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Recent advances in quantum architectures and computing have motivated the development of new optimizing compilers for quantum programs or circuits. Even though steady progress has been made, existing quantum optimization techniques remain…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jatin Arora , Mingkuan Xu , Sam Westrick , Pengyu Liu , Dantong Li , Yongshan Ding , Umut A. Acar

Simulating open quantum systems on quantum computers presents a fundamental challenge: open quantum dynamics are intrinsically nonunitary, whereas quantum computers operate through unitary evolution. Conventional approaches overcome this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Sameer Dambal , Akira Sone , Yu Zhang

Quantum secret-sharing and quantum error-correction schemes rely on multipartite decoding protocols, yet the non-local operations involved are challenging and sometimes infeasible. Here we construct a quantum secret-sharing protocol with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Vlad Gheorghiu , Barry C. Sanders

The quantum backtracking algorithm proposed by Ashley Montanaro raised considerable interest, as it provides a quantum speed-up for a large class of classical optimization algorithms. It does not suffer from Barren-Plateaus and transfers…

We present Stochastic Optical Quantum Circuit Simulator (SOQCS) C++/Python library for the simulation of quantum optical circuits, and we provide its implementation details. SOQCS offers a framework to define, simulate and study quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Javier Osca , Jiri Vala

Fault injection attacks deliberately inject faults into a device via physical channels to disturb its regular execution. Adversaries can effectively deduce secrets by analyzing both the normal and faulty outputs, posing serious threats to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xi Yang , Taolue Chen , Yuqi Chen , Fu Song , Chundong Wang , Zhilin Wu

Reversing unitary operations is a key task in quantum computing and quantum control. In this work, we introduce and develop the framework of shadow unitary inversion, a relaxed variant of unitary inversion in which the goal is to reproduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Guocheng Zhen , Yu-Ao Chen , Mingrui Jing , Jingu Xie , Ranyiliu Chen , Xin Wang

The universal quantum computer is a device capable of simulating any physical system and represents a major goal for the field of quantum information science. Algorithms performed on such a device are predicted to offer significant gains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 D. Hanneke , J. P. Home , J. D. Jost , J. M. Amini , D. Leibfried , D. J. Wineland

Quantum error correction is necessary to perform large-scale quantum computations in the presence of noise and decoherence. As a result, several aspects of quantum error correction have already been explored. These have been primarily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Ariel Shlosberg , Anthony M. Polloreno , Graeme Smith

Ubiquitous in quantum computing is the step to encode data into a quantum state. This process is called quantum state preparation, and its complexity for non-structured data is exponential on the number of qubits. Several works address this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Israel F. Araujo , Carsten Blank , Ismael C. S. Araújo , Adenilton J. da Silva

The theory of quantum algorithms promises unprecedented benefits of harnessing the laws of quantum mechanics for solving certain computational problems. A persistent obstacle to using such algorithms for solving a wide range of real-world…

Stochastic convex optimization problems with nonlinear functional constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing applications including constrained least-squares, set-membership adaptive filtering, and trajectory optimization under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Panchajanya Sanyal , Srujan Teja Thomdapu , Ketan Rajawat

The ultimate objective of this paper is to create a stepping stone to the development of new quantum algorithms. The strategy chosen is to begin by focusing on the class of abelian quantum hidden subgroup algorithms, i.e., the class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 Samuel J. Lomonaco, , Louis H. Kauffman

We present a classical algorithm for approximating the expectation values of observables in linear-optical circuits with arbitrary product input states, achieving additive-error accuracy. This result indicates that current applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Youngrong Lim , Changhun Oh

While recent progress in quantum hardware open the door for significant speedup in certain key areas, quantum algorithms are still hard to implement right, and the validation of such quantum programs is a challenge. Early attempts either…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Christophe Chareton , Sébastien Bardin , François Bobot , Valentin Perrelle , Benoit Valiron

A universal quantum processor is a device that takes as input a (quantum) program, containing an encoding of an arbitrary unitary gate, and a (quantum) data register, on which the encoded gate is applied. While no perfect universal quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Yuxiang Yang , Renato Renner , Giulio Chiribella

Based on the linearity of quantum unitary operations, we propose a method that runs the parameterized quantum circuits before encoding the input data. This enables a dataset owner to train machine learning models on quantum cloud…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Guang Ping He

Undoing a unitary operation, $i.e$. reversing its action, is the task of canceling the effects of a unitary evolution on a quantum system, and it may be easily achieved when the unitary is known. Given a unitary operation without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Qin Feng , Tianfeng Feng , Yuling Tian , Maolin Luo , Xiaoqi Zhou

Quantum data encoding (QDE) enables faster com-putations than classical algorithms through superposition and en-tanglement. Circuit cutting and knitting are effective techniques for ameliorating current noisy quantum processing unit (QPUs)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Ziqing Guo , Jan Balewski , Kewen Xiao , Ziwen Pan

Recent active studies have demonstrated that cryptography without one-way functions (OWFs) could be possible in the quantum world. Many fundamental primitives that are natural quantum analogs of OWFs or pseudorandom generators (PRGs) have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Minki Hhan , Shogo Yamada