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quant-ph2026

From Quantum Tunneling to Classical Optimization through Instantons

Jiayu Shen, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +5

We use an instanton-based analysis to show that Path Integral Stochastic Gradient Descent (PISGD), a classical optimization algorithm instantiated from path integral Monte Carlo (P…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Simulation on Riemannian Manifolds

Dylan Herman, Jacob Watkins, Guneykan Ozgul +4

We investigate algorithms for the quantum simulation of the Schrödinger equation on a Riemannian manifold, where the kinetic operator is defined by the Laplace--Beltrami operator c…

quant-ph2026

Quantum algorithms for orthogonal polynomial transforms

Anupam Prakash, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Dylan Herman +1

A quantum orthogonal polynomial transform (QOPT) is an algorithmic primitive that maps a superposition of standard basis states coherently to a basis of norm…

quant-ph2026

Super-Quadratic Quantum Speedups for Combinatorial Optimization via Tilted Walks

Guneykan Ozgul, Shouvanik Chakrabarti

We introduce quantum tilted walks, a quantum algorithmic framework for solving exact combinatorial optimization problems. The framework applies an average of powers of a tilted Ham…

quant-ph2026

Cycle Codes and Decoded Quantum Interferometry

Anuj Apte, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Andi Gu +6

Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI) reduces optimization problems with two-variable constraints to decoding cycle codes. For one such problem, namely MaxCut, prior work showed tha…

quant-ph2026

Near-Optimal Quantum Lower Bounds for Convex Optimization via Fourier Rank

Brandon Augustino, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Enrico Fontana +4

We establish a linear quantum query lower bound for high-accuracy convex optimization over an explicit family of -dimensional ellipsoids. We focus on linear optimization with an…

quant-ph2026

Faster Algorithms for Multimarginal Optimal Transport

Brandon Augustino, Yue Sun, Atithi Acharya +4

We study constructive discrete multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) among distributions on points, where the cost tensor has entries. For additive accuracy $\v…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Speedups for Group Relaxations of Integer Linear Programs

Brandon Augustino, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +5

Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) are a flexible and ubiquitous model for discrete optimization problems. Solving ILPs is \textsf{NP-Hard} yet of great practical importance. Super-qua…

quant-ph2026

Digital signatures with classical shadows on near-term quantum computers

Pradeep Niroula, Minzhao Liu, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan +15

Quantum mechanics provides cryptographic primitives whose security is grounded in hardness assumptions independent of those underlying classical cryptography. However, existing pro…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Speedups for Derivative Pricing Beyond Black-Scholes

Dylan Herman, Yue Sun, Jin-Peng Liu +5

This paper explores advancements in quantum algorithms for derivative pricing of exotics, a computational pipeline of fundamental importance in quantitative finance. For such cases…

quant-ph2025

Realization of a Quantum Streaming Algorithm on Long-lived Trapped-ion Qubits

Pradeep Niroula, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Steven Kordonowy +30

Large classical datasets are often processed in the streaming model, with data arriving one item at a time. In this model, quantum algorithms have been shown to offer an unconditio…

quant-ph2025

Certified randomness amplification by dynamically probing remote random quantum states

Minzhao Liu, Pradeep Niroula, Matthew DeCross +49

Cryptography depends on truly unpredictable numbers, but physical sources emit biased or correlated bits. Quantum mechanics enables the amplification of imperfect randomness into n…

quant-ph2025

End-to-end quantum algorithms for tensor problems

Enrico Fontana, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Junhyung Lyle Kim +4

We present a comprehensive end-to-end quantum algorithm for tensor problems, including tensor PCA and planted kXOR, that achieves potential superquadratic quantum speedups over cla…

quant-ph2025

Mechanisms for Quantum Advantage in Global Optimization of Nonconvex Functions

Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul, Anuj Apte +4

We present new theoretical mechanisms for quantum speedup in the global optimization of nonconvex functions, expanding the scope of quantum advantage beyond traditional tunneling-b…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Threshold for Fault-tolerant Quantum Advantage with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Zichang He, Zhiwei Zhang +9

Optimization is often cited as a promising application of quantum computers. However, the low degree of provable quantum speedups has led prior rigorous end-to-end resource analyse…

quant-ph2025★ 33 cited

Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor

Minzhao Liu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Pradeep Niroula +29

While quantum computers have the potential to perform a wide range of practically important tasks beyond the capabilities of classical computers, realizing this potential remains a…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Applications of Certified Randomness

Omar Amer, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Kaushik Chakraborty +8

Certified randomness can be generated with untrusted remote quantum computers using multiple known protocols, one of which has been recently realized experimentally. Unlike the ran…

quant-ph2025

On Speedups for Convex Optimization via Quantum Dynamics

Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Jacob Watkins +4

We explore the potential for quantum speedups in convex optimization using discrete simulations of the Quantum Hamiltonian Descent (QHD) framework, as proposed by Leng et al., and…

quant-ph2025

Fast Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods

Brandon Augustino, Dylan Herman, Enrico Fontana +4

We study quantum algorithms based on quantum (sub)gradient estimation using noisy function evaluation oracles, and demonstrate the first dimension-independent query complexities (u…

quant-ph2025

qReduMIS: A Quantum-Informed Reduction Algorithm for the Maximum Independent Set Problem

Martin J. A. Schuetz, Romina Yalovetzky, Ruben S. Andrist +8

We propose and implement a quantum-informed reduction algorithm for the maximum independent set problem that integrates classical kernelization techniques with information extracte…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Compilation Toolkit for Rydberg Atom Arrays with Implications for Problem Hardness and Quantum Speedups

Martin J. A. Schuetz, Ruben S. Andrist, Grant Salton +7

We propose and implement a comprehensive quantum compilation toolkit for solving the maximum independent set (MIS) problem on quantum hardware based on Rydberg atom arrays. Our end…

quant-ph2024

Generalized Short Path Algorithms: Towards Super-Quadratic Speedup over Markov Chain Search for Combinatorial Optimization

Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +6

We analyze generalizations of quantum algorithms based on the short path framework first proposed by Hastings~[\textit{Quantum} 2, 78 (2018)], which has been extended and shown by…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Prospects of Privacy Advantage in Quantum Machine Learning

Jamie Heredge, Niraj Kumar, Dylan Herman +5

Ensuring data privacy in machine learning models is critical, particularly in distributed settings where model gradients are typically shared among multiple parties to allow collab…

quant-ph2024

Quantum option pricing via the Karhunen-Loève expansion

Anupam Prakash, Yue Sun, Shouvanik Chakrabarti +8

We consider the problem of pricing discretely monitored Asian options over monitoring points where the underlying asset is modeled by a geometric Brownian motion. We provide tw…