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Two Problems on Quantum Computing in Finite Abelian Groups

Ulises Pastor-Díaz, José M. TorneroPublished: 2026-04-01
In the context of finite Abelian groups two problems are presented and solved using quantum computing techniques. The first is the well--known Hidden Subgroup Problem, originally solved by Simon in a landmark work. The second is the Fully Balanced Image Problem, originally introduced by the authors (joint with J. Ossorio--Castillo), which is related to a certain class of mappings (which contains s...

Highly-Parallel Atom-Detection Accelerator for Tweezer-Based Neutral Atom Quantum Computers

Jonas Winklmann, Yian Yu, Xiaorang Guo, Korbinian Staudacher, Martin SchulzPublished: 2026-04-01
Neutral atom quantum computers (NAQCs) are among the most promising computational platforms for quantum computing. Controlling and measuring individual atoms and their states, which often requires multiple imaging and image-analysis procedures, is typically the most time-consuming task during computation and contributes significantly to overall cycle times. To resolve this challenge, we propose a ...

Unitary Encoding of Thermal States via Thermofield Dynamics on Quantum Computers

G. X. A. Petronilo, M. R. Araújo, A. B. M. Souza, Clebson CruzPublished: 2026-04-01
Quantum computing has attracted the attention of the scientific community in the past few decades. However, despite some relevant advantages, near-term quantum devices remain severely limited by thermal effects, which induce decoherence and restrict coherent control at finite temperature. In this regard, this work reports a gate-based quantum algorithm that prepares the finite-temperature vacuum o...

Pricing Lookback Options on a Quantum Computer

Florence Paquette, Tania Belabbas, Emmanuel Hamel, Anne MacKayPublished: 2026-04-01
We develop a quantum algorithm to price discretely monitored lookback options in the Black-Scholes framework using imaginary time evolution. By rewriting the pricing PDE as a Schrodinger-type equation, the problem becomes the imaginary time evolution of a quantum state under a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. This evolution is approximated with the Variational Quantum imaginary time evolution (VarQITE) ...

Scattering phase shift in quantum mechanics on quantum computers: non-Hermitian systems and imaginary-time simulations

Peng Guo, Paul LeVan, Frank X. Lee, Yong ZhaoPublished: 2026-03-31
To overcome the fast oscillatory behavior of correlation functions for extracting scattering phase shift in real-time quantum simulations encountered in Ref.\cite{Guo:2026qkx}, we propose and test two solutions in the present work. One is to simulate Hermitian systems in imaginary time, the other is to simulate non-Hermitian systems in real time. We demonstrate that both approaches lead to the pro...

YZ-plane measurement-based quantum computation: Universality and Parity Architecture implementation

Jaroslav Kysela, Katharina Ludwig, Nitica Sakharwade, Anette Messinger, Wolfgang LechnerPublished: 2026-03-31
We define the class of register-logic graphs and prove that any uniformly deterministic measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) where the inputs coincide with the outputs must be driven on such graphs by measurements in the $YZ$ plane of the Bloch sphere. This observation is revisited in the context that goes beyond uniform determinism, where we present a universal $YZ$-plane-only measurement...

Iterative Optimization with Partial Convergence Guarantees on Neutral Atom Quantum Computers

Cédrick Perron, Yves Bérubé-Lauzière, Victor Drouin-TouchettePublished: 2026-03-30
Neutral atom quantum computers (NAQCs) have emerged as a promising platform for solving the maximum weighted independent set (MWIS) problem. However, analog quantum approaches face two key limitations: constraints of the atomic layout on realizable graph geometries and the absence of performance guarantees. We introduce Lp-Quts, a hybrid quantum-classical framework that integrates an NAQC sampler ...

The Power of Power-of-SWAP: Postselected Quantum Computation with the Exchange Interaction

Jędrzej Burkat, Sergii Strelchuk, Michał StudzińskiPublished: 2026-03-30
We introduce Exchange Quantum Polynomial Time (XQP) circuits, which comprise quantum computation using only computational basis SPAM and the isotropic Heisenberg exchange interaction. Structurally, this sub-universal model captures decoherence-free subspace computation without access to singlet states. We show that XQP occupies an intermediate position between BPP and BQP, as its efficient multipl...

Charge-$4e$ superconductor with parafermionic vortices: A path to universal topological quantum computation

Zhengyan Darius Shi, Zhaoyu Han, Srinivas Raghu, Ashvin VishwanathPublished: 2026-02-06
Topological superconductors (TSCs) provide a promising route to fault-tolerant quantum information processing. However, the canonical Majorana platform based on $2e$ TSCs remains computationally constrained. In this work, we find a $4e$ TSC that overcomes these constraints by combining a charge-$4e$ condensate with an Abelian chiral $\mathbb{Z}_3$ topological order in an intertwined fashion. Remar...

