arXiv:2606. 19486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Characterizing the features of a Hamiltonian that governs a quantum system serves as a fundamental subroutine of quantum device calibration, signal sensing, and error correction.
By Taiqi Zhou, Weiyuan Gong
arXiv:2607. 18552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) uses the dynamics of a fixed or weakly tuned quantum system to transform temporal and sequential inputs into measured features, while training is typically confined to a classical readout.
By Shehbaz Tariq, Muhammad Talha, Arshid Ali, Muhammad Diyan, Symeon Chatzinotas
arXiv:2510. 12430v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Translating a general quantum circuit on a specific hardware topology with a reduced set of available gates, also known as transpilation, comes with a substantial increase in the length of the equivalent circuit.
By Bodo Rosenhahn, Tobias J. Osborne, Christoph Hirche
arXiv:2510. 05531v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bosonic Gaussian unitaries are fundamental building blocks of central continuous-variable quantum technologies such as quantum-optic interferometry and bosonic error-correction schemes.
By Marco Fanizza, Vishnu Iyer, Junseo Lee, Antonio A. Mele, Francesco A. Mele
arXiv:2606. 09734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training parameterised quantum circuits (PQCs) on quantum hardware is bottlenecked by the measurement cost of gradient estimation, which under the parameter-shift rule scales linearly in the number of trainable parameters and dominates the total shot budget of training at scale.
By Brian Coyle, Snehal Raj, Virag Umathe, El Amine Cherrat, Elham Kashefi
arXiv:2607. 20943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) is a foundational algorithm for molecular ground-state energy estimation, but its deep circuit requirements make direct hardware execution impractical on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices.
By Mousumi Kundu, Ashish Kumar Patra, Anurag K. S. V., Ruchika Bhat, Sai Shankar P., Alok Shukla, Jaiganesh G
arXiv:2607. 18865v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural quantum states offer expressive representations of quantum many-body wave functions, yet their practical accuracy can be limited by stochastic optimization rather than representational capacity.
By Shiwei Zhou, Yiming Huang, Xiao Yuan, Xiaoxia Cai
Neural quantum states (NQS) provide a flexible and scalable framework for approximating quantum many-body wavefunctions. Among NQS parameterizations, autoregressive models are especially attractive because they enable exact, independent sampling from the Born distribution, avoiding the autocorrelation and mixing issues of Markov chain methods.
arXiv:2504. 03626v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present quantum speedups for sampling from distributions of the form $\pi\propto e^{-f}$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$.
By Guneykan Ozgul, Xiantao Li, Mehrdad Mahdavi, Chunhao Wang
The paper investigates whether quantum reinforcement learning algorithms can be matched by efficient classical methods. It focuses on a simplified reinforcement learning setting with a uniform generative model, providing finite‑sample guarantees for classical kernelized Fitted Q‑Iteration that uses kernels aligned with parameterized quantum circuits. The authors identify sufficient conditions on data encoding, kernel choice, and problem structure under which this classical approach dequantizes quantum Q‑learning, and suggest using kernelized Fitted Q‑Iteration as a heuristic when those conditions cannot be verified.
By Pablo Rodriguez-Grasa, Sofiene Jerbi, Mikel Sanz, Ryan Sweke
arXiv:2607. 18865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural quantum states offer expressive representations of quantum many-body wave functions, yet their practical accuracy can be limited by stochastic optimization rather than representational capacity.
By Shiwei Zhou, Yiming Huang, Xiao Yuan, Xiaoxia Cai
arXiv:2411. 19896v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the capabilities of classical simulation methods is key to identifying where quantum computers are advantageous.
By Sacha Lerch, Ricard Puig, Manuel S. Rudolph, Armando Angrisani, Tyson Jones, M. Cerezo, Supanut Thanasilp, Zo\"e Holmes