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Skyrmion Quantum Diode Prototype: Bridging Micromagnetic Simulations and Quantum Models

Haowen Yang, Gerald Bissell, Han Zhong, Peter Van Kirk, Tiger Cao, Pengcheng Lu, Yingying Wu • 2026-01-16T14:40 Score: 0.43
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures known for their robustness against perturbations. Their topological stability makes them robust information carriers, ideal for tackling a ...
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Coupling free electrons to a trapped-ion quantum computer

Elias Pescoller, Santiago Beltrán-Romero, Sebastian Egginger, Nicolas Jungwirth, Martino Zanetti, Dominik Hornof, Michael S. Seifner, Iva Březinová, Philipp Haslinger, Thomas Juffmann, Johannes Kofler, Philipp Schindler, Dennis Rätzel • 2026-01-16T17:08 Score: 0.33
Freely propagating electrons may serve as quantum probes that can become coherently correlated with other quantum systems, offering access to advanced metrological resources. We propose a setup that c...

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Coupling free electrons to a trapped-ion quantum computer

Elias Pescoller, Santiago Beltrán-Romero, Sebastian Egginger, Nicolas Jungwirth, Martino Zanetti, Dominik Hornof, Michael S. Seifner, Iva Březinová, Philipp Haslinger, Thomas Juffmann, Johannes Kofler, Philipp Schindler, Dennis Rätzel • Published: 2026-01-16
Freely propagating electrons may serve as quantum probes that can become coherently correlated with other quantum systems, offering access to advanced metrological resources. We propose a setup that coherently couples free electrons in an electron microscope to a trapped-ion quantum processor, enabling non-destructive, quantum-coherent detection and the accumulation of information across multiple ...

Molecular Quantum Computations on a Protein

Akhil Shajan, Danil Kaliakin, Fangchun Liang, Thaddeus Pellegrini, Hakan Doga, Subhamoy Bhowmik, Susanta Das, Antonio Mezzacapo, Mario Motta, Kenneth M. Merz • Published: 2025-12-18
This work presents the implementation of a fragment-based, quantum-centric supercomputing workflow for computing molecular electronic structure using quantum hardware. The workflow is applied to predict the relative energies of two conformers of the 300-atom Trp-cage miniprotein. The methodology employs wave function-based embedding (EWF) as the underlying fragmentation framework, in which all ato...

No quantum solutions to linear constraint systems from monomial measurement-based quantum computation in odd prime dimension

Markus Frembs, Cihan Okay, Ho Yiu Chung • Published: 2026-01-16
We combine the study of resources in measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) with that of quantum solutions to linear constraint systems (LCS). Contextuality of the input state in MBQC has been identified as a key resource for quantum advantage, and in a stronger form, underlies algebraic relations between (measurement) operators which obey classically unsatisfiable (linear) constraints. Here...

Stabilizer Code-Generic Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Nicholas J. C. Papadopoulos, Ramin Ayanzadeh • Published: 2026-01-16
Fault-tolerant quantum computation allows quantum computations to be carried out while resisting unwanted noise. Several error correcting codes have been developed to achieve this task, but none alone are capable of universal quantum computation. This universality is highly desired and often achieved using additional techniques such as code concatenation, code switching, or magic state distillatio...

Quantifying the properties of evolutionary quantum states of the XXZ spin model using quantum computing

M. P. Tonne, Kh. P. Gnatenko • Published: 2026-01-15
The entanglement distance of evolutionary quantum states of a two-spin system with the XXZ model has been studied. The analysis has been conducted both analytically and using quantum computing. An analytical dependence of the entanglement distance on the values of the model coupling constants and the parameters of the initial states has been obtained. The speed of evolution of a two-spin system ha...

The SpinPulse library for transpilation and noise-accurate simulation of spin qubit quantum computers

Benoît Vermersch, Oscar Gravier, Nathan Miscopein, Julia Guignon, Carlos Ramos Marimón, Jonathan Durandau, Matthieu Dartiailh, Tristan Meunier, Valentin Savin • Published: 2026-01-15
We introduce SpinPulse, an open-source python package for simulating spin qubit-based quantum computers at the pulse-level. SpinPulse models the specific physics of spin qubits, particularly through the inclusion of classical non-Markovian noise. This enables realistic simulations of native gates and quantum circuits, in order to support hardware development. In SpinPulse, a quantum circuit is fir...

Three Months in the Life of Cloud Quantum Computing

Darrell Teegarden, Allison Casey, F. Gino Serpa, Patrick Becker, Asmita Brahme, Saanvi Kataria, Paul Lopata • Published: 2026-01-15
Quantum Computing (QC) has evolved from a few custom quantum computers, which were only accessible to their creators, to an array of commercial quantum computers that can be accessed on the cloud by anyone. Accessing these cloud quantum computers requires a complex chain of tools that facilitate connecting, programming, simulating algorithms, estimating resources, submitting quantum computing jobs...

Geometry- and Topology-Informed Quantum Computing: From States to Real-Time Control with FPGA Prototypes

Gunhee Cho • Published: 2026-01-14
This book gives a geometry-first, hardware-aware route through quantum-information workflows, with one goal: connect states, circuits, and measurement to deterministic classical pipelines that make hybrid quantum systems run. Part 1 develops the backbone (essential linear algebra, the Bloch-sphere viewpoint, differential-geometric intuition, and quantum Fisher information geometry) so evolution ca...

Universal Quantum Computation via Superposed Orders of Single-Qubit Gates

Kyrylo Simonov, Marcello Caleffi, Jessica Illiano, Jacquiline Romero, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti • Published: 2023-11-22
Superposed orders of quantum channels have already been proved - both theoretically and experimentally - to enable unparalleled opportunities in the quantum communication domain. As a matter of fact, superposition of orders can be exploited within the quantum computing domain as well, by relaxing the (traditional) assumption underlying quantum computation about applying gates in a well-defined cau...

