum processor is of fundamental importance. We present a new quantum circuit design technique resulting two general programmable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-24 Anmer Daskin , Ananth Grama , Giorgos Kollias , Sabre Kais

Decoherence of quantum hardware is currently limiting its practical applications. At the same time, classical algorithms for simulating quantum circuits have progressed substantially. Here, we demonstrate a hybrid framework that integrates…

Arbitrary exponentially large unitaries cannot be implemented efficiently by quantum circuits. However, we show that quantum circuits can efficiently implement any unitary provided it has at most polynomially many nonzero entries in any row…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Stephen P. Jordan , Pawel Wocjan

Recent years have seen unprecedented advance in the design and control of quantum computers. Nonetheless, their applicability is still restricted and access remains expensive. Therefore, a substantial amount of quantum algorithms research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 Thomas Grurl , Richard Kueng , Jürgen Fuß , Robert Wille

Open set anomaly detection (OSAD) is a crucial task that aims to identify abnormal patterns or behaviors in data sets, especially when the anomalies observed during training do not represent all possible classes of anomalies. The recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yifeng Peng , Xinyi Li , Zhiding Liang , Ying Wang

Quantum computation offers a promising alternative to classical computing methods in many areas of numerical science, with algorithms that make use of the unique way in which quantum computers store and manipulate data often achieving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Christopher D. Phillips , Vladimir I. Okhmatovski

Program obfuscation is a widely employed approach for software intellectual property protection. However, general obfuscation methods (e.g., lexical obfuscation, control obfuscation) implemented in mainstream obfuscation tools are heuristic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou , Yu Kang , Michael R. Lyu

Uncomputation is an essential part of reversible computing and plays a vital role in quantum computing. Using this technique, memory resources can be safely deallocated without performing a nonreversible deletion process. For the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Raphael Seidel , Nikolay Tcholtchev , Sebastian Bock , Manfred Hauswirth

Algorithms with unitary oracles can be nested, which makes them extremely versatile. An example is the phase estimation algorithm used in many candidate algorithms for quantum speed-up. The search for new quantum algorithms benefits from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Zuzana Gavorová , Matan Seidel , Yonathan Touati

State-of-the-art classical optimization solvers set a high bar for quantum computers to deliver utility in this domain. Here, we introduce a quantum preconditioning approach based on the quantum approximate optimization algorithm. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Maxime Dupont , Tina Oberoi , Bhuvanesh Sundar

In this paper, we present a unified computational method based on pseudospectral approximations for the design of optimal pulse sequences in open quantum systems. The proposed method transforms the problem of optimal pulse design, which is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 Jr-Shin Li , Justin Ruths , Dionisis Stefanatos