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most citedTraining variational quantum algorithms is NP-hard

428 citations · 1.9k across the 46 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

quant-ph2026

Fast Hamiltonian engineering from cut polytope geometry

Thomas Joachim Friese, Özgün Kum, Aram W. Harrow +1

Hamiltonian engineering (HE) simulates quantum dynamics under a target Hamiltonian using a native entangling system Hamiltonian and restricted control, with applications from quant…

quant-ph2026

Fermionic Hamiltonian engineering with local control

Özgün Kum, Matthias Zipper, Ludwig Mathey +1

Quantum simulators enable the exploration of complex quantum phenomena in condensed-matter systems by reproducing their dynamics on controllable quantum devices. However, experimen…

quant-ph2026

Scalable Determination of Penalization Weights for Constrained Optimizations on Approximate Solvers

Edoardo Alessandroni, Sergi Ramos-Calderer, Michel Krispin +7

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) provides problem formulations for various computational problems that can be solved with dedicated QUBO solvers, based on classic…

quant-ph2025

A comprehensive benchmark of an Ising machine on the Max-Cut problem

Salwa Shaglel, Markus Kirsch, Marten Winkler +4

QUBO formulations of combinatorial optimization problems allow for solving them using various quantum heuristics. While large-scale quantum computations are currently still out of…

quant-ph2025

Compensating connectivity restrictions in quantum annealers via splitting and linearization techniques

Marcel Seelbach Benkner, Zorah Lähner, Vladislav Golyanik +2

Current quantum annealing experiments often suffer from restrictions in connectivity in the sense that only certain qubits can be coupled to each other. The most common strategy to…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Reducing the sampling complexity of energy estimation in quantum many-body systems using empirical variance information

Alexander Gresch, Uğur Tepe, Martin Kliesch

We consider the problem of estimating the energy of a quantum state preparation for a given Hamiltonian in Pauli decomposition. For various quantum algorithms, in particular in the…

quant-ph2024

Sound certification of memory-bounded quantum computers

Jan Nöller, Nikolai Miklin, Martin Kliesch +1

The rapid advancement of quantum hardware calls for the development of reliable methods to certify its correct functioning. However, existing certification tests often fall short:…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

On Computational Complexity of Unitary and State Design Properties

Yoshifumi Nakata, Yuki Takeuchi, Martin Kliesch +1

We investigate unitary and state -designs from a computational complexity perspective. First, we address the problems of computing frame potentials that characterize (approximat…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Shot-noise reduction for lattice Hamiltonians

Timo Eckstein, Refik Mansuroglu, Stefan Wolf +4

Efficiently estimating energy expectation values of quantum lattice systems on quantum computers is a crucial subroutine for various quantum algorithms, which can lead to significa…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

General, efficient, and robust Hamiltonian engineering

Pascal Baßler, Markus Heinrich, Martin Kliesch

Implementing the time evolution under a desired target Hamiltonian is critical for various applications in quantum science. Due to the exponential increase in the number of paramet…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Bosonic randomized benchmarking with passive transformations

Mirko Arienzo, Dmitry Grinko, Martin Kliesch +1

Randomized benchmarking (RB) is the most commonly employed protocol for the characterization of unitary operations in quantum circuits due to its reasonable experimental requiremen…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Classical certification of quantum gates under the dimension assumption

Jan Nöller, Nikolai Miklin, Martin Kliesch +1

The rapid advancement of quantum hardware necessitates the development of reliable methods to certify its correct functioning. However, existing certification tests fall short, as…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

Stability of classical shadows under gate-dependent noise

Raphael Brieger, Markus Heinrich, Ingo Roth +1

Expectation values of observables are routinely estimated using so-called classical shadows$\unicode{x2014}$the outcomes of randomized bases measurements on a repeatedly prepared q…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Time-optimal multi-qubit gates: Complexity, efficient heuristic and gate-time bounds

Pascal Baßler, Markus Heinrich, Martin Kliesch

Multi-qubit entangling interactions arise naturally in several quantum computing platforms and promise advantages over traditional two-qubit gates. In particular, a fixed multi-qub…

quant-ph2023★ 15 cited

Guaranteed efficient energy estimation of quantum many-body Hamiltonians using ShadowGrouping

Alexander Gresch, Martin Kliesch

Estimation of the energy of quantum many-body systems is a paradigmatic task in various research fields. In particular, efficient energy estimation may be crucial in achieving a qu…

quant-ph2022★ 8 cited

Randomized benchmarking with random quantum circuits

Markus Heinrich, Martin Kliesch, Ingo Roth

In its many variants, randomized benchmarking (RB) is a broadly used technique for assessing the quality of gate implementations on quantum computers. A detailed theoretical unders…

quant-ph2022

Optimizing the depth of variational quantum algorithms is strongly QCMA-hard to approximate

Lennart Bittel, Sevag Gharibian, Martin Kliesch

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs), such as the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) of [Farhi, Goldstone, Gutmann, 2014], have seen intense study towards near-term…

quant-ph2022★ 25 cited

Closed-form analytic expressions for shadow estimation with brickwork circuits

Mirko Arienzo, Markus Heinrich, Ingo Roth +1

Properties of quantum systems can be estimated using classical shadows, which implement measurements based on random ensembles of unitaries. Originally derived for global Clifford…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Fast gradient estimation for variational quantum algorithms

Lennart Bittel, Jens Watty, Martin Kliesch

Many optimization methods for training variational quantum algorithms are based on estimating gradients of the cost function. Due to the statistical nature of quantum measurements,…

quant-ph2022★ 16 cited

Learning logical Pauli noise in quantum error correction

Thomas Wagner, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß +1

The characterization of quantum devices is crucial for their practical implementation but can be costly in experimental effort and classical postprocessing. Therefore, it is desira…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

Synthesis of and compilation with time-optimal multi-qubit gates

Pascal Baßler, Matthias Zipper, Christopher Cedzich +4

We develop a method to synthesize a class of entangling multi-qubit gates for a quantum computing platform with fixed Ising-type interaction with all-to-all connectivity. The only…

quant-ph2022★ 8 cited

Distance-based resource quantification for sets of quantum measurements

Lucas Tendick, Martin Kliesch, Hermann Kampermann +1

The advantage that quantum systems provide for certain quantum information processing tasks over their classical counterparts can be quantified within the general framework of reso…

cond-mat.dis-nn2022★ 2 cited

Scalable approach to many-body localization via quantum data

Alexander Gresch, Lennart Bittel, Martin Kliesch

We are interested in how quantum data can allow for practical solutions to otherwise difficult computational problems. A notoriously difficult phenomenon from quantum many-body phy…

quant-ph2021★ 26 cited

Compressive gate set tomography

Raphael Brieger, Ingo Roth, Martin Kliesch

Flexible characterization techniques that identify and quantify experimental imperfections under realistic assumptions are crucial for the development of quantum computers. Gate se…