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Logarithmic-depth quantum state preparation of polynomials

Baptiste Claudon, Alexis Lucas, Jean-Philip Piquemal, César Feniou, Julien Zylberman2026-03-17T13:50 Score: 0.54
Quantum state preparation is a central primitive in many quantum algorithms, yet it is generally resource intensive, with efficient constructions known only for structured families of states. This wor...

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Measuring out-of-time-order correlators on a quantum computer based on an irreversibility-susceptibility method

Haruki Emori, Hiroyasu TajimaPublished: 2025-12-27
The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is a powerful tool for probing quantum information scrambling, a fundamental process by which local information spreads irreversibly throughout a quantum many-body system. Experimentally measuring the OTOC, however, is notoriously challenging due to the need for time-reversed evolution. Here, we present an experimental evaluation of the OTOC on a quantum c...

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...

Velocity-Enabled Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms

Ohad Lib, Hendrik Timme, Maximilian Ammenwerth, Flavien Gyger, Renhao Tao, Shijia Sun, Immanuel Bloch, Johannes ZeiherPublished: 2026-03-16
Realizing error-corrected logical qubits is a central goal for the current development of digital quantum computers. Neutral atoms offer the opportunity to coherently shuttle atoms for realizing efficient quantum error correction based on long-range connectivity and parallel atom transport. Nevertheless, time overheads in shuttling atoms and complex control hardware pose challenges to scaling curr...

QiboAgent: a practitioner's guideline to open source assistants for Quantum Computing code development

Lorenzo Esposito, Andrea Papaluca, Stefano CarrazzaPublished: 2026-03-16
We introduce QiboAgent, a reference implementation designed to serve as a practitioner's guideline for developing specialized coding assistants in Quantum Computing middleware. Addressing the limitations in scientific software development of general-purpose proprietary models, we explore how lightweight, open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) provided with a custom workflow architecture compare....

Analog-Digital Quantum Computing with Quantum Annealing Processors

Rahul Deshpande, Majid Kheirkhah, Chris Rich, Richard Harris, Jack Raymond, Emile Hoskinson, Pratik Sathe, Andrew J. Berkley, Stefan Paul, Brian Barch, Daniel A. Lidar, Markus Müller, Gabriel Aeppli, Andrew D. King, Mohammad H. AminPublished: 2026-03-16
Quantum annealing processors typically control qubits in unison, attenuating quantum fluctuations uniformly until the applied system Hamiltonian is diagonal in the computational basis. This simplifies control requirements, allowing annealing QPUs to scale to much larger sizes than gate-based systems, but constraining the class of available operations. Here we expand the class by performing analog-...

QuantumX: an experience for the consolidation of Quantum Computing and Quantum Software Engineering as an emerging discipline

Juan M. Murillo, Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán, Enrique Moguel, Javier Romero-Álvarez, Jaime Alvarado-Valiente, Álvaro M. Aparicio-Morales, Jose Garcia-Alonso, Ana Díaz Muñoz, Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Francisco Chicano, Carlos Canal, José Daniel Viqueira, Sebastián Villarroya, Eduardo Gutiérrez, Adrián Romero-Flores, Alfonso E. Márquez-Chamorro, Antonio Ruiz-Cortes, Cyrille YetuYetu Kesiku, Pedro Sánchez, Diego Alonso Cáceres, Lidia Sánchez-González, Fernando PlouPublished: 2026-03-11
The first edition of the QuantumX track, held within the XXIX Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2025), brought together leading Spanish research groups working at the intersection of Quantum Computing and Software Engineering. The event served as a pioneering forum to explore how principles of software quality, governance, testing, orchestration, and abstraction can be ad...

Cavity-Free Distributed Quantum Computing with Rydberg Ensembles via Collective Enhancement

Aman UllahPublished: 2026-03-16
A complete architecture for cavity-free quantum networking based on collective enhancement in Rydberg atom ensembles is presented. The protocol exploits Rydberg blockade and phase-matched directional emission to eliminate optical cavities without sacrificing performance. The architecture comprises three steps: (i) local control-ensemble entanglement via Rydberg blockade with fidelity $F_{\mathrm{g...

Adaptive Control of Stochastic Error Accumulation in Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Tirtha HaquePublished: 2026-03-16
In realistic hardware for quantum computation that possesses fault-tolerance, non-stationary noise and stochastic drift lead to logical failure from the temporal accumulation of errors, not from independent events. Static decoding and fixed calibration techniques are structurally incompatible with this situation because they do not take into account temporal correlations between errors or control-...

Neutron-nucleus dynamics simulations for quantum computers

Soorya Rethinasamy, Ethan Guo, Alexander Wei, Mark M. Wilde, Kristina D. LauneyPublished: 2024-02-22
With a view toward addressing the explosive growth in the computational demands of nuclear structure and reactions modeling, we develop a novel quantum algorithm for neutron-nucleus simulations with general potentials, which provides acceptable bound-state energies even in the presence of noise, through the noise-resilient training method. In particular, the algorithm can now solve for any band-di...

