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most citedNoisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) algorithms

1.8k citations · 3.4k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

hep-ph2026

Quantum probes of invisible particles in top-quark pair production at the LHC

Blanca Belmonte, Diego Blas, Alba Cervera-Lierta +1

Top-quark pair production at the LHC provides a bipartite spin system whose correlations are imprinted in the angular distributions of the decay products and can be studied with qu…

eess.IV2026

Quantum Diffusion Models for Medical Image Analysis

Francesco Aldo Venturelli, Stefano Martina, Marco Parigi +3

Quantum Machine Learning is a novel field of research aimed at devising machine learning approaches exploiting principles of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, entanglement…

cs.LG2026

Towards interpretable AI with quantum annealing feature selection

Francesco Aldo Venturelli, Emanuele Costa, Sikha O K +3

Deep learning models are used in critical applications, in which mistakes can have serious consequences. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how and why models generate predicti…

quant-ph2026

Warm Starts, Cold States: Exploiting Adiabaticity for Variational Ground-States

Ricard Puig, Berta Casas, Alba Cervera-Lierta +2

Reliable preparation of many-body ground states is an essential task in quantum computing, with applications spanning areas from chemistry and materials modeling to quantum optimiz…

quant-ph2026

Hardware-inspired Continuous Variables Quantum Optical Neural Networks

Todor Krasimirov-Ivanov, Alba Cervera-Lierta, Paolo Stornati +1

Continuous-variables (CV) quantum optics is a natural formalism for neural networks (NNs) due to its ability to reproduce the information processing of such trainable interconnecte…

hep-th2025

Gauge and diffeomorphism invariance from quantum information principles

Claudia Núñez, Miguel Pardina, Manuel Asorey +2

Entanglement is a hallmark of quantum theory, yet it alone does not capture the full extent of quantum complexity: some highly entangled states can still be classically simulated.…

cs.DC2025

Distributed Quantum Circuit Cutting for Hybrid Quantum-Classical High-Performance Computing

Mar Tejedor, Berta Casas, Javier Conejero +2

Most quantum computers today are constrained by hardware limitations, particularly the number of available qubits, causing significant challenges for executing large-scale quantum…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum Circuits for High-Dimensional Absolutely Maximally Entangled States

Berta Casas, Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć, Suhail Ahmad Rather +4

Absolutely maximally entangled (AME) states of multipartite quantum systems exhibit maximal entanglement across all possible bipartitions. These states lead to teleportation protoc…

hep-th2025★ 3 cited

Universality of entanglement in gluon dynamics

Claudia Núñez, Alba Cervera-Lierta, José Ignacio Latorre

Entanglement of fundamental degrees of freedom in particle physics is generated ab initio in scattering processes. In the case of a pure gauge theory, two gluons in a produ…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Simulation of the 1d XY model on a quantum computer

Marc Farreras, Alba Cervera-Lierta

The field of quantum computing has grown fast in recent years, both in theoretical advancements and the practical construction of quantum computers. These computers were initially…

quant-ph2023★ 30 cited

Multidimensional Fourier series with quantum circuits

Berta Casas, Alba Cervera-Lierta

Quantum machine learning is the field that aims to integrate machine learning with quantum computation. In recent years, the field has emerged as an active research area with the p…

cs.CY2022★ 383 cited

On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence

Mario Krenn, Robert Pollice, Si Yue Guo +9

Imagine an oracle that correctly predicts the outcome of every particle physics experiment, the products of every chemical reaction, or the function of every protein. Such an oracl…

quant-ph2022★ 6 cited

Modern applications of machine learning in quantum sciences

Anna Dawid, Julian Arnold, Borja Requena +26

In this book, we provide a comprehensive introduction to the most recent advances in the application of machine learning methods in quantum sciences. We cover the use of deep learn…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Summary: Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE) Pulse-level Quantum Control Workshop

Kaitlin N. Smith, Gokul Subramanian Ravi, Thomas Alexander +14

Quantum information processing holds great promise for pushing beyond the current frontiers in computing. Specifically, quantum computation promises to accelerate the solving of ce…

quant-ph2021★ 6 cited

Toward Reliability in the NISQ Era: Robust Interval Guarantee for Quantum Measurements on Approximate States

Maurice Weber, Abhinav Anand, Alba Cervera-Lierta +6

Near-term quantum computation holds potential across multiple application domains. However, imperfect preparation and evolution of states due to algorithmic and experimental shortc…

quant-ph2021★ 17 cited

Design of quantum optical experiments with logic artificial intelligence

Alba Cervera-Lierta, Mario Krenn, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Logic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a subfield of AI where variables can take two defined arguments, True or False, and are arranged in clauses that follow the rules of formal lo…

cs.LG2021★ 25 cited

Learning Interpretable Representations of Entanglement in Quantum Optics Experiments using Deep Generative Models

Daniel Flam-Shepherd, Tony Wu, Xuemei Gu +3

Quantum physics experiments produce interesting phenomena such as interference or entanglement, which are core properties of numerous future quantum technologies. The complex relat…

quant-ph2021★ 107 cited

Experimental high-dimensional Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement with superconducting transmon qutrits

Alba Cervera-Lierta, Mario Krenn, Alán Aspuru-Guzik +1

Multipartite entanglement is one of the core concepts in quantum information science with broad applications that span from condensed matter physics to quantum physics foundations…

quant-ph2021★ 1.8k cited

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) algorithms

Kishor Bharti, Alba Cervera-Lierta, Thi Ha Kyaw +11

A universal fault-tolerant quantum computer that can solve efficiently problems such as integer factorization and unstructured database search requires millions of qubits with low…

quant-ph2020★ 68 cited

Tequila: A platform for rapid development of quantum algorithms

Jakob S. Kottmann, Sumner Alperin-Lea, Teresa Tamayo-Mendoza +15

Variational quantum algorithms are currently the most promising class of algorithms for deployment on near-term quantum computers. In contrast to classical algorithms, there are al…

quant-ph2020★ 77 cited

The Meta-Variational Quantum Eigensolver (Meta-VQE): Learning energy profiles of parameterized Hamiltonians for quantum simulation

Alba Cervera-Lierta, Jakob S. Kottmann, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We present the meta-VQE, an algorithm capable to learn the ground state energy profile of a parametrized Hamiltonian. By training the meta-VQE with a few data points, it delivers a…

quant-ph2019★ 639 cited

Data re-uploading for a universal quantum classifier

Adrián Pérez-Salinas, Alba Cervera-Lierta, Elies Gil-Fuster +1

A single qubit provides sufficient computational capabilities to construct a universal quantum classifier when assisted with a classical subroutine. This fact may be surprising sin…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Maximal Entanglement: Applications in Quantum Information and Particle Physics

Alba Cervera-Lierta

In this PhD thesis, several aspects regarding maximal entanglement are analyzed. In the first chapter, Bell Inequalities are analyzed from an operational perspective as well as nov…

quant-ph2019★ 46 cited

Quantum circuits for maximally entangled states

Alba Cervera-Lierta, José Ignacio Latorre, Dardo Goyeneche

We design a series of quantum circuits that generate absolute maximally entangled (AME) states to benchmark a quantum computer. A relation between graph states and AME states can b…