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Quantum Computer Controlled by Superconducting Digital Electronics at Millikelvin Temperature

Caleb Jordan, Jacob Bernhardt, Joseph Rahamim, Alex Kirichenko, Karthik Bharadwaj, Louis Fry-Bouriaux, Aaron Somoroff, Katie Porsch, Kan-Ting Tsai, Jason Walter, Adam Weis, Meng-Ju Yu, Mario Renzullo, Jerome Javelle, Chris Checkley, Oleg Mukhanov, Daniel Yohannes, Igor Vernik, Shu-Jen HanPublished: 2025-03-12
Current superconducting quantum computing platforms face significant scaling challenges, as individual signal lines are required for control of each qubit. This wiring overhead is a result of the low level of integration between control electronics at room temperature and qubits operating at millikelvin temperatures, which raise serious doubts among technologists about whether utility-scale quantu...

Kaiwu-PyTorch-Plugin: Bridging Deep Learning and Photonic Quantum Computing for Energy-Based Models and Active Sample Selection

Hongdong Zhu, Qi Gao, Yin Ma, Shaobo Chen, Haixu Liu, Fengao Wang, Tinglan Wang, Chang Wu, Kai WenPublished: 2026-02-22
This paper introduces the Kaiwu-PyTorch-Plugin (KPP) to bridge Deep Learning and Photonic Quantum Computing across multiple dimensions. KPP integrates the Coherent Ising Machine into the PyTorch ecosystem, addressing classical inefficiencies in Energy-Based Models. The framework facilitates quantum integration in three key aspects: accelerating Boltzmann sampling, optimizing training data via Acti...

Separating Non-Interactive Classical Verification of Quantum Computation from Falsifiable Assumptions

Mohammed Barhoush, Tomoyuki Morimae, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi YamakawaPublished: 2026-02-20
Mahadev [SIAM J. Comput. 2022] introduced the first protocol for classical verification of quantum computation based on the Learning-with-Errors (LWE) assumption, achieving a 4-message interactive scheme. This breakthrough naturally raised the question of whether fewer messages are possible in the plain model. Despite its importance, this question has remained unresolved. In this work, we prove ...

Quantum superresolution and noise spectroscopy with quantum computing

James W. Gardner, Federico Belliardo, Gideon Lee, Tuvia Gefen, Liang JiangPublished: 2026-02-19
Quantum metrology of an incoherent signal is a canonical sensing problem related to superresolution and noise spectroscopy. We show that quantum computing can accelerate searches for a weak incoherent signal when the signal and noise are not precisely known. In particular, we consider weak Schur sampling, density matrix exponentiation, and quantum signal processing for testing the rank, purity, an...

Free Quantum Computing

Jacques Carette, Chris Heunen, Robin Kaarsgaard, Neil J. Ross, Amr SabryPublished: 2026-02-18
Quantum computing improves substantially on known classical algorithms for various important problems, but the nature of the relationship between quantum and classical computing is not yet fully understood. This relationship can be clarified by free models, that add to classical computing just enough physical principles to represent quantum computing and no more. Here we develop an axiomatisation ...

Illustration of Barren Plateaus in Quantum Computing

Gerhard Stenzel, Tobias Rohe, Michael Kölle, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-PopienPublished: 2026-02-18
Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for quantum machine learning in the NISQ era. While parameter sharing in VQCs can reduce the parameter space dimensionality and potentially mitigate the barren plateau phenomenon, it introduces a complex trade-off that has been largely overlooked. This paper investigates how parameter sharing, despite creating better global o...

MerLean: An Agentic Framework for Autoformalization in Quantum Computation

Yuanjie Ren, Jinzheng Li, Yidi QiPublished: 2026-02-18
We introduce MerLean, a fully automated agentic framework for autoformalization in quantum computation. MerLean extracts mathematical statements from \LaTeX{} source files, formalizes them into verified Lean~4 code built on Mathlib, and translates the result back into human-readable \LaTeX{} for semantic review. We evaluate MerLean on three theoretical quantum computing papers producing 2,050 Lean...

Magnetic resonance in quantum computing and in accurate measurements of the nuclear moments of atoms and molecules

Zhichen Liu, Richard A. KlemmPublished: 2026-02-11
Modern experimental techniques can generate magnetic fields of the form H(t) = H0 z-hat + H1 [x-hat cos(ωt) + y-hat sin(ωt)], at frequencies within an order of magnitude of the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) frequencies, ωn0 and ωe0, respectively, when acting on atoms or molecules. We derive simple closed-form expressions for the exact nuclear- and elect...

Resource-Efficient Hadamard Test Tailored Variational Framework for Nonlinear Dynamics on Quantum Computers

Eleftherios Mastorakis, Muhammad Umer, Milena Guevara-Bertsch, Juris Ulmanis, Felix Rohde, Dimitris G. AngelakisPublished: 2025-07-25
Resource-efficient, low-depth implementations of quantum circuits remain a promising strategy for achieving reliable and scalable computation on quantum hardware, as they reduce gate resources and limit the accumulation of noisy operations. Here, we propose a low-depth implementation of a class of Hadamard test circuits, complemented by the development of a parameterized quantum ansatz specificall...