Quantum computing of nonlinear reacting flows via the probability density function method

Jizhi Zhang, Ziang Yang, Zhaoyuan Meng, Zhen Lu, Yue YangPublished: 2025-12-08
Quantum computing offers the promise of speedups for scientific computations, but its application to reacting flows is hindered by nonlinear source terms, the challenges of time-dependent simulations, and the difficulty of extracting meaningful physical quantities from quantum states. We employ a probability density function (PDF) formulation to transform the nonlinear reacting-flow governing equa...

🏢 Company Papers

Surface Code Stabilizer Measurements for Rydberg Atoms

Sven Jandura, Laura Pecorari, Guido PupilloPublished: 2024-05-26
We consider stabilizer measurements for surface codes with neutral atoms and identify gate protocols that minimize logical error rates in the presence of a fundamental error source -- spontaneous emission from Rydberg states. We demonstrate that logical error rates are minimized by protocols that prevent the propagation of Rydberg leakage errors and not by protocols that minimize the physical two-...

Measuring out-of-time-order correlators on a quantum computer based on an irreversibility-susceptibility method

Haruki Emori, Hiroyasu TajimaPublished: 2025-12-27
The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is a powerful tool for probing quantum information scrambling, a fundamental process by which local information spreads irreversibly throughout a quantum many-body system. Experimentally measuring the OTOC, however, is notoriously challenging due to the need for time-reversed evolution. Here, we present an experimental evaluation of the OTOC on a quantum c...

Reducing quantum error correction overhead using soft information

Joonas Majaniemi, Elisha S. MatekolePublished: 2025-04-04
Imperfect measurements are a prevalent source of error across quantum computing platforms, significantly degrading the logical error rates achievable on current hardware. To mitigate this issue, rich measurement data referred to as soft information has been proposed to efficiently identify and correct measurement errors as they occur. In this work, we model soft information decoding across a varie...

Secure Quantum Communication: Simulation and Analysis of Quantum Key Distribution Protocols

Mahendra Rasay, Emmanuel D. Sebastian, Subhash Prasad Sah, David Chinamerem Akah, Ajay Kumar SinghPublished: 2026-03-17
Quantum computing poses significant threats to conventional cryptographic techniques such as RSA and AES, motivating the need for quantum secure communication methods. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) offers information theoretic security based on fundamental quantum principles. This paper presents a simulation-based analysis of well-known QKD protocols, namely BB84, B92, and E91, using the IBM Qisk...

CritiSense: Critical Digital Literacy and Resilience Against Misinformation

Firoj Alam, Fatema Ahmad, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Elisa Sartori, Giovanni Da San Martino, Abul Hasnat, Raian AliPublished: 2026-03-17
Misinformation on social media undermines informed decision-making and public trust. Prebunking offers a proactive complement by helping users recognize manipulation tactics before they encounter them in the wild. We present CritiSense, a mobile media-literacy app that builds these skills through short, interactive challenges with instant feedback. It is the first multilingual (supporting nine lan...

Signatures of Reconnection and a Split Heliospheric Tail in High-Energy Energetic Neutral Atoms

M. Kornbleuth, M. Opher, J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, Zhiyu Yin, K. Dialynas, Y. Chen, J. Giacalone, J. M. Sokół, M. Gkioulidou, I. Baliukin, V. Izmodenov, G. P. ZankPublished: 2026-03-13
The shape of the heliosphere, regarded as comet-like since the 1960s, has recently been the subject of intense debate in the last decade. There is disagreement whether the heliospheric tail extends to $\sim$10,000 au in a comet-like shape or if it is short ($\sim$400 au) with a split. Energetic neutral atom (ENA) maps from Cassini/INCA at energies from 5.2 to 13.5 keV revealed a global structure e...

CryoCMOS RF multiplexer for superconducting qubit control, readout and flux biasing at millikelvin temperatures with picowatt power consumption

Liam Fallik, Sriram Balamurali, Alican Caglar, Rohith Acharya, Jacques Van Damme, Tsvetan Ivanov, Shana Massar, Ruben Asanovski, A. M. Vadiraj, Massimo Mongillo, Jan Craninckx, Alexander Grill, Danny Wan, Anton Potočnik, Kristiaan De GrevePublished: 2026-03-17
Large-scale cryogenic quantum systems are constrained by an input-output bottleneck between room-temperature electronics and millikelvin stages, particularly in superconducting qubit platforms. This bottleneck is most acute for output lines, where bulky and expensive microwave components limit scalability. A promising approach for scalable characterization and testing is to perform signal multiple...

Logarithmic-depth quantum state preparation of polynomials

Baptiste Claudon, Alexis Lucas, Jean-Philip Piquemal, César Feniou, Julien ZylbermanPublished: 2026-03-17
Quantum state preparation is a central primitive in many quantum algorithms, yet it is generally resource intensive, with efficient constructions known only for structured families of states. This work introduces a method for preparing quantum states whose amplitudes are given by a degree$-d$ polynomial, using circuits with logarithmic depth in the number $n$ of qubits and only $\mathcal O(n)$ anc...

📚 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...