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Heterogeneous architectures enable a 138x reduction in physical qubit requirements for fault-tolerant quantum computing under detailed accounting

Pranav S. Mundada, Aleksei Khindanov, Yulun Wang, Claire L. Edmunds, Paul Coote, Michael J. Biercuk, Yuval Baum, Michael Hush2026-04-07T18:00 Score: 0.57
Quantum computer hardware is predicted to scale over hundreds of thousands of qubits coming online in the next decade. Despite significant theoretical and experimental QEC progress, quantum computer a...

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📄 Technology Papers

Broken Quantum: A Systematic Formal Verification Study of Security Vulnerabilities Across the Open-Source Quantum Computing Simulator Ecosystem

Dominik BlainPublished: 2026-04-08
Quantum computing simulators form the classical software foundation on which virtually all quantum algorithm research depends. We present Broken Quantum, the first comprehensive formal security audit of the open-source quantum computing simulator ecosystem. Applying COBALT QAI -- a four-module static analysis engine backed by the Z3 SMT solver -- we analyze 45 open-source quantum simulation framew...

Probing the Planck scale with quantum computation

Boaz Katz, Shlomi KotlerPublished: 2026-04-07
General relativity and quantum mechanics are incompatible at the Planck scale. This contention can be examined if a quantum computer is set to operate at a rate that exceeds the classical limit of one operation per Planck volume-time, or equivalently $2^{491}$ m$^{-3}$ s$^{-1}$. Here we quantify the relation between the logical qubit count and the extent to which classicality is challenged. We arg...

Heterogeneous architectures enable a 138x reduction in physical qubit requirements for fault-tolerant quantum computing under detailed accounting

Pranav S. Mundada, Aleksei Khindanov, Yulun Wang, Claire L. Edmunds, Paul Coote, Michael J. Biercuk, Yuval Baum, Michael HushPublished: 2026-04-07
Quantum computer hardware is predicted to scale over hundreds of thousands of qubits coming online in the next decade. Despite significant theoretical and experimental QEC progress, quantum computer architecture has suffered a significant gap, with bottom-up physical-device-driven challenges largely disconnected from top-down QEC-code-driven considerations. In this work, we unify these two views, ...

Simulating Thermal Properties of Bose-Hubbard Models on a Quantum Computer

Simon Becker, Cambyse Rouzé, Robert SalzmannPublished: 2026-04-07
While recent advances have established efficient quantum algorithms for preparing Gibbs states of finite-dimensional systems, comparable complexity results for bosonic and other infinite-dimensional models remain unexplored. We introduce the first general rigorous Gibbs sampling framework for bosonic many-body systems, showing that physically relevant bosonic models admit gapped dissipative genera...

Resource Implications of Different Encodings for Quantum Computational Fluid Dynamics

Hans A. Kösel, Roland Ewert, Jan W. DelfsPublished: 2026-04-07
For quantum algorithms for problems in which the task is to compute an entire field of values, like e.g. computational fluid dynamics (CFD), it is often proposed amplitude encoding w.r.t. multiple qubits; however, the efforts implied by it for initialization and read-out are not addressed. This work is devoted specifically to this issue: It reviews different encoding schemes in quantum computing, ...

A circuit-differentiation framework for Green's functions on quantum computers

Samuele Piccinelli, Francesco Tacchino, Ivano Tavernelli, Giuseppe CarleoPublished: 2025-05-08
We propose a general framework for computing Retarded Green's Functions (RGFs) on quantum computers by recasting their evaluation as a problem of circuit differentiation. Our proposal is based on real-time evolution and specifically designed circuit components, which we refer to as circuit perturbations, acting as a direct representation of the external perturbative force within the quantum circui...

What quantum computer to buy?

Alex KrasnokPublished: 2026-04-06
The phrase ``buy a quantum computer'' hides several different procurement problems. An institution may be seeking cloud access for teaching, reserved capacity for research, a local instrument for hardware training, an optimization appliance, or a strategic installation that reshapes facilities, staffing, and budgets. Because these choices differ in purpose, operating burden, and useful lifetime, t...

Universal Weakly Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation via Code Switching in the [[8,3,2]] Code

Shixin Wu, Dawei Zhong, Todd A. Brun, Daniel A. LidarPublished: 2026-03-16
Code-switching offers a route to universal, fault-tolerant quantum computation by circumventing the limitation implied by the Eastin-Knill theorem against a universal transversal gate set within a single quantum code. Here, we present a fault-tolerant code-switching protocol between two versions of the $[[8, 3, 2]]$ code. One version supports weakly fault-tolerant single-qubit Clifford gates, whil...

Quench dynamics of the quantum XXZ chain with staggered interactions: Exact results and simulations on digital quantum computers

Ching-Tai Huang, Yu-Cheng Lin, Ferenc IgloiPublished: 2025-12-03
We investigate quench dynamics in the quantum $S=1/2$ XXZ antiferromagnetic chain with staggered and anisotropic interactions in the flat-band limit. Our quench protocol interchanges the odd- and even-bond strengths of a fully dimerized chain, enabling us to derive exact time-dependent states for arbitrary even system sizes by working in the Bell basis. We obtain closed-form, size-independent expr...