Benchmarking Quantum Computers via Protocols -- Comparing Superconducting and Ion-Trap Quantum Technology

Nitay Mayo, Tal Mor, Yossi WeinsteinPublished: 2026-03-28
Superconducting and Ion-Trap quantum architectures are common in the current landscape of the quantum computing field, each with distinct characteristics and operational constraints. Understanding and measuring the underlying quantumness of these devices is essential for assessing their readiness for practical applications and guiding future progress and research. Building on earlier work (Meirom,...

🏢 Company Papers

Property-Level Flood Risk Assessment Using AI-Enabled Street-View Lowest Floor Elevation Extraction and ML Imputation Across Texas

Xiangpeng Li, Yu-Hsuan Ho, Sam D Brody, Ali MostafaviPublished: 2026-04-01
This paper argues that AI-enabled analysis of street-view imagery, complemented by performance-gated machine-learning imputation, provides a viable pathway for generating building-specific elevation data at regional scale for flood risk assessment. We develop and apply a three-stage pipeline across 18 areas of interest (AOIs) in Texas that (1) extracts LFE and the height difference between street ...

Extending the fundamental limit of atomic clock stability

Ravid Shaniv, Ayush Agrawal, David B. HumePublished: 2026-04-01
Optical atomic clocks have been rapidly developing in recent decades, resulting in major improvements in both precision and accuracy. As a result, they have become instrumental in multiple areas of applied and fundamental research. Despite all atomic frequency references having more than two energy-levels, the commonly used model for evaluating their ultimate limits assumes a two-level atom. This ...

Simultaneous operation of an 18-qubit modular array in germanium

J. J. Dijkema, X. Zhang, A. Bardakas, D. Bouman, A. Cuzzocrea, D. van Driel, D. Girardi, L. E. A. Stehouwer, G. Scappucci, A. M. J. Zwerver, N. W. HendrickxPublished: 2026-04-01
Utility-scale quantum computing requires the integration and operation of a large-scale qubit register. Semiconductor spin qubits are a primary candidate for this, due to the prospects of building integrated hybrid quantum-classical architectures. However, scaling spin-qubit systems while preserving performance and control has remained a challenge. Here, we demonstrate the operation of an 18-qubit...

Demonstrating Noise-adapted Quantum Error Correction With Break-Even Performance

Vismay Joshi, Anubhab Rudra, Sourav Dutta, Siddharth Dhomkar, Prabha MandayamPublished: 2026-03-04
The promise of quantum computing is closer to reality today than ever before, thanks to rapid progress in the development of quantum hardware. Even as qubit lifetimes and gate fidelities continue to improve, realizing robust, fault-tolerant quantum computers is contingent upon the successful implementation of quantum error correction (QEC). Conventional QEC schemes have rather high resource overhe...

Quantum Statistical Bootstrap

Yongkai Chen, Ping Ma, Wenxuan ZhongPublished: 2026-04-01
The bootstrap is a foundational tool in statistical inference, but its classical implementation relies on Monte Carlo resampling, introducing approximation error and incurring high computational cost -- especially for large datasets and complex models. We present the Quantum Bootstrap (QBOOT), a quantum algorithm that computes the ideal bootstrap estimate exactly by encoding all possible resamples...

Active learning emulators for nuclear two-body scattering in momentum space

A. Giri, J. Kim, C. Drischler, Ch. Elster, R. J. FurnstahlPublished: 2025-12-19
We extend the active learning emulators for two-body scattering in coordinate space with error estimation, recently developed by Maldonado et al. [Phys. Rev. C 112, 024002], to coupled-channel scattering in momentum space. Our full-order model (FOM) solver is based on the Lippmann-Schwinger integral equation for the scattering $t$-matrix as opposed to the radial Schrödinger equation. We use (Petro...

Investigating Autonomous Agent Contributions in the Wild: Activity Patterns and Code Change over Time

Razvan Mihai Popescu, David Gros, Andrei Botocan, Rahul Pandita, Prem Devanbu, Maliheh IzadiPublished: 2026-04-01
The rise of large language models for code has reshaped software development. Autonomous coding agents, able to create branches, open pull requests, and perform code reviews, now actively contribute to real-world projects. Their growing role offers a unique and timely opportunity to investigate AI-driven contributions and their effects on code quality, team dynamics, and software maintainability. ...

Highly-Parallel Atom-Detection Accelerator for Tweezer-Based Neutral Atom Quantum Computers

Jonas Winklmann, Yian Yu, Xiaorang Guo, Korbinian Staudacher, Martin SchulzPublished: 2026-04-01
Neutral atom quantum computers (NAQCs) are among the most promising computational platforms for quantum computing. Controlling and measuring individual atoms and their states, which often requires multiple imaging and image-analysis procedures, is typically the most time-consuming task during computation and contributes significantly to overall cycle times. To resolve this challenge, we propose a ...

📚 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...