Superconducting pairing correlations on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Etienne Granet, Sheng-Hsuan Lin, Kevin Hémery, Reza Haghshenas, Pablo Andres-Martinez, David T. Stephen, Anthony Ransford, Jake Arkinstall, M. S. Allman, Pete Campora, Samuel F. Cooper, Robert D. Delaney, Joan M. Dreiling, Brian Estey, Caroline Figgatt, Cameron Foltz, John P. Gaebler, Alex Hall, Ali Husain, Akhil Isanaka, Colin J. Kennedy, Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Ivaylo S. Madjarov, Michael Mills, Alistair R. Milne, Annie J. Park, Adam P. Reed, Brian Neyenhuis, Justin G. Bohnet, Michael Foss-Feig, Andrew C. Potter, Ramil Nigmatullin, Mohsin Iqbal, Henrik DreyerPublished: 2025-11-03
The Fermi-Hubbard model is the starting point for the simulation of many strongly correlated materials, including high-temperature superconductors, whose modelling is a key motivation for the construction of quantum simulation and computing devices. However, the detection of superconducting pairing correlations has so far remained out of reach, both because of their off-diagonal character - which ...

🏢 Company Papers

Experimental characterization of coherent and non-Markovian errors using tangent space decomposition

Elia Perego, Andrea Rodriguez-Blanco, K. Birgitta Whaley, Bharath Hebbe MadhusudhanaPublished: 2026-02-23
Accurate characterization of coherent and non-Markovian errors remains a central challenge in quantum information processing, as conventional benchmarking techniques typically rely on Markovian and time-independent noise assumptions. In practice, however, quantum devices exhibit both systematic coherent miscalibrations and temporally correlated fluctuations, which complicate error diagnosis and mi...

In situ calibration of microwave attenuation and gain using a cryogenic on-chip attenuator

Thomas Descamps, Linus Andersson, Vittorio Buccheri, Simon Sundelin, Mohammed Ali Aamir, Simone GasparinettiPublished: 2026-02-18
Accurate in situ calibration of microwave attenuation and amplification-chain noise is essential for superconducting quantum circuits. We demonstrate a compact, self-calibrating cryogenic noise source based on an on-chip chromium attenuator that can be resistively heated with nanowatt-level power and directly integrated into a coaxial microwave line at the mixing-chamber stage. By comparing Johnso...

Coherence-Mediated Quantum Thermometry in a Hybrid Circuit-QED Architecture

Shaojiang Zhu, Xinyuan You, Alexander Romanenko, Anna GrassellinoPublished: 2025-10-18
Quantum thermometry plays a critical role in the development of low-temperature sensors and quantum information platforms. In this work, we propose and theoretically analyze a hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture in which a superconducting qubit is dispersively coupled to two distinct bosonic modes: one initialized in a weak coherent state and the other coupled to a thermal environm...

Electrical post-fabrication tuning of aluminum Josephson junctions at room temperature

Christian Križan, Maurizio Toselli, Irshad Ahmad, Hadi Khaksaran, Marcus Rommel, Nermin Trnjanin, Janka Biznárová, Mamta Dahiya, Emil Hogedal, Halldór Jakobsson, Andreas Nylander, Jonas Bylander, Per Delsing, Giovanna TancrediPublished: 2026-02-23
Josephson junctions are a key element of superconducting quantum technology, serving as the core building blocks of superconducting qubits. We present an experimental study on room-temperature electrical tuning of aluminum junctions, showing that voltage pulses can controllably increase their resistance and adjust the Josephson energy while maintaining qubit quality factors above 1 million. We fin...

Omnidirectional shuttling to avoid valley excitations in Si/SiGe quantum wells

Róbert Németh, Vatsal K. Bandaru, Pedro Alves, Emma Brann, Owen M. Eskandari, Hudaiba Soomro, Avani Vivrekar, M. A. Eriksson, Merritt P. Losert, Mark FriesenPublished: 2024-12-12
Conveyor-mode shuttling is a key approach for implementing intermediate-range coupling between electron-spin qubits in quantum dots. Initial implementations are encouraging; however, long shuttling trajectories are guaranteed to encounter regions of low conduction-band valley energy splittings, due to the presence of random-alloy disorder in Si/SiGe quantum wells. Here, we theoretically explore tw...

Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991

Juergen SchmidhuberPublished: 2020-05-12
The Deep Learning Artificial Neural Networks (NNs) of our team have revolutionised Machine Learning & AI. Many of the basic ideas behind this revolution were published within the 12 months of our "Annus Mirabilis" 1990-1991 at our lab in TU Munich. Back then, few people were interested. But a quarter century later, NNs based on our "Miraculous Year" were on over 3 billion devices, and used many bi...

Keyboards for the Endangered Idu Mishmi Language

Akhilesh Kakolu RamaraoPublished: 2026-02-23
We present a mobile and desktop keyboard suite for Idu Mishmi, an endangered Trans-Himalayan language spoken by approximately 11,000 people in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Although a Latin-based orthography was developed in 2018, no digital input tools existed to use it, forcing speakers into ad-hoc romanizations that cannot represent the full writing system. Our keyboards comprise two tools: (1) an ...

Differentiable Maximum Likelihood Noise Estimation for Quantum Error Correction

Hanyan Cao, Dongyang Feng, Cheng Ye, Feng PanPublished: 2026-02-23
Accurate noise estimation is essential for fault-tolerant quantum computing, as decoding performance depends critically on the fidelity of the circuit-level noise parameters. In this work, we introduce a differentiable Maximum Likelihood Estimation (dMLE) framework that enables exact, efficient, and fully differentiable computation of syndrome log-likelihoods, allowing circuit-level noise paramete...

📚 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...