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most citedQuantum Optimization of Maximum Independent Set using Rydberg Atom Arrays

456 citations · 1.9k across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantum Compiler Design for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

Chenghong Zhu, Jiahan Chen, Keming He +9

Scalable quantum computation is expected to rely on fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC), in which quantum error correction (QEC) suppresses physical errors sufficiently to su…

quant-ph2026

Sampling isometric tensor network states with monitored quantum circuits

Yuqing Rong, Huan-Hai Zhou, Guo-Yi Zhu +1

Projected entangled pair states (PEPS) provide an efficient variational ansatz for two-dimensional quantum phases, but computing observables remains challenging because PEPS contra…

eess.IV2026

Fast Trainable Multilinear Bases for Image Compression

Shiwen An, Zhongyi Ni, Huanhai Zhou +1

The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), and their block-wise variants underpin most deployed image and video codecs. Their effectiveness rests on…

quant-ph2026

Decoupling 2D translation-invariant topological CSS codes

Yifei Wang, Zhongyi Ni, Mingxin He +2

Two-dimensional translation-invariant topological CSS codes on qubits are known to be locally equivalent, after coarse-graining, to stacks of toric codes. However, existing constru…

quant-ph2026

Realified tensor networks: quantum circuit simulation on real-valued matrix accelerators

Yusheng Zhao, Xiwei Pan, Enji Xiong +2

Tensor-network contraction simulates quantum circuits, but modern matrix accelerators (NPUs, TPUs) expose only real GEMM pipelines, so the complex networks of quantum simulation mu…

quant-ph2026

Measurement-Free Toric-Code Memory in Array Globally Controlled Rydberg Array

Han Wang, Yusheng Zhao, Xiuhao Deng +1

The central prerequisite of any fault-tolerant quantum architecture is a quantum memory: a block of encoded physical qubits whose logical state is actively preserved against noise…

cs.AI2026

Problem Reductions at Scale: Agentic Integration of Computationally Hard Problems

Xi-Wei Pan, Shi-Wen An, Jin-Guo Liu

Solving an NP-hard optimization problem often requires reformulating it for a specific solver -- quantum hardware, a commercial optimizer, or a domain heuristic. A tool for polynom…

quant-ph2025

Ergotropy of quantum many-body scars

Zhaohui Zhi, Qingyun Qian, Jin-Guo Liu +1

Quantum many-body scars break ergodicity and evade thermalization, resulting in sub-volume law entanglement entropy even with high energy density. While their quantum correlations…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Probabilistic Inference in the Era of Tensor Networks and Differential Programming

Martin Roa-Villescas, Xuanzhao Gao, Sander Stuijk +2

Probabilistic inference is a fundamental task in modern machine learning. Recent advances in tensor network (TN) contraction algorithms have enabled the development of better exact…

quant-ph2023★ 9 cited

Quantum speedup for combinatorial optimization with flat energy landscapes

Madelyn Cain, Sambuddha Chattopadhyay, Jin-Guo Liu +3

Designing quantum algorithms with a speedup over their classical analogs is a central challenge in quantum information science. Motivated by recent experimental observations of a s…

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…

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…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 51 cited

Tropical Tensor Network for Ground States of Spin Glasses

Jin-Guo Liu, Lei Wang, Pan Zhang

We present a unified exact tensor network approach to compute the ground state energy, identify the optimal configuration, and count the number of solutions for spin glasses. The m…

quant-ph2020★ 43 cited

Probabilistic Nonunitary Gate in Imaginary Time Evolution

Tong Liu, Jin-Guo Liu, Heng Fan

Simulation of quantum matters is a significant application of quantum computers. In contrast to the unitary operation which can be realized naturally on a quantum computer, the imp…

cs.PL2020★ 1 cited

Differentiate Everything with a Reversible Embeded Domain-Specific Language

Jin-Guo Liu, Taine Zhao

Reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) suffers from the issue of having too much space overhead to trace back intermediate computational states for back-propagation. The tradi…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 34 cited

Automatic differentiation of dominant eigensolver and its applications in quantum physics

Hao Xie, Jin-Guo Liu, Lei Wang

We investigate the automatic differentiation of dominant eigensolver where only a small proportion of eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors are obtained. Backpropagation throu…

quant-ph2019★ 6 cited

Solving Quantum Statistical Mechanics with Variational Autoregressive Networks and Quantum Circuits

Jin-Guo Liu, Liang Mao, Pan Zhang +1

We extend the ability of unitary quantum circuits by interfacing it with classical autoregressive neural networks. The combined model parametrizes a variational density matrix as a…

quant-ph2019★ 131 cited

Yao.jl: Extensible, Efficient Framework for Quantum Algorithm Design

Xiu-Zhe Luo, Jin-Guo Liu, Pan Zhang +1

We introduce Yao, an extensible, efficient open-source framework for quantum algorithm design. Yao features generic and differentiable programming of quantum circuits. It achieves…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 233 cited

Differentiable Programming Tensor Networks

Hai-Jun Liao, Jin-Guo Liu, Lei Wang +1

Differentiable programming is a fresh programming paradigm which composes parameterized algorithmic components and trains them using automatic differentiation (AD). The concept eme…

quant-ph2019★ 153 cited

Variational Quantum Eigensolver with Fewer Qubits

Jin-Guo Liu, Yi-Hong Zhang, Yuan Wan +1

We propose a qubit efficient scheme to study ground state properties of quantum many-body systems on near-term noisy intermediate scale quantum computers. One can obtain a tensor n…

quant-ph2018★ 92 cited

Learning and Inference on Generative Adversarial Quantum Circuits

Jinfeng Zeng, Yufeng Wu, Jin-Guo Liu +2

Quantum mechanics is inherently probabilistic in light of Born's rule. Using quantum circuits as probabilistic generative models for classical data exploits their superior expressi…

quant-ph2018★ 285 cited

Differentiable Learning of Quantum Circuit Born Machine

Jin-Guo Liu, Lei Wang

Quantum circuit Born machines are generative models which represent the probability distribution of classical dataset as quantum pure states. Computational complexity consideration…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 9 cited

Electronic orders near the type-II van Hove singularity in BC

Yao Wang, Jin-Guo Liu, Wan-Sheng Wang +1

Using the functional renormalization group, we investigate the electron instability in the single-sheet BC when the electron filling is near a type-II van Hove singularity. For…