arXiv:2608.20660v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Simulating a continuous-time quantum walk (CTQW) on a graph in the circuit model of quantum computing requires decomposing its Hamiltonian into terms...
By Mostafa Atallah, Rebekah Herrman, Zain H. Saleem
arXiv:2606. 30358v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We design an algorithm for learning the coefficients of an $n$-qubit constant-local Lindbladian to $\varepsilon$ error with $O(g d^2 \log(n) / \varepsilon^2)$ total evolution time, where $g$ is the single-site energy and $d$ is the (approximate) degree of the interaction graph.
By Laura Lewis, Ewin Tang, John Wright
Quantum circuit optimization for fault-tolerant computing requires exact functional equivalence while minimizing expensive non-Clifford resources such as T gates. We study this problem using a compact 44.
Bridge of Ψ's (BOPS) is a generative model that learns to transform quantum circuits into equivalent, optimized versions using Schr"odinger bridges and a custom denoiser architecture. Trained on data engineered to challenge existing optimizers, BOPS achieves a 2.46× reduction in gate count and a 2.45× reduction in depth on 8‑qubit, 64‑depth Clifford+$T$ circuits, outperforming nine baseline optimizers. This work demonstrates the first successful application of generative machine learning to quantum circuit optimization, expanding the quantum compilation stack with learned techniques.
By Lino S. Hofstetter, Lia Yeh, Prakash Murali
arXiv:2607. 12780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum circuit optimization for fault-tolerant computing requires exact functional equivalence while minimizing expensive non-Clifford resources such as T gates.
By Mehdi Saeedi, Eddie Richter, Paul Hartke
arXiv:2607. 20225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While combinatorial optimization problems are central to many scientific and engineering applications, their solution remains challenging due to exponentially large search spaces.
By Seongmin Kim, Abhinav Rijal, Yuri Alexeev, Nora Bauer, Martin Roetteler, Mina Yoon, George Siopsis, In-Saeng Suh
arXiv:2606. 01291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) under Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) constraints introduces severe computational limitations: classical statevector simulation memory scales exponentially ($\mathcal{O}(2^n)$), and global cost functions suffer from barren plateaus where gradient variance decays exponentially ($\mathcal{O}(1/2^n)$).
By Syed Farhan Ahmad, Gregory T. Byrd
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:2607. 16800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a leading paradigm for near-term quantum computing, yet their training suffers from sensitivity to circuit depth, initialization, and landscape pathologies such as barren plateaus.
By Athanasios Hadjidimoulas, Tirthak Patel, Anastasios Kyrillidis
The paper introduces CTQW-GNN, a graph neural network that uses Continuous‑Time Quantum Walks (CTQW) to address two common GNN problems: low‑pass bias on heterophilic graphs and over‑smoothing with deep layers. By exploiting the unitary nature of the CTQW propagator, the model preserves high‑frequency signals and maintains feature norms across layers. Three aggregation modules—CTQW‑based, CTQW‑attention, and a low‑pass GAT branch—combine to handle both heterophilic and homophilic graph structures, supported by spectral‑gap analysis and a Lieb–Robinson‑type bound for walk‑time selection.
By Yuliang Zhan, Zefeng Gao, Jian Li, Yang Liu, Hao sun
arXiv:2605. 14672v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Estimating an $N \times N$ quantum kernel from circuit fidelities requires $\Theta(N^2 S)$ measurement shots, the dominant bottleneck for deployment on near-term hardware.
By Jian Xu, Chao Li, Delu Zeng, John Paisley, Qibin Zhao
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