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Gate model quantum computers with too many qubits to be simulated by available classical computers are about to arrive. We present a strategy for programming these devices without error correction or compilation. This means that the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 E. Farhi , J. Goldstone , S. Gutmann , H. Neven

Ising spin Hamiltonians are often used to encode a computational problem in their ground states. Quantum Annealing (QA) computing searches for such a state by implementing a slow time-dependent evolution from an easy-to-prepare initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Bin Yan , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

We present an extension of Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) algorithm for the unstructured search to the case when the number of marked items is unknown. The algorithm maintains the optimal Grover speedup and includes a small counting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Zhenwei Cao , Alexander Elgart

We propose a hybrid classical-quantum digitized-counterdiabatic algorithm to tackle the protein folding problem on a tetrahedral lattice. Digitized-counterdiabatic quantum computing is a paradigm developed to compress quantum algorithms via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Pranav Chandarana , Narendra N. Hegade , Iraitz Montalban , Enrique Solano , Xi Chen

Adiabatic quantum computation employs a slow change of a time-dependent control function (or functions) to interpolate between an initial and final Hamiltonian, which helps to keep the system in the instantaneous ground state. When the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-26 Constantin Brif , Matthew D. Grace , Mohan Sarovar , Kevin C. Young

We point out that, when an optimization problem has more than one solution, the quantum adiabatic algorithms (QAA) encounter topological obstructions leading to adiabatic spectral flows where spectral branches unavoidably traverse the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Prathamesh S. Joshi , Emil Prodan

The adiabatic quantum computation is a universal and robust method of quantum computing. In this architecture, the problem can be solved by adiabatically evolving the quantum processor from the ground state of a simple initial Hamiltonian…

An explicit algorithm for the travelling salesman problem is constructed in the framework of adiabatic quantum computation, AQC. The initial Hamiltonian for the AQC process admits canonical coherent states as the ground state, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Tien D. Kieu

Adiabatic evolution is a powerful technique in quantum information and computation. However, its performance is limited by the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics. In this scenario, shortcuts to adiabaticity, such as provided by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-17 Alan C. Santos

We present a new technique for efficiently transitioning a quantum system from an initial to a final stationary state in less time than is required by an adiabatic (quasi-static) process. Our approach makes use of Nelson's stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Vincent Hardel , Giovanni Manfredi , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Rémi Goerlich

Developing quantum algorithms adaptive to specific constraints of near-term devices is an essential step towards practical quantum advantage. In a recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 103601(2023)], we show cold atoms in an optical cavity can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Yuchen Luo , Xiaopeng Li , Jian Lin

In this paper we analyze the performance of the Quantum Adiabatic Evolution algorithm on a variant of Satisfiability problem for an ensemble of random graphs parametrized by the ratio of clauses to variables, $\gamma=M/N$. We introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. N. Smelyanskiy , S. Knysh , R. D. Morris

In his famous 1981 talk, Feynman proposed that unlike classical computers, which would presumably experience an exponential slowdown when simulating quantum phenomena, a universal quantum simulator would not. An ideal quantum simulator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 J. D. Biamonte , V. Bergholm , J. D. Whitfield , J. Fitzsimons , A. Aspuru-Guzik

The majorization theory has been applied to analyze the mathematical structure of quantum algorithms. An empirical conclusion by numerical simulations obtained in the previous literature indicates that step-by-step majorization seems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-02 Zhaohui Wei , Zhengfeng Ji , Mingsheng Ying

We present a quantum algorithm for adiabatic state preparation on a gate-based quantum computer, with complexity polylogarithmic in the inverse error. Our algorithm digitally simulates the adiabatic evolution between two self-adjoint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Kianna Wan , Isaac H. Kim

Quantum computing promises significant improvements of computation capabilities in various fields such as machine learning and complex optimization problems. Recent technological advancements suggest that the adiabatic quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Veit Stooß , Martin Ulmke , Felix Govaers

The solution of linear systems of equations is the basis of many other quantum algorithms, and recent results provided an algorithm with optimal scaling in both the condition number $\kappa$ and the allowable error $\epsilon$ [PRX Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Pedro C. S. Costa , Dong An , Ryan Babbush , Dominic Berry

Adiabatic state engineering is a powerful technique in quantum information and quantum control. However, its performance is limited by the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics. In this scenario, shortcuts to adiabaticity, such as provided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Alan C. Santos , Marcelo S. Sarandy

We have developed a general technique to study the dynamics of the quantum adiabatic evolution algorithm applied to random combinatorial optimization problems in the asymptotic limit of large problem size $n$. We use as an example the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Udo v. Toussaint , Dogan A. Timucin

Two recent preprints [B. Altshuler, H. Krovi, and J. Roland, "Quantum adiabatic optimization fails for random instances of NP-complete problems", arXiv:0908.2782 and "Anderson localization casts clouds over adiabatic quantum optimization",…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 S. Knysh , V. Smelyanskiy