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20162026
most citedPennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

233 citations · 665 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

quant-ph2026

Plaquette: A hardware-aware design platform for fault-tolerant quantum computers

Raul Conchello Vendrell, Carlos Díaz López, Ish Dhand +12

Hardware teams building fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQCs) must decide which imperfections to suppress, and that decision requires the logical performance of the architecture…

cond-mat.soft2025

Exploring the energy landscape of the Thomson problem: local minima and stationary states

Paolo Amore, Victor Figueroa, Enrique Diaz +2

We conducted a comprehensive numerical investigation of the energy landscape of the Thomson problem for systems up to . Our results show the number of distinct configuration…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Hybrid quantum programming with PennyLane Lightning on HPC platforms

Ali Asadi, Amintor Dusko, Chae-Yeun Park +5

We introduce PennyLane's Lightning suite, a collection of high-performance state-vector simulators targeting CPU, GPU, and HPC-native architectures and workloads. Quantum applicati…

quant-ph2021★ 49 cited

Jet: Fast quantum circuit simulations with parallel task-based tensor-network contraction

Trevor Vincent, Lee J. O'Riordan, Mikhail Andrenkov +4

We introduce a new open-source software library Jet, which uses task-based parallelism to obtain speed-ups in classical tensor-network simulations of quantum circuits. These speed-…

quant-ph2021★ 113 cited

Quantum Computational Advantage via High-Dimensional Gaussian Boson Sampling

Abhinav Deshpande, Arthur Mehta, Trevor Vincent +10

Photonics is a promising platform for demonstrating a quantum computational advantage (QCA) by outperforming the most powerful classical supercomputers on a well-defined computatio…

quant-ph2020

Quadratic speedup for simulating Gaussian boson sampling

Nicolás Quesada, Rachel S. Chadwick, Bryn A. Bell +4

We introduce an algorithm for the classical simulation of Gaussian boson sampling that is quadratically faster than previously known methods. The complexity of the algorithm is exp…

gr-qc2019★ 57 cited

Unequal Mass Binary Neutron Star Simulations with Neutrino Transport: Ejecta and Neutrino Emission

Trevor Vincent, Francois Foucart, Matthew D. Duez +4

We present twelve new simulations of unequal mass neutron star mergers. The simulations were preformed with the SpEC code, and utilize nuclear-theory based equations of state and a…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 11 cited

A hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin solver for elliptic equations in numerical relativity

Trevor Vincent, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Nils L. Fischer

A considerable amount of attention has been given to discontinuous Galerkin methods for hyperbolic problems in numerical relativity, showing potential advantages of the methods in…

quant-ph2018★ 233 cited

PennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

Ville Bergholm, Josh Izaac, Maria Schuld +65

PennyLane is a Python 3 software framework for differentiable programming of quantum computers. The library provides a unified architecture for near-term quantum computing devices,…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 81 cited

Distinguishing the nature of comparable-mass neutron star binary systems with multimessenger observations: GW170817 case study

Tanja Hinderer, Samaya Nissanke, Francois Foucart +10

The discovery of GW170817 with gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation is prompting new questions in strong-gravity astrophysics. Importantly, it remains unkno…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 116 cited

SpECTRE: A Task-based Discontinuous Galerkin Code for Relativistic Astrophysics

Lawrence E. Kidder, Scott E. Field, Francois Foucart +11

We introduce a new relativistic astrophysics code, SpECTRE, that combines a discontinuous Galerkin method with a task-based parallelism model. SpECTRE's goal is to achieve more acc…