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⭐ TOP PAPER

Implementation Challenges in Quantum Key Distribution

Abel C. H. Chen2026-02-02T00:30 Score: 0.44
In recent years, quantum computing technologies have steadily matured and have begun to find practical applications across various domains. One important area is network communication security, where ...
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Noise-Resilient Quantum Chemistry with Half the Qubits

Shane McFarthing, Aidan Pellow-Jarman, Francesco Petruccione2026-02-01T11:34 Score: 0.33
Sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) offers a powerful route to accurate quantum chemistry on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices by combining quantum sampling with classical diagona...

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📄 Technology Papers

AQER: a scalable and efficient data loader for digital quantum computers

Kaining Zhang, Xinbiao Wang, Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Dacheng TaoPublished: 2026-02-02
Digital quantum computing promises to offer computational capabilities beyond the reach of classical systems, yet its capabilities are often challenged by scarce quantum resources. A critical bottleneck in this context is how to load classical or quantum data into quantum circuits efficiently. Approximate quantum loaders (AQLs) provide a viable solution to this problem by balancing fidelity and ci...

Integrated Photonic Quantum Computing: From Silicon to Lithium Niobate

Hui Zhang, Yiming Ma, Yuancheng Zhan, Yuzhi Shi, Zhanshan Wang, Leong Chuan Kwek, Anthony Laing, Ai Qun Liu, Xinbin ChengPublished: 2026-01-23
Quantum technologies have surpassed classical systems by leveraging the unique properties of superposition and entanglement in photons and matter. Recent advancements in integrated quantum photonics, especially in silicon-based and lithium niobate platforms, are pushing the technology toward greater scalability and functionality. Silicon circuits have progressed from centimeter-scale, dual-photon ...

Sub-Riemannian geometry of measurement based quantum computation

Lukas Hantzko, Arnab Adhikary, Robert RaussendorfPublished: 2025-08-25
The computational power of quantum phases of matter with symmetry can be accessed through local measurements, but what is the most efficient way of doing so? In this work, we show that minimizing operational resources in measurement-based quantum computation on subsystem symmetric resource states amounts to solving a sub-Riemannian geodesic problem between the identity and the target logical unita...

State-adaptive quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing

D. -S. WangPublished: 2025-08-08
We present a theoretical framework for state-adaptive quantum error correction that bridges the gap between quantum computing and error correction paradigms. By incorporating knowledge of quantum states into the error correction process, we establish a new capacity regime governed by quantum mutual information rather than coherent information. This approach reveals a fundamental connection to enta...

Designing quantum technologies with a quantum computer

Juan Naranjo, Thi Ha Kyaw, Gaurav Saxena, Kevin Ferreira, Jack S. BakerPublished: 2026-01-29
Interacting spin systems in solids underpin a wide range of quantum technologies, from quantum sensors and single-photon sources to spin-defect-based quantum registers and processors. We develop a quantum-computer-aided framework for simulating such devices using a general electron spin resonance Hamiltonian incorporating zero-field splitting, the Zeeman effect, hyperfine interactions, dipole-dipo...

Machine learning with minimal use of quantum computers: Provable advantages in Learning Under Quantum Privileged Information (LUQPI)

Vasily Bokov, Lisa Kohl, Sebastian Schmitt, Vedran DunjkoPublished: 2026-01-29
Quantum machine learning (QML) is often listed as a promising candidate for useful applications of quantum computers, in part due to numerous proofs of possible quantum advantages. A central question is how small a role quantum computers can play while still enabling provable learning advantages over classical methods. We study an especially restricted setting in which a quantum computer is used o...

High-Coherence and High-frequency Quantum Computing: The Design of a High-Frequency, High-Coherence and Scalable Quantum Computing Architecture

Masroor H. S. BukhariPublished: 2026-01-29
High-coherence, fault-tolerant and scalable quantum computing architectures with unprecedented long coherence times, faster gates, low losses and low bit-flip errors may be one of the only ways forward to achieve the true quantum advantage. In this context, high-frequency high-coherence (HCQC) qubits with new high-performance topologies could be a significant step towards efficient and high-fideli...

Dispersive Microwave Sensing for Quantum Computing with Floating Electrons

Yiran TianPublished: 2026-01-29
In this dissertation, resonator-based readout techniques were developed for floating electrons as qubits on cryogenic substrates, using two platforms: electrons on liquid helium and electrons on solid neon. In addition, a cryogenic microwave source was developed to enable low-noise measurement for qubit readout.

Blind calibration of a quantum computer

Liam M. Jeanette, Jadwiga Wilkens, Ingo Roth, Anton Than, Alaina M. Green, Dominik Hangleiter, Norbert M. LinkePublished: 2025-01-09
The calibration of quantum measurements is limited by the ability to accurately prepare quantum states under unknown device errors. We develop an accurate calibration protocol for the measurement apparatus of a quantum computer that is `blind' to the state preparation. Blind calibration quantifies and corrects measurement errors from simple tomographic data on a noisy quantum state. Importantly, i...

