activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

quant-ph2026

Benchmarking Hybrid Quantum-Classical Algorithms for Power Grid Optimization Problems

Igor Gaidai, Rick Mukherjee

Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow Unit Commitment (AC-OPF-UC) is a difficult mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problem that combines binary generator commitment decisions w…

quant-ph2026

A matching decomposition algorithm for simulating quantum walk Hamiltonians

Mostafa Atallah, Alvin Gonzales, Daniel Dilley +3

In this work, we present a new algorithm for generating quantum circuits that efficiently implement continuous time quantum walks on arbitrary simple sparse graphs. The algorithm,…

quant-ph2025

Efficient Sparse State Preparation via Quantum Walks

Alvin Gonzales, Rebekah Herrman, Colin Campbell +4

Continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on dynamic graphs, referred to as dynamic CTQWs, are a recently introduced universal model of computation that offers a new paradigm in which…

quant-ph2025

Decomposition of Sparse Amplitude Permutation Gates with Application to Preparation of Sparse Clustered Quantum States

Igor Gaidai, Rebekah Herrman

In this work we consider a novel heuristic decomposition algorithm for -qubit gates that implement specified amplitude permutations on sparse states with non-zero amplitudes…

quant-ph2024

Quantum approximate optimization algorithm with random and subgraph phase operators

Anthony Wilkie, Igor Gaidai, James Ostrowski +1

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a promising quantum algorithm that can be used to approximately solve combinatorial optimization problems. The usual QAOA a…