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most citedQuantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: Performance, Mechanism, and Implementation on Near-Term Devices

701 citations · 2.8k across the 42 of their papers we have counts for

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44 papers

quant-ph2026

PPVM: A Circuit Simulation Framework for Digital Twins of Quantum Processors

Xiu-Zhe Luo, David Plankensteiner, Kai-Hsin Wu +12

Quantum computers are approaching the early fault-tolerant regime. Verifying the next generation of quantum hardware requires joint emulation of the quantum processor, hardware noi…

quant-ph2026

FT-Weave: Real-Time Compilation Framework for Reconfigurable Fault-Tolerant Quantum Architectures

Wan-Hsuan Lin, Milan Kornjača, Chen Zhao +2

Fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) is essential for large-scale quantum computation, but realizing useful application throughput requires coordinating resource preparation, as…

quant-ph2026

Surface code logical operations on a superconducting quantum processor

Weiping Lin, Shaojun Guo, Yuwei Ma +144

Fault-tolerant quantum computation requires logical operations that manipulate encoded information while preserving quantum error-correction protection. In planar surface-code arch…

quant-ph2026

Learning and Generating Mixed States Prepared by Shallow Channel Circuits

Fangjun Hu, Christian Kokail, Milan Kornjača +5

Learning quantum states from measurement data is a central problem in quantum information and computational complexity. In this work, we study the problem of learning to generate m…

quant-ph2025

Transversal architecture for megaquop-scale quantum simulation with neutral atoms

Refaat Ismail, I-Chi Chen, Chen Zhao +6

Quantum computing experiments have made remarkable progress in demonstrating key components of quantum error correction, a prerequisite for scalable quantum computation. While we a…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Quantum criticality and nonequilibrium dynamics on a Lieb lattice of Rydberg atoms

Mark R. Hirsbrunner, Milan Kornjača, Rhine Samajdar +9

Neutral-atom quantum simulators offer a promising approach to the exploration of strongly interacting many-body systems, with applications spanning condensed matter, statistical me…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Non-native Quantum Generative Optimization with Adversarial Autoencoders

Blake A. Wilson, Jonathan Wurtz, Vahagn Mkhitaryan +5

Large-scale optimization problems are prevalent in several fields, including engineering, finance, and logistics. However, most optimization problems cannot be efficiently encoded…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Large-scale quantum reservoir learning with an analog quantum computer

Milan Kornjača, Hong-Ye Hu, Chen Zhao +50

Quantum machine learning has gained considerable attention as quantum technology advances, presenting a promising approach for efficiently learning complex data patterns. Despite t…

quant-ph2024★ 29 cited

Low-Overhead Transversal Fault Tolerance for Universal Quantum Computation

Hengyun Zhou, Chen Zhao, Madelyn Cain +7

Fast, reliable logical operations are essential for realizing useful quantum computers. By redundantly encoding logical qubits into many physical qubits and using syndrome measurem…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Long-lived oscillations of metastable states in neutral atom systems

Siva Darbha, Milan Kornjača, Fangli Liu +7

Metastable states arise in a range of quantum systems and can be observed in various dynamical scenarios, including decay, bubble nucleation, and long-lived oscillations. The pheno…

quant-ph2024★ 13 cited

False vacuum decay and nucleation dynamics in neutral atom systems

Siva Darbha, Milan Kornjača, Fangli Liu +7

Metastable states of quantum many-body systems with confinement offer a means to simulate false vacuum phenomenology, including non-equilibrium dynamical processes like decay by nu…

quant-ph2024

Solving non-native combinatorial optimization problems using hybrid quantum-classical algorithms

Jonathan Wurtz, Stefan Sack, Sheng-Tao Wang

Combinatorial optimization is a challenging problem applicable in a wide range of fields from logistics to finance. Recently, quantum computing has been used to attempt to solve th…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Probing quantum floating phases in Rydberg atom arrays

Jin Zhang, Sergio H. Cantú, Fangli Liu +10

The floating phase, a critical incommensurate phase, has been theoretically predicted as a potential intermediate phase between crystalline ordered and disordered phases. In this s…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Digital-analog quantum learning on Rydberg atom arrays

Jonathan Z. Lu, Lucy Jiao, Kristina Wolinski +6

We propose hybrid digital-analog learning algorithms on Rydberg atom arrays, combining the potentially practical utility and near-term realizability of quantum learning with the ra…

hep-lat2023

Scalar QED with Rydberg atoms

Yannick Meurice, James Corona, Sergio Cantu +6

We review recent suggestions to quantum simulate scalar electrodynamics (the lattice Abelian Higgs model) in dimensions with rectangular arrays of Rydberg atoms. We show that…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Quantum dynamics of a fully-blockaded Rydberg atom ensemble

Dominik S. Wild, Sabina Drăgoi, Corbin McElhanney +2

Classical simulation of quantum systems plays an important role in the study of many-body phenomena and in the benchmarking and verification of quantum technologies. Exact simulati…

quant-ph2023★ 28 cited

Aquila: QuEra's 256-qubit neutral-atom quantum computer

Jonathan Wurtz, Alexei Bylinskii, Boris Braverman +10

The neutral-atom quantum computer "Aquila" is QuEra's latest device available through the Braket cloud service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Aquila is a "field-programmable qubit a…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 21 cited

Trimer quantum spin liquid in a honeycomb array of Rydberg atoms

Milan Kornjača, Rhine Samajdar, Tommaso Macrì +3

Quantum spin liquids are elusive but paradigmatic examples of strongly correlated quantum states that are characterized by long-range quantum entanglement. Recently, the direct sig…

quant-ph2022★ 128 cited

Quantum optimization with arbitrary connectivity using Rydberg atom arrays

Minh-Thi Nguyen, Jin-Guo Liu, Jonathan Wurtz +3

Programmable quantum systems based on Rydberg atom arrays have recently been used for hardware-efficient tests of quantum optimization algorithms [Ebadi et al., Science, 376, 1209…

quant-ph2022★ 12 cited

Industry applications of neutral-atom quantum computing solving independent set problems

Jonathan Wurtz, Pedro L. S. Lopes, Christoph Gorgulla +3

Architectures for quantum computing based on neutral atoms have risen to prominence as candidates for both near and long-term applications. These devices are particularly well suit…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 34 cited

Computing solution space properties of combinatorial optimization problems via generic tensor networks

Jin-Guo Liu, Xun Gao, Madelyn Cain +2

We introduce a unified framework to compute the solution space properties of a broad class of combinatorial optimization problems. These properties include finding one of the optim…

quant-ph2022★ 456 cited

Quantum Optimization of Maximum Independent Set using Rydberg Atom Arrays

Sepehr Ebadi, Alexander Keesling, Madelyn Cain +21

Realizing quantum speedup for practically relevant, computationally hard problems is a central challenge in quantum information science. Using Rydberg atom arrays with up to 289 qu…

quant-ph2021★ 5 cited

Hardware-Efficient, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Rydberg Atoms

Iris Cong, Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling +3

Neutral atom arrays have recently emerged as a promising platform for quantum information processing. One important remaining roadblock for the large-scale application of these sys…

quant-ph2021★ 84 cited

Enhancing Generative Models via Quantum Correlations

Xun Gao, Eric R. Anschuetz, Sheng-Tao Wang +2

Generative modeling using samples drawn from the probability distribution constitutes a powerful approach for unsupervised machine learning. Quantum mechanical systems can produce…