Testing time order and Leggett-Garg inequalities with noninvasive measurements on public quantum computers

Tomasz Rybotycki, Tomasz Białecki, Josep Batle, Bartłomiej Zglinicki, Adam Szereszewski, Wolfgang Belzig, Adam BednorzPublished: 2025-07-10
We demonstrate the first violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality and time-order noninvariance on public quantum computers using genuine noninvasive measurements. By gathering sufficiently large statistics, we have been able to violate Leggett-Garg inequality and time-order invariance. The detailed analysis of the data on 10 qubit sets from 5 devices available on IBM Quantum and one on IonQ reveal...

🏢 Company Papers

Two-Level System Microwave Losses in Chemically Pure Bulk Niobium Oxide Samples

Vishal Ganesan, Jiankun Zhang, Drew G. Wild, Alexey BezryadinPublished: 2026-01-10
Losses from two-level systems (TLS) associated with amorphous oxides remain one of the primary limitations to the performance of superconducting qubits and microwave cavities. Niobium resonators are widely used in quantum science experiments, yet niobium's natural oxide layer contains various types of oxides whose relative contributions to TLS loss have not been clearly distinguished. Here, we use...

Evaluating OCR Performance for Assistive Technology: Effects of Walking Speed, Camera Placement, and Camera Type

Junchi Feng, Nikhil Ballem, Mahya Beheshti, Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Todd Hudson, Maurizio Porfiri, William H. Seiple, John-Ross RizzoPublished: 2026-02-02
Optical character recognition (OCR), which converts printed or handwritten text into machine-readable form, is widely used in assistive technology for people with blindness and low vision. Yet, most evaluations rely on static datasets that do not reflect the challenges of mobile use. In this study, we systematically evaluated OCR performance under both static and dynamic conditions. Static tests m...

Role of CI Adoption in Mobile App Success: An Empirical Study of Open-Source Android Projects

Xiaoxin Zhou, Taher A. Ghaleb, Safwat HassanPublished: 2026-02-02
Mobile apps face strong pressure for fast and reliable updates. Continuous Integration (CI) helps automate builds, tests, and releases, but its impact on mobile development remains underexplored. Despite the widespread use of CI, little is known about how it affects development activity, release speed, and user-facing outcomes in mobile projects. Existing studies mostly focus on CI adoption in gen...

Implementation Challenges in Quantum Key Distribution

Abel C. H. ChenPublished: 2026-02-02
In recent years, quantum computing technologies have steadily matured and have begun to find practical applications across various domains. One important area is network communication security, where Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) enables communicating parties to establish a shared secret that can then be used to generate symmetric keys for subsequent encryption and decryption. This study focuses ...

Putnam-like dataset summary: LLMs as mathematical competition contestants

Bartosz Bieganowski, Daniel Strzelecki, Robert Skiba, Mateusz TopolewskiPublished: 2025-09-29
In this paper we summarize the results of the Putnam-like benchmark published by Google DeepMind. This dataset consists of 96 original problems in the spirit of the Putnam Competition and 576 solutions generated by LLMs. We analyze the performance of models on this set of problems to verify their ability to solve problems from mathematical contests. We find that top models, particularly Gemini 2.5...

Noise-Resilient Quantum Chemistry with Half the Qubits

Shane McFarthing, Aidan Pellow-Jarman, Francesco PetruccionePublished: 2026-02-01
Sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) offers a powerful route to accurate quantum chemistry on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices by combining quantum sampling with classical diagonalization. Here we introduce HSQD, a novel half-qubit SQD approach that halves the qubit requirement for simulating a chemical system and drastically reduces overall circuit depth and gate counts, supp...

Electro-optic conversion of itinerant Fock states

Thomas Werner, Erfan Riyazi, Samarth Hawaldar, Rishabh Sahu, Georg Arnold, Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker, Jennifer A. Sánchez Naranjo, Dante Loi, Lucky N. Kapoor, Martin Zemlicka, Liu Qiu, Andrei Militaru, Johannes M. FinkPublished: 2026-01-31
Superconducting qubits are a leading candidate for utility-scale quantum computing due to their fast gate speeds and steadily decreasing error rates. The requirement for millikelvin operating temperatures, however, creates a significant scaling bottleneck. Modular architectures using optical fiber links could bridge separate cryogenic nodes, but superconducting circuits do not have coherent optica...

Don't Break the Cache: An Evaluation of Prompt Caching for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

Elias Lumer, Faheem Nizar, Akshaya Jangiti, Kevin Frank, Anmol Gulati, Mandar Phadate, Vamse Kumar SubbiahPublished: 2026-01-09
Recent advancements in Large Language Model (LLM) agents have enabled complex multi-turn agentic tasks requiring extensive tool calling, where conversations can span dozens of API calls with increasingly large context windows. However, although major LLM providers offer prompt caching to reduce cost and latency, its benefits for agentic workloads remain underexplored in the research literature. To...

📚 Highlighted Papers

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...

Power and Limitations of Linear Programming Decoder for Quantum LDPC Codes

Shouzhen Gu, Mehdi Soleimanifar
Decoding quantum error-correcting codes is a key challenge in enabling fault-tolerant quantum computation. In the classical setting, linear programming (LP) decoders offer provable performance guarantees and can leverage fast practical optimization algorithms. Although LP decoders have been proposed...