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12 papers

quant-ph2026

Robust Quantum Machine Learning for Collider Event Selection under Detector Variability

Christopher Brown, Michael Spannowsky, Simon Williams

Robust machine-learning methods are becoming increasingly important for high-energy physics data analysis as experiments enter the era of higher luminosity and future higher-energy…

physics.ins-det2026

Machine Learning on Heterogeneous, Edge, and Quantum Hardware for Particle Physics (ML-HEQUPP)

Julia Gonski, Jenni Ott, Shiva Abbaszadeh +118

The next generation of particle physics experiments will face a new era of challenges in data acquisition, due to unprecedented data rates and volumes along with extreme environmen…

hep-ph2025

Another Fit Bites the Dust: Conformal Prediction as a Calibration Standard for Machine Learning in High-Energy Physics

Jack Y. Araz, Michael Spannowsky

Machine-learning techniques are essential in modern collider research, yet their probabilistic outputs often lack calibrated uncertainty estimates and finite-sample guarantees, lim…

quant-ph2025

Qumode Tensor Networks for False Vacuum Decay in Quantum Field Theory

Steven Abel, Michael Spannowsky, Simon Williams

False vacuum decay in scalar quantum field theory (QFT) is a cornerstone of early Universe cosmology and high energy physics, yet its real-time dynamics is essentially inaccessible…

hep-ph2025

QINNs: Quantum-Informed Neural Networks

Aritra Bal, Markus Klute, Benedikt Maier +3

Classical deep neural networks can learn rich multi-particle correlations in collider data, but their inductive biases are rarely anchored in physics structure. We propose quantum-…

quant-ph2025

Continuous-variable photonic quantum extreme learning machines for fast collider-data selection

Benedikt Maier, Michael Spannowsky, Simon Williams

We study continuous-variable photonic quantum extreme learning machines as fast, low-overhead front-ends for collider data processing. Data is encoded in photonic modes through qua…