Network-Based Quantum Computing: an efficient design framework for many-small-node distributed fault-tolerant quantum computing

Soshun Naito, Yasunari Suzuki, Yuuki Tokunaga • Published: 2026-01-14
In fault-tolerant quantum computing, a large number of physical qubits are required to construct a single logical qubit, and a single quantum node may be able to hold only a small number of logical qubits. In such a case, the idea of distributed fault-tolerant quantum computing (DFTQC) is important to demonstrate large-scale quantum computation using small-scale nodes. However, the design of distr...

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Building Production-Ready Probes For Gemini

János Kramár, Joshua Engels, Zheng Wang, Bilal Chughtai, Rohin Shah, Neel Nanda, Arthur Conmy • Published: 2026-01-16
Frontier language model capabilities are improving rapidly. We thus need stronger mitigations against bad actors misusing increasingly powerful systems. Prior work has shown that activation probes may be a promising misuse mitigation technique, but we identify a key remaining challenge: probes fail to generalize under important production distribution shifts. In particular, we find that the shift ...

Surface Optimization of Aluminum Resonators for Robust Quantum Device Fabrication

Simon J. K. Lang, Ignaz Eisele, Alwin Maiwald, Emir Music, Luis Schwarzenbach, Carla Morán-Guizán, Johannes Weber, Daniela Zahn, Thomas Mayer, Rui N. Pereira, Christoph Kutter • Published: 2026-01-07
Aluminum remains the central material for superconducting qubits, and considerable effort has been devoted to optimizing its deposition and patterning for quantum devices. However, while post-processing of Nb- and Ta-based resonators has been widely explored, primarily focusing on oxide removal using buffered oxide etch (BOE), post-treatment strategies for Al resonators remain underdeveloped. This...

Coupling free electrons to a trapped-ion quantum computer

Elias Pescoller, Santiago Beltrán-Romero, Sebastian Egginger, Nicolas Jungwirth, Martino Zanetti, Dominik Hornof, Michael S. Seifner, Iva Březinová, Philipp Haslinger, Thomas Juffmann, Johannes Kofler, Philipp Schindler, Dennis Rätzel • Published: 2026-01-16
Freely propagating electrons may serve as quantum probes that can become coherently correlated with other quantum systems, offering access to advanced metrological resources. We propose a setup that coherently couples free electrons in an electron microscope to a trapped-ion quantum processor, enabling non-destructive, quantum-coherent detection and the accumulation of information across multiple ...

PubMed-OCR: PMC Open Access OCR Annotations

Hunter Heidenreich, Yosheb Getachew, Olivia Dinica, Ben Elliott • Published: 2026-01-16
PubMed-OCR is an OCR-centric corpus of scientific articles derived from PubMed Central Open Access PDFs. Each page image is annotated with Google Cloud Vision and released in a compact JSON schema with word-, line-, and paragraph-level bounding boxes. The corpus spans 209.5K articles (1.5M pages; ~1.3B words) and supports layout-aware modeling, coordinate-grounded QA, and evaluation of OCR-depende...

Offline Reinforcement-Learning-Based Power Control for Application-Agnostic Energy Efficiency

Akhilesh Raj, Swann Perarnau, Aniruddha Gokhale, Solomon Bekele Abera • Published: 2026-01-16
Energy efficiency has become an integral aspect of modern computing infrastructure design, impacting the performance, cost, scalability, and durability of production systems. The incorporation of power actuation and sensing capabilities in CPU designs is indicative of this, enabling the deployment of system software that can actively monitor and adjust energy consumption and performance at runtime...

Quantum optimization with exact geodesic transport

André J. Ferreira-Martins, Renato M. S. Farias, Giancarlo Camilo, Thiago O. Maciel, Allan Tosta, Ruge Lin, Abdulla Alhajri, Tobias Haug, Leandro Aolita • Published: 2025-06-20
We introduce an architecture for variational quantum algorithms that can be efficiently trained via parameter updates along exact geodesics on the Riemannian state manifold. This features a parameter-optimal circuit ansatz which supersedes known quantum natural gradient methods by removing expensive estimations of the metric tensor and provably reducing gradient estimation costs by $62.5\%$. Moreo...

Skyrmion Quantum Diode Prototype: Bridging Micromagnetic Simulations and Quantum Models

Haowen Yang, Gerald Bissell, Han Zhong, Peter Van Kirk, Tiger Cao, Pengcheng Lu, Yingying Wu • Published: 2026-01-16
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures known for their robustness against perturbations. Their topological stability makes them robust information carriers, ideal for tackling a key challenge in quantum computing: creating reliable, one-way links between different types of qubits. In this proof-of-concept study, we introduce a novel device - the skyrmion quantum diode - based...

Dressed-state relaxation in coupled qubits as a source of two-qubit gate errors

Ruixia Wang, Jiayu Ding, Chenlu Wang, Yujia Zhang, He Wang, Wuerkaixi Nuerbolati, Zhen Yang, Xuehui Liang, Weijie Sun, Haifeng Yu, Fei Yan • Published: 2026-01-16
Understanding error mechanisms in two-qubit gate operations is essential for building high-fidelity quantum processors. While prior studies predominantly treat dephasing noise as either Markovian or predominantly low-frequency, realistic qubit environments exhibit structured, frequency-dependent spectra. Here we demonstrate that noise at frequencies matching the dressed-state energy splitting--set...

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Quantum enhanced Monte Carlo simulation for photon interaction cross sections

Authors: Euimin Lee, Sangmin Lee, Shiho Kim • Submitted: 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 Sevior • Submitted: 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. Geller • Submitted: 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"

AurÊlien 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...