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Protecting Expressive Circuits with a Quantum Error Detection Code
Chris N. Self, Marcello Benedetti, David Amaro
A successful quantum error correction protocol would allow quantum computers to run algorithms without suffering from the effects of noise. However, fully fault-tolerant quantum er…
Exploring the neighborhood of 1-layer QAOA with Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial circuits
Sebastian Leontica, David Amaro
We embed 1-layer QAOA circuits into the larger class of parameterized Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial circuits to produce an improved variational quantum algorithm for solving com…
A case study of variational quantum algorithms for a job shop scheduling problem
David Amaro, Matthias Rosenkranz, Nathan Fitzpatrick +2
Combinatorial optimization models a vast range of industrial processes aiming at improving their efficiency. In general, solving this type of problem exactly is computationally int…
Filtering variational quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization
David Amaro, Carlo Modica, Matthias Rosenkranz +3
Current gate-based quantum computers have the potential to provide a computational advantage if algorithms use quantum hardware efficiently. To make combinatorial optimization more…
Design and Experimental Performance of Local Entanglement Witness Operators
David Amaro, Markus Müller
Entanglement is a central concept in quantum information and a key resource for many quantum protocols. In this work we propose and analyze a class of entanglement witnesses that d…
Analytical percolation theory for topological color codes under qubit loss
David Amaro, Jemma Bennett, Davide Vodola +1
Quantum information theory has shown strong connections with classical statistical physics. For example, quantum error correcting codes like the surface and the color code present…
Scalable characterization of localizable entanglement in noisy topological quantum codes
David Amaro, Markus Müller, Amit Kumar Pal
Topological quantum error correcting codes have emerged as leading candidates towards the goal of achieving large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers. However, quantifying entan…
Twins Percolation for Qubit Losses in Topological Color Codes
D. Vodola, D. Amaro, M. A. Martin-Delgado +1
We establish and explore a new connection between quantum information theory and classical statistical mechanics by studying the problem of qubit losses in 2D topological color cod…
Estimating localizable entanglement from witnesses
David Amaro, Markus Müller, Amit Kumar Pal
Computing localizable entanglement for noisy many-particle quantum states is difficult due to the optimization over all possible sets of local projection measurements. Therefore, i…