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A dataflow programming framework for linear optical distributed quantum computing

Giovanni de Felice, Boldizsár Poór, Cole Comfort, Lia Yeh, Mateusz Kupper, William Cashman, Bob Coecke2026-01-13T09:57 Score: 0.49
Photonic systems offer a promising platform for interconnecting quantum processors and enabling scalable, networked architectures. Designing and verifying such architectures requires a unified formali...

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Geometry- and Topology-Informed Quantum Computing: From States to Real-Time Control with FPGA Prototypes

Gunhee ChoPublished: 2026-01-14
This book gives a geometry-first, hardware-aware route through quantum-information workflows, with one goal: connect states, circuits, and measurement to deterministic classical pipelines that make hybrid quantum systems run. Part 1 develops the backbone (essential linear algebra, the Bloch-sphere viewpoint, differential-geometric intuition, and quantum Fisher information geometry) so evolution ca...

Universal Quantum Computation via Superposed Orders of Single-Qubit Gates

Kyrylo Simonov, Marcello Caleffi, Jessica Illiano, Jacquiline Romero, Angela Sara CacciapuotiPublished: 2023-11-22
Superposed orders of quantum channels have already been proved - both theoretically and experimentally - to enable unparalleled opportunities in the quantum communication domain. As a matter of fact, superposition of orders can be exploited within the quantum computing domain as well, by relaxing the (traditional) assumption underlying quantum computation about applying gates in a well-defined cau...

Network-Based Quantum Computing: an efficient design framework for many-small-node distributed fault-tolerant quantum computing

Soshun Naito, Yasunari Suzuki, Yuuki TokunagaPublished: 2026-01-14
In fault-tolerant quantum computing, a large number of physical qubits are required to construct a single logical qubit, and a single quantum node may be able to hold only a small number of logical qubits. In such a case, the idea of distributed fault-tolerant quantum computing (DFTQC) is important to demonstrate large-scale quantum computation using small-scale nodes. However, the design of distr...

Quantum Computing -- Strategic Recommendations for the Industry

Marvin Erdmann, Lukas Karch, Abhishek Awasthi, Caitlin Isobel Jones, Pallavi Bhardwaj, Florian Krellner, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Nico Kraus, Peter Eder, Sarah Braun, Tong LiuPublished: 2026-01-13
This whitepaper surveys the current landscape and short- to mid-term prospects for quantum-enabled optimization and machine learning use cases in industrial settings. Grounded in the QCHALLenge program, it synthesizes hardware trajectories from different quantum architectures and providers, and assesses their maturity and potential for real-world use cases under a standardized traffic-light evalua...

Symmetry-Adapted State Preparation for Quantum Chemistry on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers

Viktor Khinevich, Wataru MizukamiPublished: 2026-01-13
We present systematic and resource-efficient constructions of continuous symmetry projectors, particularly $U(1)$ particle number and $SU(2)$ total spin, tailored for fault-tolerant quantum computations. Our approach employs a linear combination of unitaries (LCU) as well as generalized quantum signal processing (GQSP and GQSVT) to implement projectors. These projectors can then be coherently appl...

A dataflow programming framework for linear optical distributed quantum computing

Giovanni de Felice, Boldizsár Poór, Cole Comfort, Lia Yeh, Mateusz Kupper, William Cashman, Bob CoeckePublished: 2026-01-13
Photonic systems offer a promising platform for interconnecting quantum processors and enabling scalable, networked architectures. Designing and verifying such architectures requires a unified formalism that integrates linear algebraic reasoning with probabilistic and control-flow structures. In this work, we introduce a graphical framework for distributed quantum computing that brings together li...

Dissipative ground-state preparation of a quantum spin chain on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Kazuhiro Seki, Yuta Kikuchi, Tomoya Hayata, Seiji YunokiPublished: 2026-01-13
We demonstrate a dissipative protocol for ground-state preparation of a quantum spin chain on a trapped-ion quantum computer. As a first step, we derive a Kraus representation of a dissipation channel for the protocol recently proposed by Ding et al. [Phys. Rev. Res. 6, 033147 (2024)] that still holds for arbitrary temporal discretization steps, extending the analysis beyond the Lindblad dynamics ...

