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Optimized readout strategies for neutral atom quantum processors

Liang Chen, Wen-Yi Zhu, Zi-Jie Chen, Zhu-Bo Wang, Ya-Dong Hu, Qing-Xuan Jie, Guang-Can Guo, Chang-Ling Zou2026-01-15T15:12 Score: 0.56
Neutral atom quantum processors have emerged as a promising platform for scalable quantum information processing, offering high-fidelity operations and exceptional qubit scalability. A key challenge i...

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

M. P. Tonne, Kh. P. GnatenkoPublished: 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 SavinPublished: 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 LopataPublished: 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 ChoPublished: 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 CacciapuotiPublished: 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 TokunagaPublished: 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...

Quantum Computing -- Strategic Recommendations for the Industry

Marvin Erdmann, Lukas Karch, Abhishek Awasthi, Caitlin Isobel Jones, Pallavi Bhardwaj, Florian Krellner, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Nico Kraus, Peter Eder, Sarah Braun, Tong LiuPublished: 2026-01-13
This whitepaper surveys the current landscape and short- to mid-term prospects for quantum-enabled optimization and machine learning use cases in industrial settings. Grounded in the QCHALLenge program, it synthesizes hardware trajectories from different quantum architectures and providers, and assesses their maturity and potential for real-world use cases under a standardized traffic-light evalua...

Symmetry-Adapted State Preparation for Quantum Chemistry on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers

Viktor Khinevich, Wataru MizukamiPublished: 2026-01-13
We present systematic and resource-efficient constructions of continuous symmetry projectors, particularly $U(1)$ particle number and $SU(2)$ total spin, tailored for fault-tolerant quantum computations. Our approach employs a linear combination of unitaries (LCU) as well as generalized quantum signal processing (GQSP and GQSVT) to implement projectors. These projectors can then be coherently appl...

A dataflow programming framework for linear optical distributed quantum computing

Giovanni de Felice, Boldizsár Poór, Cole Comfort, Lia Yeh, Mateusz Kupper, William Cashman, Bob CoeckePublished: 2026-01-13
Photonic systems offer a promising platform for interconnecting quantum processors and enabling scalable, networked architectures. Designing and verifying such architectures requires a unified formalism that integrates linear algebraic reasoning with probabilistic and control-flow structures. In this work, we introduce a graphical framework for distributed quantum computing that brings together li...

Dissipative ground-state preparation of a quantum spin chain on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Kazuhiro Seki, Yuta Kikuchi, Tomoya Hayata, Seiji YunokiPublished: 2026-01-13
We demonstrate a dissipative protocol for ground-state preparation of a quantum spin chain on a trapped-ion quantum computer. As a first step, we derive a Kraus representation of a dissipation channel for the protocol recently proposed by Ding et al. [Phys. Rev. Res. 6, 033147 (2024)] that still holds for arbitrary temporal discretization steps, extending the analysis beyond the Lindblad dynamics ...

🏢 Company Papers

Scalable Spin Squeezing in Power-Law Interacting XXZ Models with Disorder

Samuel E. Begg, Bishal K. Ghosh, Chong Zu, Chuanwei Zhang, Michael KolodrubetzPublished: 2026-01-15
While spin squeezing has been traditionally considered in all-to-all interacting models, recent works have shown that spin squeezing can occur in systems with power-law interactions, leading to direct testing in Rydberg atoms, trapped ions, ultracold atoms and nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. For the latter, Wu. et al. Nature 646 (2025) demonstrated that spin squeezing is heavily affected...

Constant-Depth Unitary Preparation of Dicke States

Francisca Vasconcelos, Malvika Raj JoshiPublished: 2026-01-15
Dicke states serve as a critical resource in quantum metrology, communication, and computation. However, unitary preparation of Dicke states is limited to logarithmic depth in standard circuit models and existing constant-depth protocols require measurement and feed-forward. In this work, we present the first unitary, constant-depth protocols for exact Dicke state preparation. We overcome the loga...

CURVE: A Benchmark for Cultural and Multilingual Long Video Reasoning

Darshan Singh, Arsha Nagrani, Kawshik Manikantan, Harman Singh, Dinesh Tewari, Tobias Weyand, Cordelia Schmid, Anelia Angelova, Shachi DavePublished: 2026-01-15
Recent advancements in video models have shown tremendous progress, particularly in long video understanding. However, current benchmarks predominantly feature western-centric data and English as the dominant language, introducing significant biases in evaluation. To address this, we introduce CURVE (Cultural Understanding and Reasoning in Video Evaluation), a challenging benchmark for multicultur...

Reservoir-Engineered Refrigeration of a Superconducting Cavity with Double-Quantum-Dot Spin Qubits

Daryoosh Vashaee, Jahanfar AbouiePublished: 2026-01-14
We present an analytically tractable theory of reservoir-engineered refrigeration of a superconducting microwave cavity and map it onto a realistic solid-state implementation based on gate-defined double-quantum-dot (DQD) spin qubits. Treating the DQD not as a spectroscopic element but as a tunable engineered reservoir, we show how gate control of populations, coherences, linewidths, and detuning ...

Late-Time Infrared Cooling in Magnetar-Driven Supernovae

Conor M. B. OmandPublished: 2026-01-06
A central magnetar engine is commonly invoked to explain energetic supernovae, which should have multiple signals in multiwavelength emission. Photoionization from the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) can create distinct spectroscopic signals in the nebular phase. Recent models suggest infrared emission, particularly from Ne II, can be prominent at late times. This work examines the cooling power of optic...

Optimized readout strategies for neutral atom quantum processors

Liang Chen, Wen-Yi Zhu, Zi-Jie Chen, Zhu-Bo Wang, Ya-Dong Hu, Qing-Xuan Jie, Guang-Can Guo, Chang-Ling ZouPublished: 2026-01-15
Neutral atom quantum processors have emerged as a promising platform for scalable quantum information processing, offering high-fidelity operations and exceptional qubit scalability. A key challenge in realizing practical applications is efficiently extracting readout outcomes while maintaining high system throughput, i.e., the rate of quantum task executions. In this work, we develop a theoretica...

Analysis and Experimental Demonstration of Amplitude Amplification for Combinatorial Optimization

Daniel Koch, Brian Pardo, Kip NiemanPublished: 2026-01-15
Quantum Amplitude Amplification (QAA), the generalization of Grover's algorithm, is capable of yielding optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with high probabilities. In this work we extend the conventional 2-dimensional representation of Grover's (orthogonal collective states) to oracles which encode cost functions such as QUBO, and show that linear cost functions are a special...

Erasure conversion for singlet-triplet spin qubits enables high-performance shuttling-based quantum error correction

Adam Siegel, Simon BenjaminPublished: 2026-01-15
Fast and high fidelity shuttling of spin qubits has been demonstrated in semiconductor quantum dot devices. Several architectures based on shuttling have been proposed; it has been suggested that singlet-triplet (dual-spin) qubits could be optimal for the highest shuttling fidelities. Here we present a fault-tolerant framework for quantum error correction based on such dual-spin qubits, establishi...

📚 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...