3 papers
quant-ph2025
IF-QAOA: A Penalty-Free Approach to Accelerating Constrained Quantum Optimization
David Bucher, Jonas Stein, Sebastian Feld +1
Traditional methods for handling (inequality) constraints in the Quantum Approximate Optimization Ansatz (QAOA) typically rely on penalty terms and slack variables, which increase…
quant-ph2024
Reducing QUBO Density by Factoring Out Semi-Symmetries
Jonas NüÃlein, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein +6
Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and Quantum Annealing are prominent approaches for solving combinatorial optimization problems, such as those formulated as Quadra…
quant-ph2024
Reducing QAOA Circuit Depth by Factoring out Semi-Symmetries
Jonas NüÃlein, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein +4
QAOA is a quantum algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems. It is capable of searching for the minimizing solution vector of a QUBO problem . The number…