Mechanical Resonator-based Quantum Computing

Yu Yang, Igor Kladaric, Martynas Skrabulis, Michael Eichenberger, Stefano Marti, Simon Storz, Jonathan Esche, Raquel Garcia Belles, Max-Emanuel Kern, Andraz Omahen, Arianne Brooks, Marius Bild, Mateo Fadel, Yiwen ChuPublished: 2026-01-12
Hybrid quantum systems combine the unique advantages of different physical platforms with the goal of realizing more powerful and practical quantum information processing devices. Mechanical systems, such as bulk acoustic wave resonators, feature a large number of highly coherent harmonic modes in a compact footprint, which complements the strong nonlinearities and fast operation times of supercon...

Thermodynamic Recycling in Quantum Computing: Demonstration Using the Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd Algorithm and Information Erasure

Nobumasa Ishida, Yoshihiko HasegawaPublished: 2026-01-12
Branch selection, including postselection, is a standard method for implementing nonunitary transformations in quantum algorithms. Conventionally, states associated with unsuccessful branches are discarded and treated as useless. Here we propose a generic framework that reuses these failure branches as thermodynamic resources. The central element is an athermal bath that is naturally generated dur...

Fault-tolerant modular quantum computing with surface codes using single-shot emission-based hardware

Siddhant Singh, Rikiya Kashiwagi, Kazufumi Tanji, Wojciech Roga, Daniel Bhatti, Masahiro Takeoka, David ElkoussPublished: 2026-01-12
Fault-tolerant modular quantum computing requires stabilizer measurements across the modules in a quantum network. For this, entangled states of high quality and rate must be distributed. Currently, two main types of entanglement distribution protocols exist, namely emission-based and scattering-based, each with its own advantages and drawbacks. On the one hand, scattering-based protocols with cav...

🏢 Company Papers

Effects of electron-electron interaction and spin-orbit coupling on Andreev pair qubits in quantum dot Josephson junctions

Teodor Iličin, Rok ŽitkoPublished: 2025-12-28
We investigate the superconducting Anderson impurity model for interacting quantum dot Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling and a term accounting for tunnelling through higher-energy orbitals. These elements establish the conditions required for spin polarization in the absence of external magnetic field at finite superconducting phase bias. This Hamiltonian has been previously used to mod...

e-Profits: A Business-Aligned Evaluation Metric for Profit-Sensitive Customer Churn Prediction

Awais Manzoor, M. Atif Qureshi, Etain Kidney, Luca LongoPublished: 2025-07-09
Retention campaigns in customer relationship management often rely on churn prediction models evaluated using traditional metrics such as AUC and F1-score. However, these metrics fail to reflect financial outcomes and may mislead strategic decisions. We introduce e-Profits, a novel business-aligned evaluation metric that quantifies model performance based on customer lifetime value, retention prob...

Reservoir-Engineered Refrigeration of a Superconducting Cavity with Double-Quantum-Dot Spin Qubits

Daryoosh Vashaee, Jahanfar AbouiePublished: 2026-01-14
We present an analytically tractable theory of reservoir-engineered refrigeration of a superconducting microwave cavity and map it onto a realistic solid-state implementation based on gate-defined double-quantum-dot (DQD) spin qubits. Treating the DQD not as a spectroscopic element but as a tunable engineered reservoir, we show how gate control of populations, coherences, linewidths, and detuning ...

Engineering Compressed Matrix Multiplication with the Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform

Joel Andersson, Matti KarppaPublished: 2026-01-14
We present an implementation of Pagh's compressed matrix multiplication algorithm, a randomized algorithm that constructs sketches of matrices to compute an unbiased estimate of their product. By leveraging fast polynomial multiplication via the FFT, the algorithm achieves high performance when the product matrix is sparse or contains only a small number of entries with magnitudes significantly la...

