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Quantum-enhanced satellite image classification

Qi Zhang, Anton Simen, Carlos Flores-Garrigós, Gabriel Alvarado Barrios, Paolo A. Erdman, Enrique Solano, Aaron C. Kemp, Vincent Beltrani, Vedangi Pathak, Hamed Mohammadbagherpoor2026-02-20T17:02 Score: 0.30
We demonstrate the application of a quantum feature extraction method to enhance multi-class image classification for space applications. By harnessing the dynamics of many-body spin Hamiltonians, the...

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📄 Technology Papers

Quantum Computer Controlled by Superconducting Digital Electronics at Millikelvin Temperature

Caleb Jordan, Jacob Bernhardt, Joseph Rahamim, Alex Kirchenko, Karthik Bharadwaj, Louis Fry-Bouriaux, Katie Porsch, Aaron Somoroff, Kan-Ting Tsai, Jason Walter, Adam Weis, Meng-Ju Yu, Mario Renzullo, Daniel Yohannes, Igor Vernik, Oleg Mukhanov, 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...

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...

Resource-Efficient Hadamard Test Tailored Variational Framework for Nonlinear Dynamics on Quantum Computers

Eleftherios Mastorakis, Muhammad Umer, Milena Guevara-Bertsch, Juris Ulmanis, Felix Rohde, Dimitris G. AngelakisPublished: 2025-07-25
Resource-efficient, low-depth implementations of quantum circuits remain a promising strategy for achieving reliable and scalable computation on quantum hardware, as they reduce gate resources and limit the accumulation of noisy operations. Here, we propose a low-depth implementation of a class of Hadamard test circuits, complemented by the development of a parameterized quantum ansatz specificall...

Superconducting pairing correlations on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Etienne Granet, Sheng-Hsuan Lin, Kevin Hémery, Reza Haghshenas, Pablo Andres-Martinez, David T. Stephen, Anthony Ransford, Jake Arkinstall, M. S. Allman, Pete Campora, Samuel F. Cooper, Robert D. Delaney, Joan M. Dreiling, Brian Estey, Caroline Figgatt, Cameron Foltz, John P. Gaebler, Alex Hall, Ali Husain, Akhil Isanaka, Colin J. Kennedy, Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Ivaylo S. Madjarov, Michael Mills, Alistair R. Milne, Annie J. Park, Adam P. Reed, Brian Neyenhuis, Justin G. Bohnet, Michael Foss-Feig, Andrew C. Potter, Ramil Nigmatullin, Mohsin Iqbal, Henrik DreyerPublished: 2025-11-03
The Fermi-Hubbard model is the starting point for the simulation of many strongly correlated materials, including high-temperature superconductors, whose modelling is a key motivation for the construction of quantum simulation and computing devices. However, the detection of superconducting pairing correlations has so far remained out of reach, both because of their off-diagonal character - which ...

Drone delivery packing problem on a neutral-atom quantum computer

Sara Tarquini, Matteo Vandelli, Francesco Ferrari, Daniele Dragoni, Francesco TudiscoPublished: 2026-02-17
Quantum architectures based on neutral atoms have gained significant attention in recent years as specialized computational machines due to their ability to directly encode the independent set constraint on graphs, exploiting the Rydberg blockade mechanism. In this work, we address the Drone Delivery Packing Problem via a hybrid quantum-classical framework leveraging a neutral-atom quantum process...

🏢 Company Papers

Improving Single Excitation Fidelity in Rydberg Superatoms for Efficient Single Photon Emission

Vidisha Aggarwal, Boxi Li, Eloisa Cuestas, Tommaso Calarco, Robert Zeier, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Felix MotzoiPublished: 2026-02-20
Deterministic single photon emission from a Rydberg ensemble coupled to an optical cavity requires high-fidelity preparation of collective single excitations. In such a setup imperfect Rydberg blockade can lead to unwanted double excitations, which degrade photon indistinguishability. In this work we adapt the Derivative Removal by Adiabatic Gate (DRAG) technique, originally developed for supercon...

