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⭐ TOP PAPER

Efficient Simulation of Pre-Born-Oppenheimer Dynamics on a Quantum Computer

Matthew Pocrnic, Ignacio Loaiza, Juan Miguel Arrazola, Nathan Wiebe, Danial Motlagh2026-02-11T19:00 Score: 0.65
In this work, we present a quantum algorithm for direct first-principles simulation of electron-nuclear dynamics on a first-quantized real-space grid. Our algorithm achieves best-in-class efficiency f...
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Realization of a cavity-coupled Rydberg array

Jacopo De Santis, Balázs Dura-Kovács, Mehmet Öncü, Adrien Bouscal, Dimitrios Vasileiadis, Johannes Zeiher2026-02-12T16:34 Score: 0.42
Scalable quantum computers and quantum networks require the combination of quantum processing nodes with efficient light-matter interfaces to distribute quantum information in local or long-distance q...

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📄 Technology Papers

High-order splitting of non-unitary operators on quantum computers

Peter Brearley, Philipp PfefferPublished: 2025-11-24
Dissipation and irreversibility are central to most physical processes, yet they lead to non-unitary dynamics that are challenging to realise on quantum processors. High-order operator splitting, also known as high-order product formulas, is an attractive approach for simulating unitary dynamics, yet conventional high-order splitting schemes introduce negative time steps that are numerically unsta...

Measurement-based quantum computing with qudit stabilizer states

Alena Romanova, Wolfgang DürPublished: 2025-06-25
We show how to perform measurement-based quantum computing on qudits (high-dimensional quantum systems) using alternative resource states beyond the cluster state. Estimating overheads for gate decomposition, we find that generalizing standard qubit measurement patterns to the qudit cluster state is suboptimal in most dimensions, so that alternative qudit resource states could enable enhanced comp...

Efficient Simulation of Pre-Born-Oppenheimer Dynamics on a Quantum Computer

Matthew Pocrnic, Ignacio Loaiza, Juan Miguel Arrazola, Nathan Wiebe, Danial MotlaghPublished: 2026-02-11
In this work, we present a quantum algorithm for direct first-principles simulation of electron-nuclear dynamics on a first-quantized real-space grid. Our algorithm achieves best-in-class efficiency for block-encoding the pre-Born-Oppenheimer molecular Hamiltonian by harnessing the linear scaling of swap networks for implementing the quadratic number of particle interactions, while using a novel a...

Quantum computing with anyons is fault tolerant

Anasuya Lyons, Benjamin J. BrownPublished: 2026-02-11
In seminal work (arxiv:quant-ph/9707021) Alexei Kitaev proposed topological quantum computing (arXiv:cond-mat/0010440, arxiv:quant-ph/9707021, arXiv:quant-ph/0001108, arXiv:0707.1889), whereby logic gates of a quantum computer are conducted by creating, braiding and fusing anyonic particles on a two-dimensional plane. Furthermore, he showed the proposal is inherently robust to local perturbations ...

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

Zhichen Liu, Sunghyun Kim, 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...

Multiconfiguration Pair-Density Functional Theory Calculations of Ground and Excited States of Complex Chemical Systems with Quantum Computers

Zhanou Liu, Yuhao Chen, Yingjin Ma, Xiao He, Yuxin DengPublished: 2026-02-11
Accurately describing strong electron correlation in complex systems remains a prominent challenge in computational chemistry as near-term quantum algorithms treating total correlation often require prohibitively deep circuits. Here we present a hybrid strategy combining the Variational Quantum Eigensolver with Multiconfiguration Pair-Density Functional Theory to efficiently decouple correlation e...

Quantum-Audit: Evaluating the Reasoning Limits of LLMs on Quantum Computing

Mohamed Afane, Kayla Laufer, Wenqi Wei, Ying Mao, Junaid Farooq, Ying Wang, Juntao ChenPublished: 2026-02-10
Language models have become practical tools for quantum computing education and research, from summarizing technical papers to explaining theoretical concepts and answering questions about recent developments in the field. While existing benchmarks evaluate quantum code generation and circuit design, their understanding of quantum computing concepts has not been systematically measured. Quantum-Au...

Solving nonlinear differential equations on noisy $156$-qubit quantum computers

Karla Baumann, Youcef Modheb, Roman Randrianarisoa, Roland Katz, Aoife Boyle, Frédéric HolweckPublished: 2026-01-07
In this paper, we report on the resolution of nonlinear differential equations using IBM's quantum platform. More specifically, we demonstrate that the hybrid classical-quantum algorithm H-DES successfully solves a one-dimensional material deformation problem and the inviscid Burgers' equation on IBM's 156-qubit quantum computers. These results constitute a step toward performing physically releva...

Hybrid Method of Efficient Simulation of Physics Applications for a Quantum Computer

Carla Rieger, Albert T. Schmitz, Gehad Salem, Massimiliano Incudini, Sofia Vallecorsa, Anne Y. Matsuura, Michele Grossi, Gian Giacomo GuerreschiPublished: 2026-02-09
Quantum chemistry and materials science are among the most promising areas for demonstrating algorithmic quantum advantage and quantum utility due to their inherent quantum mechanical nature. Still, large-scale simulations of quantum circuits are essential for determining the problem size at which quantum solutions outperform classical methods. In this work, we present a novel hybrid simulation ap...

