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Quantum logic control and entanglement in hybrid atom-molecule arrays

Chi Zhang, Sara Murciano, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Ran Finkelstein2026-02-13T13:09 Score: 0.23
Polar molecules, with their rich internal structure, offer immense potential for fundamental physics, quantum technology, and controlled chemistry. However, their utilization is currently limited beca...

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📄 Technology Papers

Online Locality Meets Distributed Quantum Computing

Amirreza Akbari, Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Francesco d'Amore, François Le Gall, Henrik Lievonen, Darya Melnyk, Augusto Modanese, Shreyas Pai, Marc-Olivier Renou, Václav Rozhoň, Jukka SuomelaPublished: 2024-03-04
We connect three distinct lines of research that have recently explored extensions of the classical LOCAL model of distributed computing: A. distributed quantum computing and non-signaling distributions [e.g. STOC 2024], B. finitely-dependent processes [e.g. Forum Math. Pi 2016], and C. locality in online graph algorithms and dynamic graph algorithms [e.g. ICALP 2023]. We prove new results on th...

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...

🏢 Company Papers

TrustMee: Self-Verifying Remote Attestation Evidence

Parsa Sadri Sinaki, Zainab Ahmad, Wentao Xie, Merlijn Sebrechts, Jimmy Kjällman, Lachlan J. GunnPublished: 2026-02-13
Hardware-secured remote attestation is essential to establishing trust in the integrity of confidential virtual machines (cVMs), but is difficult to use in practice because verifying attestation evidence requires the use of hardware-specific cryptographic logic. This increases both maintenance costs and the verifiers' trusted computing base. We introduce the concept of self-verifying remote attest...

Single snapshot non-Markovianity of Pauli channels

Alireza Seif, Moein Malekakhlagh, Swarnadeep Majumder Luke C. G. GoviaPublished: 2026-02-13
Pauli channels are widely used to describe errors in quantum computers, particularly when noise is shaped via Pauli twirling. A common assumption is that such channels admit a Markovian generator, namely a Pauli-Lindblad model with non-negative rates, but the validity of this assumption has not been systematically examined. Here, using CP-indivisibility as our criterion for non-Markovianity, we st...

A Quantum Reservoir Computing Approach to Quantum Stock Price Forecasting in Quantum-Invested Markets

Wendy Otieno, Alexandre Zagoskin, Alexander G. Balanov, Juan Totero Gongora, Sergey E. Savel'evPublished: 2026-02-13
We present a quantum reservoir computing (QRC) framework based on a small-scale quantum system comprising at most six interacting qubits, designed for nonlinear financial time-series forecasting. We apply the model to predict future daily closing trading volumes of 20 quantum-sector publicly traded companies over the period from April 11, 2020, to April 11, 2025, as well as minute-by-minute tradin...

Real-time adaptive tracking of fluctuating relaxation rates in superconducting qubits

Fabrizio Berritta, Jacob Benestad, Jan A. Krzywda, Oswin Krause, Malthe A. Marciniak, Svend Krøjer, Christopher W. Warren, Emil Hogedal, Andreas Nylander, Irshad Ahmad, Amr Osman, Janka Biznárová, Marcus Rommel, Anita Fadavi Roudsari, Jonas Bylander, Giovanna Tancredi, Jeroen Danon, Jacob Hastrup, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Morten KjaergaardPublished: 2025-06-11
The fidelity of operations on a solid-state quantum processor is fundamentally bounded by environmental decoherence. Characterizing environmental fluctuations is challenging because the acquisition time of nonadaptive experimental protocols limits temporal precision and can average out rapid features of the underlying dynamics. Here, we overcome this temporal-resolution limit by two orders of magn...

Quantum logic control and entanglement in hybrid atom-molecule arrays

Chi Zhang, Sara Murciano, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Ran FinkelsteinPublished: 2026-02-13
Polar molecules, with their rich internal structure, offer immense potential for fundamental physics, quantum technology, and controlled chemistry. However, their utilization is currently limited because of slow and imperfect state detection and weak dipolar interaction, limiting fast and large-scale entanglement generation. We propose and analyze a scheme for quantum logic control and measurement...

Towards Trapped-Ion Thermometry Using Cavity-Based EIT

Abhijit Kundu, Vijay Bhatt, Arijit SharmaPublished: 2026-02-13
We present a technique for measuring ion temperature using cavity-based electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) applicable for cavity-qed systems in the strong coupling regime. This method enables efficient extraction of the ion's phonon occupation number following sub-Doppler cooling close to the motional ground state. The proposed method relies on monitoring the cavity probe transmission ...

Design and Operation of Wafer-Scale Packages Containing >500 Superconducting Qubits

Oscar W. Kennedy, Waqas Ahmad, Robert Armstrong, Amir Awawdeh, Anirban Bose, Kevin G. Crawford, Sergey Danilin, William D. David, Hamid El Maazouz, Darren J. Hayton, George B. Long, Alexey Lyapin, Scott A. Manifold, Kowsar Shahbazi, Ryan Wesley, Evan Wong, Connor D. ShellyPublished: 2026-02-13
Packages capable of supporting large arrays of high-coherence superconducting qubits are vital for the realisation of fault-tolerant quantum computers and the necessary high-throughput metrology required to optimise fabrication and manufacturing processes. We present a wafer-scale packaging architecture supporting over 500 qubits on a single 3-inch die. The package is engineered to suppress parasi...

News Harvesting from Google News combining Web Scraping, LLM Metadata Extraction and SCImago Media Rankings enrichment: a case study of IFMIF-DONES

Victor Herrero-SolanaPublished: 2026-02-13
This study develops and evaluates a systematic methodology for constructing news datasets from Google News, combining automated web scraping, large language model (LLM)-based metadata extraction, and SCImago Media Rankings enrichment. Using the IFMIF-DONES fusion energy project as a case study, we implemented a five-stage data collection pipeline across 81 region-language combinations, yielding 1,...

📚 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...