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Non-Clifford symmetry protected topological higher-order cluster states in multi-qubit measurement-based quantum computation

Motohiko EzawaPublished: 2026-02-24
A cluster state is a strongly entangled state, which is a source of measurement-based quantum computation. It is generated by applying controlled-Z (CZ) gates to the state $\left\vert ++\cdots +\right\rangle $. It is protected by the $\mathbb{Z}_{2}^{\text{even}}\times \mathbb{Z}_{2}^{ \text{odd}}$ symmetry. By applying general quantum gates to the state $ \left\vert ++\cdots +\right\rangle $, we ...

A Unified Error Correction Code for Universal Quantum Computing with Identical Particles

S. L. Wu, Lian-Ao WuPublished: 2026-02-24
We present a universal fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture based on identical particle qubits (IPQs), where we find that the first-order IPQ - bath interaction fundamentally differs from the conventional first-order qubit-bath interaction. This key distinction necessitates a redesign of existing strategies to fight decoherence. We propose that the simplest quantum error correction code c...

Quantum Computer Controlled by Superconducting Digital Electronics at Millikelvin Temperature

Caleb Jordan, Jacob Bernhardt, Joseph Rahamim, Alex Kirichenko, Karthik Bharadwaj, Louis Fry-Bouriaux, Aaron Somoroff, Katie Porsch, Kan-Ting Tsai, Jason Walter, Adam Weis, Meng-Ju Yu, Mario Renzullo, Jerome Javelle, Chris Checkley, Oleg Mukhanov, Daniel Yohannes, Igor Vernik, Shu-Jen HanPublished: 2025-03-12
Current superconducting quantum computing platforms face significant scaling challenges, as individual signal lines are required for control of each qubit. This wiring overhead is a result of the low level of integration between control electronics at room temperature and qubits operating at millikelvin temperatures, which raise serious doubts among technologists about whether utility-scale quantu...

Kaiwu-PyTorch-Plugin: Bridging Deep Learning and Photonic Quantum Computing for Energy-Based Models and Active Sample Selection

Hongdong Zhu, Qi Gao, Yin Ma, Shaobo Chen, Haixu Liu, Fengao Wang, Tinglan Wang, Chang Wu, Kai WenPublished: 2026-02-22
This paper introduces the Kaiwu-PyTorch-Plugin (KPP) to bridge Deep Learning and Photonic Quantum Computing across multiple dimensions. KPP integrates the Coherent Ising Machine into the PyTorch ecosystem, addressing classical inefficiencies in Energy-Based Models. The framework facilitates quantum integration in three key aspects: accelerating Boltzmann sampling, optimizing training data via Acti...

Separating Non-Interactive Classical Verification of Quantum Computation from Falsifiable Assumptions

Mohammed Barhoush, Tomoyuki Morimae, Ryo Nishimaki, Takashi YamakawaPublished: 2026-02-20
Mahadev [SIAM J. Comput. 2022] introduced the first protocol for classical verification of quantum computation based on the Learning-with-Errors (LWE) assumption, achieving a 4-message interactive scheme. This breakthrough naturally raised the question of whether fewer messages are possible in the plain model. Despite its importance, this question has remained unresolved. In this work, we prove ...

Quantum superresolution and noise spectroscopy with quantum computing

James W. Gardner, Federico Belliardo, Gideon Lee, Tuvia Gefen, Liang JiangPublished: 2026-02-19
Quantum metrology of an incoherent signal is a canonical sensing problem related to superresolution and noise spectroscopy. We show that quantum computing can accelerate searches for a weak incoherent signal when the signal and noise are not precisely known. In particular, we consider weak Schur sampling, density matrix exponentiation, and quantum signal processing for testing the rank, purity, an...

Free Quantum Computing

Jacques Carette, Chris Heunen, Robin Kaarsgaard, Neil J. Ross, Amr SabryPublished: 2026-02-18
Quantum computing improves substantially on known classical algorithms for various important problems, but the nature of the relationship between quantum and classical computing is not yet fully understood. This relationship can be clarified by free models, that add to classical computing just enough physical principles to represent quantum computing and no more. Here we develop an axiomatisation ...

Illustration of Barren Plateaus in Quantum Computing

Gerhard Stenzel, Tobias Rohe, Michael Kölle, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-PopienPublished: 2026-02-18
Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for quantum machine learning in the NISQ era. While parameter sharing in VQCs can reduce the parameter space dimensionality and potentially mitigate the barren plateau phenomenon, it introduces a complex trade-off that has been largely overlooked. This paper investigates how parameter sharing, despite creating better global o...