Cryo-CMOS Antenna for Wireless Communications within a Quantum Computer Cryostat

Viviana Centritto, Ama Bandara, Heqi Deng, Masoud Babaie, Evgenii Vinogradov, Sergi Abadal, Eduard AlarconPublished: 2025-10-15
Scaling quantum computers from a few qubits to large numbers remains one of the critical challenges in realizing practical quantum advantage. Multi-core quantum architectures have emerged as a promising solution, enabling scalability through distributed quantum processing units (QPUs) interconnected via classical and quantum links. However, the bottleneck of wired connections persists, as densely ...

🏢 Company Papers

"Sorry, I Didn't Catch That": How Speech Models Miss What Matters Most

Kaitlyn Zhou, Martijn Bartelds, Federico Bianchi, James ZouPublished: 2026-02-12
Despite speech recognition systems achieving low word error rates on standard benchmarks, they often fail on short, high-stakes utterances in real-world deployments. Here, we study this failure mode in a high-stakes task: the transcription of U.S. street names as spoken by U.S. participants. We evaluate 15 models from OpenAI, Deepgram, Google, and Microsoft on recordings from linguistically divers...

Simultaneous High-Fidelity Readout and Strong Coupling for a Donor-Based Spin Qubit

Si Yan Koh, Weifan Wu, Kelvin Onggadinata, Arghya Maity, Mark Chiyuan Ma, Calvin Pei Yu Wong, Kuan Eng Johnson Goh, Bent Weber, Hui Khoon Ng, Teck Seng KohPublished: 2026-02-12
Superconducting resonators coupled to solid-state qubits offer a scalable architecture for long-range entangling operations and fast, high-fidelity readout. Realizing this requires low photon-loss rates and qubits with tunable electric dipole moments that couple strongly to the resonator's electric field while maintaining long coherence times. For spin qubits, spin-photon coupling is typically ach...

Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research

Tony Feng, Trieu H. Trinh, Garrett Bingham, Dawsen Hwang, Yuri Chervonyi, Junehyuk Jung, Joonkyung Lee, Carlo Pagano, Sang-hyun Kim, Federico Pasqualotto, Sergei Gukov, Jonathan N. Lee, Junsu Kim, Kaiying Hou, Golnaz Ghiasi, Yi Tay, YaGuang Li, Chenkai Kuang, Yuan Liu, Hanzhao Lin, Evan Zheran Liu, Nigamaa Nayakanti, Xiaomeng Yang, Heng-Tze Cheng, Demis Hassabis, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Quoc V. Le, Thang LuongPublished: 2026-02-10
Recent advances in foundational models have yielded reasoning systems capable of achieving a gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad. The transition from competition-level problem-solving to professional research, however, requires navigating vast literature and constructing long-horizon proofs. In this work, we introduce Aletheia, a math research agent that iteratively gene...

Gradually opening Schrödinger's box reveals a cascade of sharp dynamical transitions

Barkay Guttel, Danielle Gov, Noam Netzer, Uri Goldblatt, Sergey Hazanov, Lalit M. Joshi, Alessandro Romito, Yuval Gefen, Parveen Kumar, Kyrylo Snizhko, Fabien Lafont, Serge RosenblumPublished: 2026-02-02
Quantum mechanics predicts that unobserved systems may exist in a superposition of states, yet measurement produces definite outcomes, a tension at the heart of the quantum-to-classical boundary. How the transformation between these opposing regimes unfolds as observation strength increases has remained experimentally unexplored. Here, by continuously tuning the measurement strength on a supercond...

High-order splitting of non-unitary operators on quantum computers

Peter Brearley, Philipp PfefferPublished: 2025-11-24
Dissipation and irreversibility are central to most physical processes, yet they lead to non-unitary dynamics that are challenging to realise on quantum processors. High-order operator splitting, also known as high-order product formulas, is an attractive approach for simulating unitary dynamics, yet conventional high-order splitting schemes introduce negative time steps that are numerically unsta...

Realization of a cavity-coupled Rydberg array

Jacopo De Santis, Balázs Dura-Kovács, Mehmet Öncü, Adrien Bouscal, Dimitrios Vasileiadis, Johannes ZeiherPublished: 2026-02-12
Scalable quantum computers and quantum networks require the combination of quantum processing nodes with efficient light-matter interfaces to distribute quantum information in local or long-distance quantum networks. Neutral-atom arrays have both been coupled to Rydberg states to enable high-fidelity quantum gates in universal processing architectures, and to optical cavities to realize interfaces...

Commencing-Student Enrolment Forecasting Under Data Sparsity with Time Series Foundation Models

Jittarin Jetwiriyanon, Teo Susnjak, Surangika RanathungaPublished: 2026-02-12
Many universities face increasing financial pressure and rely on accurate forecasts of commencing enrolments. However, enrolment forecasting in higher education is often data-sparse; annual series are short and affected by reporting changes and regime shifts. Popular classical approaches can be unreliable, as parameter estimation and model selection are unstable with short samples, and structural ...

Scaling Model and Data for Multilingual Machine Translation with Open Large Language Models

Yuzhe Shang, Pengzhi Gao, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Jinsong SuPublished: 2026-02-12
Open large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated improving multilingual capabilities in recent years. In this paper, we present a study of open LLMs for multilingual machine translation (MT) across a range of languages, and investigate the effects of model scaling and data scaling when adapting open LLMs to multilingual MT through continual pretraining and instruction finetuning. Based on the G...

📚 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...