Offset Charge Dependence of Measurement-Induced Transitions in Transmons

Mathieu Féchant, Marie Frédérique Dumas, Denis Bénâtre, Nicolas Gosling, Philipp Lenhard, Martin Spiecker, Simon Geisert, Sören Ihssen, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Benjamin D'Anjou, Alexandre Blais, Ioan M. PopPublished: 2025-05-01
A key challenge in achieving scalable fault tolerance in superconducting quantum processors is readout fidelity, which lags behind one- and two-qubit gate fidelity. A major limitation in improving qubit readout is measurement-induced transitions, also referred to as qubit ionization, caused by multiphoton qubit-resonator excitation occurring at specific photon numbers. Since ionization can involve...

Measuring pulse heating in Si quantum dots with individual two-level fluctuators

Feiyang Ye, Lokendra S. Dhami, John M. NicholPublished: 2025-09-13
To encode quantum information in semiconductor spin qubits, voltage pulses are necessary for initialization, gate operation, and readout. However, these pulses dissipate heat, shifting spin-qubit frequencies and reducing gate fidelities. The cause of this pulse heating in quantum-dot devices is unknown. Here, we measure pulse heating using charged two-level fluctuators (TLFs) in Si/SiGe quantum do...

Regulatory gray areas of LLM Terms

Brittany I. Davidson, Kate Muir, Florian A. D. Burnat, Adam N. JoinsonPublished: 2026-01-13
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into academic research pipelines; however, the Terms of Service governing their use remain under-examined. We present a comparative analysis of the Terms of Service of five major LLM providers (Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, OpenAI, and xAI) collected in November 2025. Our analysis reveals substantial variation in the stringency and specificit...

Classical combinations of quantum states for solving banded circulant linear systems

Po-Wei Huang, Xiufan Li, Kelvin Koor, Patrick RebentrostPublished: 2023-09-20
Solving linear systems is of great importance in numerous fields. Proposed quantum algorithms for preparing solutions for linear systems include the HHL algorithm with subsequent refinements and variational methods. Circulant linear systems appear in many physics-related differential equations. An interesting case is banded circulant linear systems whose non-zero terms are within distance K of the...

📚 Highlighted Papers

Quantum enhanced Monte Carlo simulation for photon interaction cross sections

Authors: Euimin Lee, Sangmin Lee, Shiho KimSubmitted: Submitted arXiv: arXiv:2502.14374
Abstract: …as the dominant attenuation mechanism, we demonstrate that our approach reproduces classical probability distributions with high fidelity. Simulation results obtained via the IBM Qiskit quantum simulator reveal a quadratic speedup in amplitude estimation compared to conventional Monte C...

Time-adaptive single-shot crosstalk detector on superconducting quantum computer

Authors: Haiyue Kang, Benjamin Harper, Muhammad Usman, Martin SeviorSubmitted: Submitted arXiv: arXiv:2502.14225
Abstract: …in two scenarios: simulation using an artificial noise model with gate-induced crosstalk and always-on idlings channels; and the simulation using noise sampled from an IBM quantum computer parametrised by the reduced HSA error model. The presented results show our method's efficacy hing...

Quantum simulation of a qubit with non-Hermitian Hamiltonian

Authors: Anastashia Jebraeilli, Michael R. GellerSubmitted: Submitted arXiv: arXiv:2502.13910
Abstract: …-broken regime surrounding an exceptional point. Quantum simulations are carried out using IBM superconducting qubits. The results underscore the potential for variational quantum circuits and machine learning to push the boundaries of quantum simulation, offering new methods for explor...

Comment on "Energy-speed relationship of quantum particles challenges Bohmian mechanics"

Aurélien Drezet, Dustin Lazarovici, Bernard Michael Nabet
In their recent paper [Nature 643, 67 (2025)], Sharaglazova et al. report an optical microcavity experiment yielding an "energy-speed relationship" for quantum particles in evanescent states, which they infer from the observed population transfer between two coupled waveguides. The authors argue tha...