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Molecular docking is a critical process for drug discovery and challenging due to the complexity and size of biomolecular systems, where the optimal binding configuration of a drug to a target protein is determined. Hybrid classical-quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Christos Papalitsas , Yanfei Guan , Shreyas Waghe , Athanasios Liakos , Ioannis Balatsos , Vassilios Pantazopoulos

Quantum computing promises solutions to classically difficult and new-found problems through controlling the subtleties of quantum computing. The Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm (QAOA) is a recently proposed quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Nicholas J. Pritchard

Digitized adiabatic quantum factorization is a hybrid algorithm that exploits the advantage of digitized quantum computers to implement efficient adiabatic algorithms for factorization through gate decompositions of analog evolutions. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Felip Pellicer , Juan José García-Ripoll , Alan C. Santos

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a promising variational quantum algorithm introduced to tackle classically intractable combinatorial optimization problems. This tutorial offers a comprehensive, first-principles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Alessandro Giovagnoli

We apply digitized Quantum Annealing (QA) and Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) to a paradigmatic task of supervised learning in artificial neural networks: the optimization of synaptic weights for the binary perceptron. At…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Pietro Torta , Glen B. Mbeng , Carlo Baldassi , Riccardo Zecchina , Giuseppe E. Santoro

Quantum computing has demonstrated its potential to solve various optimization problems, including drone scheduling, which is important not only for drone delivery but also for logistics in general. However, one of the main obstacles is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Van-Quang-Huy Nguyen , Hoang-Quan Nguyen , Samee U. Khan , Ilya Safro , Khoa Luu

The bin packing problem, a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization challenge, has emerged as a promising candidate for quantum computing applications. In this work, we address the one-dimensional bin packing problem (1dBPP) using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ruoqian Xu , Sebastián V. Romero , Jialiang Tang , Yue Ban , Xi Chen

Solving real-world optimization problems with quantum computing requires choosing between a large number of options concerning formulation, encoding, algorithm and hardware. Finding good solution paths is challenging for end users and…

Current state-of-the-art quantum optimization algorithms require representing the original problem as a binary optimization problem, which is then converted into an equivalent cost Hamiltonian suitable for the quantum device. Implementing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Bence Bakó , Adam Glos , Özlem Salehi , Zoltán Zimborás

Variational algorithm using Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) can solve the prime factorization problem in near-term noisy quantum computers. Conventional Variational Quantum Factoring (VQF) requires a large number of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Ling Qiu , Mahabubul Alam , Abdullah Ash-Saki , Swaroop Ghosh

Today, hardware constraints are an important limitation on quantum adiabatic optimization algorithms. Firstly, computational problems must be formulated as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) in the presence of noisy coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Andrew Lucas

To date, research in quantum computation promises potential for outperforming classical heuristics in combinatorial optimization. However, when aiming at provable optimality, one has to rely on classical exact methods like integer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Friedrich Wagner , Jonas Nüßlein , Frauke Liers

Among variational quantum algorithms designed for NISQ devices, ADAPT-VQE stands out for its robustness against barren plateaus, particularly in estimating molecular ground states. On the other hand, counterdiabatic algorithms have shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Diego Tancara , Herbert Díaz-Moraga , Dardo Goyeneche

Qubit-based variational quantum algorithms have undergone rapid development in recent years but still face several challenges. In this context, we propose a symmetry-enhanced digitized counterdiabatic quantum algorithm utilizing qudits…

Quantum adiabatic algorithms are commonly analyzed through local spectral properties of an interpolating Hamiltonian, most notably the minimum energy gap. While this perspective captures an important constraint on adiabatic runtimes, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Prathamesh S. Joshi

Proposed hybrid algorithms encode a combinatorial cost function into a problem Hamiltonian and optimize its energy by varying over a set of states with low circuit complexity. Classical processing is typically only used for the choice of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Libor Caha , Alexander Kliesch , Robert Koenig

With the steady progress in quantum computing over recent years, roadmaps for upscaling quantum processors have relied heavily on the targeted qubit architectures. So far, similarly to the early age of classical computing, these designs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Wan-Hsuan Lin , Bochen Tan , Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Jason Kimko , Jason Cong

Quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is one of the popular quantum algorithms that are used to solve combinatorial optimization problems via approximations. QAOA is able to be evaluated on both physical and virtual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 Yu-Cheng Lin , Chuan-Chi Wang , Chia-Heng Tu , Shih-Hao Hung

This paper proposes a quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) method for wireless scheduling problems. The QAOA is one of the promising hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for many applications and it provides highly accurate…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Jaeho Choi , Seunghyeok Oh , Joongheon Kim

Many classical optimization problems can be mapped to finding the ground states of diagonal Ising Hamiltonians, for which variational quantum algorithms such as the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) provide heuristic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Yanzhu Chen , Linghua Zhu , Chenxu Liu , Nicholas J. Mayhall , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou