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Novel permanent magnet array geometries for scalable trapped-ion quantum computing in a laser-free entanglement architecture

Mitchell G. PeaksPublished: 2026-04-03
A novel design is presented for a permanent magnet array to address specific challenges with scalable trapped-ion quantum computing systems. Design and optimization of this magnet geometry is motivated by concepts for large-scale Quantum Charge-Coupled Device (QCCD) architectures. This proposal is relevant to magnetic field gradient schemes for laser-free entanglement using long-wavelength radiati...

Advances in Josephson Junction Materials and Processes Toward Practical Quantum Computing

Hyunseong Kim, Gyunghyun Jang, Seungwon Jin, Dongbin Shin, Hyeon-Jin Shin, Jie Luo, Akel Hashim, Irfan Siddiqi, Yosep Kim, Long B. Nguyen, Hoon Hahn YoonPublished: 2025-05-19
The Josephson junction is the fundamental nonlinear building block of superconducting quantum technologies. Its macroscopic quantum tunneling physics underpins superconducting quantum computing, sensing, and communication, but scaling these platforms to utility-scale architectures places increasingly stringent demands on junction materials, interfaces, and fabrication. In quantum computing, these ...

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...

The Convergence Frontier: Integrating Machine Learning and High Performance Quantum Computing for Next-Generation Drug Discovery

Narjes Ansari, César Feniou, Nicolaï Gouraud, Daniele Loco, Siwar Badreddine, Baptiste Claudon, Félix Aviat, Marharyta Blazhynska, Kevin Gasperich, Guillaume Michel, Diata Traore, Corentin Villot, Thomas Plé, Olivier Adjoua, Louis Lagardère, Jean-Philip PiquemalPublished: 2026-03-18
Integrating quantum mechanics into drug discovery marks a decisive shift from empirical trial-and-error toward quantitative precision. However, the prohibitive cost of ab initio molecular dynamics has historically forced a compromise between chemical accuracy and computational scalability. This paper identifies the convergence of High-Performance Computing (HPC), Machine Learning (ML), and Quantum...

Towards reconstructing quantum structured light on a quantum computer

Mwezi Koni, Shawal Kassim, Paola C. Obando, Neelan Gounden, Isaac NapePublished: 2025-09-26
We introduce a variational quantum computing approach for quantum state reconstruction within a discretized logical framework, using experimental measurement data as input. By mapping the reconstruction cost function onto an Ising model, the problem can be solved using a variational eigensolver on present-day quantum hardware identifying dominant logical elements of the density matrix. As a proof ...

Blind quantum computing with different qudit resource state architectures

Alena Romanova, Wolfgang DürPublished: 2025-10-07
We discuss how blind quantum computing generalizes to multi-level quantum systems (qudits), which offers advantages compared to the qubit approach. Here, a quantum computing task is delegated to an untrusted server while simultaneously preventing the server from retrieving information about the computation it performs, the input, and the output, enabling secure cloud-based quantum computing. In th...

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) ...

🏢 Company Papers

Vibe Coding XR: Accelerating AI + XR Prototyping with XR Blocks and Gemini

Ruofei Du, Benjamin Hersh, David Li, Nels Numan, Xun Qian, Yanhe Chen, Zhongyi Zhou, Xingyue Chen, Jiahao Ren, Robert Timothy Bettridge, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Faraz Faruqi, Steve Toh, David KimPublished: 2026-03-25
While large language models (LLMs) have accelerated 2D software development through intent-driven "vibe coding", prototyping intelligent Extended Reality (XR) experiences remains a major challenge. The fundamental barrier is not just the steep learning curve for human creators, but that low-level sensor APIs and complex game engine hierarchies are ill-suited for LLM reasoning, routinely exceeding ...

Comparison of Two-Level System Microwave Losses in Pure Bulk Microcrystalline Nb2O5 and NbO2 Oxide Samples

Vishal Ganesan, Jiankun Zhang, Drew G. Wild, Alexey BezryadinPublished: 2026-01-10
Losses from two-level systems (TLS) associated with amorphous oxides remain one of the primary limitations to the performance of superconducting qubits and microwave cavities. Niobium resonators are widely used in quantum science experiments, yet niobium's natural oxide layer contains various types of oxides whose relative contributions to TLS loss have not been clearly distinguished. Here, we use...

Novel permanent magnet array geometries for scalable trapped-ion quantum computing in a laser-free entanglement architecture

Mitchell G. PeaksPublished: 2026-04-03
A novel design is presented for a permanent magnet array to address specific challenges with scalable trapped-ion quantum computing systems. Design and optimization of this magnet geometry is motivated by concepts for large-scale Quantum Charge-Coupled Device (QCCD) architectures. This proposal is relevant to magnetic field gradient schemes for laser-free entanglement using long-wavelength radiati...

Scene Grounding In the Wild

Tamir Cohen, Leo Segre, Shay Shomer-Chai, Shai Avidan, Hadar Averbuch-ElorPublished: 2026-03-27
Reconstructing accurate 3D models of large-scale real-world scenes from unstructured, in-the-wild imagery remains a core challenge in computer vision, especially when the input views have little or no overlap. In such cases, existing reconstruction pipelines often produce multiple disconnected partial reconstructions or erroneously merge non-overlapping regions into overlapping geometry. In this w...

Continuous-time evolution via probabilistic angle interpolation and its applications

Tomoya Hayata, Yuta KikuchiPublished: 2026-04-03
We explore the applicability of a stochastic time-evolution algorithm based on probabilistic angle interpolation. To simplify the pre-processing of the algorithm, we take the continuous-time limit, thereby explicitly eliminating Trotter errors and streamlining the resource analysis. We also introduce a noise-mitigation method tailored to it. As demonstrations, we apply the algorithm to two represe...

Characterizing charge-parity detection based on an offset-charge-tunable transmon qubit via randomized benchmarking

Yao-Yao Jiang, Tang Su, Yuxiang Liu, Yi-Ming Guo, Yidong Song, Yu-Long Li, Yanjie Zeng, Guang-Ming Xue, Wei-Jie Sun, Mei-Ling Li, Yi-Rong Jin, Junhua Wang, Xuegang Li, Hai-Feng YuPublished: 2026-04-03
Superconducting qubits are compelling platforms for charge-parity detection and, due to their theoretical sensitivity on the meV energy scale, hold promise for rare event searches. In this work, we realize high-fidelity mapping of charge-parity states onto qubit states using an offset-charge-tunable transmon qubit and efficiently characterize the fidelity of the charge-parity detection via randomi...

GrandCode: Achieving Grandmaster Level in Competitive Programming via Agentic Reinforcement Learning

DeepReinforce Team, Xiaoya Li, Xiaofei Sun, Guoyin Wang, Songqiao Su, Chris Shum, Jiwei LiPublished: 2026-04-03
Competitive programming remains one of the last few human strongholds in coding against AI. The best AI system to date still underperforms the best humans competitive programming: the most recent best result, Google's Gemini~3 Deep Think, attained 8th place even not being evaluated under live competition conditions. In this work, we introduce GrandCode, a multi-agent RL system designed for competi...

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of DINOv2 for Large-Scale Font Classification

Daniel Chen, Zaria Zinn, Marcus LowePublished: 2026-02-14
We introduce GoogleFontsBench, the first public benchmark for classifying open-source web fonts, addressing a gap left by existing benchmarks that cover only commercial typefaces. GoogleFontsBench comprises 394 font variants across 32 Google Fonts families, a reproducible synthetic data generation pipeline (~575 images per variant, ~226K total), and a typographically-grounded evaluation metric (SW...

📚 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...