MerLean: An Agentic Framework for Autoformalization in Quantum Computation

Yuanjie Ren, Jinzheng Li, Yidi QiPublished: 2026-02-18
We introduce MerLean, a fully automated agentic framework for autoformalization in quantum computation. MerLean extracts mathematical statements from \LaTeX{} source files, formalizes them into verified Lean~4 code built on Mathlib, and translates the result back into human-readable \LaTeX{} for semantic review. We evaluate MerLean on three theoretical quantum computing papers producing 2,050 Lean...

Magnetic resonance in quantum computing and in accurate measurements of the nuclear moments of atoms and molecules

Zhichen Liu, 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...

🏢 Company Papers

Aletheia tackles FirstProof autonomously

Tony Feng, Junehyuk Jung, Sang-hyun Kim, Carlo Pagano, Sergei Gukov, Chiang-Chiang Tsai, David Woodruff, Adel Javanmard, Aryan Mokhtari, Dawsen Hwang, Yuri Chervonyi, Jonathan N. Lee, Garrett Bingham, Trieu H. Trinh, Vahab Mirrokni, Quoc V. Le, Thang LuongPublished: 2026-02-24
We report the performance of Aletheia (Feng et al., 2026b), a mathematics research agent powered by Gemini 3 Deep Think, on the inaugural FirstProof challenge. Within the allowed timeframe of the challenge, Aletheia autonomously solved 6 problems (2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10) out of 10 according to majority expert assessments; we note that experts were not unanimous on Problem 8 (only). For full transparenc...

Improved Fermionic Scattering for the NISQ Era

Michael HitePublished: 2025-05-01
In the era of noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) hardware, digital quantum computers are limited to shallow circuits on the order of a thousand layers due to system noise and qubit decoherence. Thus, every step of a simulation must be as efficient as possible. Modifying the recent Givens Rotation state preparation by Chai et al and ladder operator block encoding method by Simon et al, we prop...

Minimal Time Robust for Two Superconducting Qubits

Niril George, Joseph L. Allen, Robert Kosut, Eran GinossarPublished: 2019-02-21
High-fidelity quantum gates are crucial for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing; however, decoherence significantly reduces gate fidelities during long operation times. Although optimal control techniques can theoretically minimize these operation times, they often neglect realistic uncertainties in system parameters. In this work, we demonstrate that by using robust optimal control strateg...

$σ$-VQE: Excited-state preparation of quantum many-body scars with shallow circuits

Eoin Carolan, Nathan Keenan, Gabriele Cenedese, Giuliano BenentiPublished: 2026-02-24
We present and benchmark a type of variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), which we denote the $σ$-VQE. It is designed to target mid-spectrum eigenstates and prepare quantum many-body scar states. The approach leverages the fact that noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices are limited in their ability to generate generic highly-entangled states. This modified VQE pairs a low-depth circuit with an ...

Disorder-independent hole spin manipulation by hopping

Biel Martinez, Ana Sempere-Sanchis, José C. Abadillo-Uriel, Yann-Michel NiquetPublished: 2026-02-24
Spin manipulation by hopping has recently emerged as a promising strategy to control hole spins in quantum dots using exclusively baseband control, thereby mitigating power dissipation and high-frequency management constraints in large-scale architectures. Unlike conventional approaches such as electron dipole spin resonance (EDSR), this mechanism exploits dot-to-dot variations of the spin precess...

First- and Second-Order Digital Quantum Simulation of Three-Level Jaynes-Cummings Dynamics on Superconducting Quantum Processors

J. Thirunirai Selvam, S. Saravana Veni, Ria Rushin JosephPublished: 2026-02-24
This work presents a digital quantum simulation of a three-level atomic system interacting with a single-mode electromagnetic field based on the Jaynes-Cummings model, implemented on IBM Quantum superconducting processors. A qutrit is encoded using two physical qubits to represent the atomic states, while an additional qubit encodes the truncated field mode, enabling the realization of effective $...

Improving initial-state-dependent quantum circuit optimization by introducing state labels

Toshiaki Kaji, Koji Terashi, Ryu SawadaPublished: 2025-09-05
While the capabilities of quantum hardware have significantly advanced in recent years, executing quantum algorithms as quantum circuits at the lowest possible cost remains crucial, regardless of the hardware progress. We are developing a quantum-state-dependent circuit optimizer called AQCEL. Our guiding principle, implemented as the AQCEL optimization protocol, is to optimize quantum circuits by...

Indaleko: The Unified Personal Index

William Anthony MasonPublished: 2026-02-24
Personal information retrieval fails when systems ignore how human memory works. While existing platforms force keyword searches across isolated silos, humans naturally recall through episodic cues like when, where, and in what context information was encountered. This dissertation presents the Unified Personal Index (UPI), a memory-aligned architecture that bridges this fundamental gap. The Indal...

📚 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...