Quantum-enhanced satellite image classification

Qi Zhang, Anton Simen, Carlos Flores-Garrigós, Gabriel Alvarado Barrios, Paolo A. Erdman, Enrique Solano, Aaron C. Kemp, Vincent Beltrani, Vedangi Pathak, Hamed MohammadbagherpoorPublished: 2026-02-20
We demonstrate the application of a quantum feature extraction method to enhance multi-class image classification for space applications. By harnessing the dynamics of many-body spin Hamiltonians, the method generates expressive quantum features that, when combined with classical processing, lead to quantum-enhanced classification accuracy. Using a strong and well-established ResNet50 baseline, we...

G-LoG Bi-filtration for Medical Image Classification

Qingsong Wang, Jiaxing He, Bingzhe Hou, Tieru Wu, Yang Cao, Cailing YaoPublished: 2026-02-20
Building practical filtrations on objects to detect topological and geometric features is an important task in the field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA). In this paper, leveraging the ability of the Laplacian of Gaussian operator to enhance the boundaries of medical images, we define the G-LoG (Gaussian-Laplacian of Gaussian) bi-filtration to generate the features more suitable for multi-parame...

FeatureBleed: Inferring Private Enriched Attributes From Sparsity-Optimized AI Accelerators

Darsh Asher, Farshad Dizani, Joshua Kalyanapu, Rosario Cammarota, Aydin Aysu, Samira Mirbagher AjorpazPublished: 2026-02-20
Backend enrichment is now widely deployed in sensitive domains such as product recommendation pipelines, healthcare, and finance, where models are trained on confidential data and retrieve private features whose values influence inference behavior while remaining hidden from the API caller. This paper presents the first hardware-level backend retrieval data-stealing attack, showing that accelerato...

Photonic-computing error correction through optical en-/decoder calibrations

Adam Carstensen, Babak Vosoughi LahijaniPublished: 2026-02-20
Photonic processors have emerged as an attractive platform for fast and energy-efficient matrix-vector multiplication. However, they are susceptible to error due to their analog nature. Here, we present an error-correction technique that implements a correction offset to the optical en-/decoders of photonic processors. Our proposed method is general-purpose, does not require introducing any additi...

Quantum noise modeling through Reinforcement Learning

Simone Bordoni, Andrea Papaluca, Piergiorgio Buttarini, Alejandro Sopena, Stefano Giagu, Stefano CarrazzaPublished: 2024-08-02
In the current era of quantum computing, robust and efficient tools are essential to bridge the gap between simulations and quantum hardware execution. In this work, we introduce a machine learning approach to characterize the noise impacting a quantum chip and emulate it during simulations. Our algorithm leverages reinforcement learning, offering increased flexibility in reproducing various noise...

Comparative Assessment of Multimodal Earth Observation Data for Soil Moisture Estimation

Ioannis Kontogiorgakis, Athanasios Askitopoulos, Iason Tsardanidis, Dimitrios Bormpoudakis, Ilias Tsoumas, Fotios Balampanis, Charalampos KontoesPublished: 2026-02-20
Accurate soil moisture (SM) estimation is critical for precision agriculture, water resources management and climate monitoring. Yet, existing satellite SM products are too coarse (>1km) for farm-level applications. We present a high-resolution (10m) SM estimation framework for vegetated areas across Europe, combining Sentinel-1 SAR, Sentinel-2 optical imagery and ERA-5 reanalysis data through mac...

Observation of Robust and Coherent Non-Abelian Hadron Dynamics on Noisy Quantum Processors

Fran Ilčić, Ritajit Majumdar, Emil Mathew, Nathan Earnest-Noble, Indrakshi RaychowdhuryPublished: 2026-02-20
The real-time evolution of strongly interacting matter remains a frontier of fundamental physics, as classical simulations are hampered by exponential Hilbert space growth and entanglement-driven bottlenecks in tensor networks. This study reports the quantum simulation of hadron dynamics within a $(1+1)$-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory using a 156-qubit IBM superconducting processor. Levera...

📚 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...