Simulating high-accuracy nuclear motion Hamiltonians using discrete variable representation and Walsh-Hadamard QROM on fault-tolerant quantum computers

Michał Szczepanik, Ákos Nagy, Emil ŻakPublished: 2025-10-21
We present a quantum algorithm for simulating rovibrational Hamiltonians on fault-tolerant quantum computers. The method integrates exact curvilinear kinetic energy operators and general-form potential energy surfaces expressed in a hybrid finite-basis/discrete-variable representation. The Hamiltonian is encoded as a unitary quantum circuit using a quantum read-only memory construction based on th...

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Phase Estimation with Compressed Controlled Time Evolution

Erenay KaracanPublished: 2025-11-26
Many optimally scaling quantum simulation algorithms employ controlled time evolution of the Hamiltonian, which is typically the major bottleneck for their efficient implementation. This work establishes a compression protocol for encoding the controlled time evolution operator of translationally invariant, local Hamiltonians into a quantum circuit. It achieves a near-optimal in time $t$ scaling f...

Complete coherent control of spin qubits in self-assembled InAs quantum dots under oblique magnetic fields

I. Samaras, K. Barr, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, K. G. LagoudakisPublished: 2026-04-08
We demonstrate complete coherent control of a single spin qubit confined in a self-assembled InAs negatively charged quantum dot subjected to an Oblique magnetic field, and directly compare this regime with the conventional Voigt geometry. In the Oblique-field configuration, the groundstate spin eigenstates are found to be unequal superpositions of the bare electron spin, with their composition tu...

Navig-AI-tion: Navigation by Contextual AI and Spatial Audio

Mathias N. Lystbæk, Haley Adams, Ranjith Kagathi Ananda, Eric J Gonzalez, Luca Ballan, Qiuxuan Wu, Andrea Colaço, Peter Tan, Mar Gonzalez-FrancoPublished: 2026-03-13
Audio-only walking navigation can leave users disoriented, relying on vague cardinal directions and lacking real-time environmental context, leading to frequent errors. To address this, we present a novel system that integrates a Vision Language Model (VLM) with a spatial audio cue. Our system extracts environmental landmarks to anchor navigation instructions and, crucially, provides a directional...

Granular aluminum induced superconductivity in germanium for hole spin-based hybrid devices

Giorgio Fabris, Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker, Devashish Shah, Daniel Michel Pino, Maksim Borovkov, Anton Bubis, Kevin Roux, Dina Sokolova, Alejandro Andres Juanes, Tommaso Costanzo, Inas Taha, Aziz Genç, Jordi Arbiol, Stefano Calcaterra, Afonso De Cerdeira Oliveira, Daniel Chrastina, Giovanni Isella, Ruben Seoane Souto, Maria Jose Calderon, Ramon Aguado, Jose Carlos Abadillo-Uriel, Georgios KatsarosPublished: 2026-02-24
In superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures, superconductivity and spin polarization are competing effects because magnetic fields break Cooper pairs. They can be combined using thin films and in-plane magnetic fields, an approach that enabled the pursuit of Majorana zero modes, Kitaev chains, and Andreev spin qubits (ASQs), but remains challenging for materials with small in-plane g-factors...

ClawsBench: Evaluating Capability and Safety of LLM Productivity Agents in Simulated Workspaces

Xiangyi Li, Kyoung Whan Choe, Yimin Liu, Xiaokun Chen, Chujun Tao, Bingran You, Wenbo Chen, Zonglin Di, Jiankai Sun, Shenghan Zheng, Jiajun Bao, Yuanli Wang, Weixiang Yan, Yiyuan Li, Han-chung LeePublished: 2026-04-06
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed to automate productivity tasks (e.g., email, scheduling, document management), but evaluating them on live services is risky due to potentially irreversible changes. Existing benchmarks rely on simplified environments and fail to capture realistic, stateful, multi-service workflows. We introduce ClawsBench, a benchmark for evaluating and ...

Spin-qubit Noise Spectroscopy of Magnetic Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Physics

Mark Potts, Shu ZhangPublished: 2025-09-12
We propose using spin-qubit noise magnetometry to probe dynamical signatures of magnetic Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) physics. For a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center coupled to two-dimensional XY magnets, we predict distinctive features in the magnetic noise spectral density in the sub-MHz to GHz frequency range. In the quasi-long-range ordered phase, the spectrum exhibits a temperature-depen...

P4-TAS: P4-Based Time-Aware Shaper for Time-Sensitive Networking

Fabian Ihle, Moritz Flüchter, Michael MenthPublished: 2025-11-13
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is a set of IEEE standards that extends Ethernet with real-time capabilities. Among its mechanisms, the time-aware shaper (TAS) periodically opens and closes egress queues to protect scheduled traffic from lower-priority flows, ensuring low latency and bounded delay. Deterministic networking (DetNet), standardized by the IETF, provides similar guarantees at Layer 3 ...

Lost in Cultural Translation: Do LLMs Struggle with Math Across Cultural Contexts?

Aabid Karim, Abdul Karim, Bhoomika Lohana, Matt Keon, Jaswinder Singh, Abdul SattarPublished: 2025-03-23
We demonstrate that large language models' (LLMs) mathematical reasoning is culturally sensitive: testing 14 models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Mistral, and Microsoft across six culturally adapted variants of the GSM8K benchmark, we find accuracy drops ranging from 0.3% (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) to 5.9% (LLaMA 3.1-8B) when math problems are embedded in unfamiliar cultural contexts--e...

📚 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...