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20192026
most citedWork statistics and symmetry breaking in an excited state quantum phase transition

23 citations · 68 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Quantum annealers as programmable thermal machines

Jakub Pawłowski, Tomasz Śmierzchalski, Fengping Jin +3

Programmable quantum annealers are used for optimization, probabilistic sampling, and simulation, but their performance is commonly reported without the energy exchanged during com…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum-inspired dynamical models on quantum and classical annealers

Philipp Hanussek, Jakub Pawłowski, Zakaria Mzaouali +1

We propose a practical, physics-inspired benchmarking suite to challenge both quantum and classical computers by mapping real-time quantum dynamics to a common optimization format.…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Simon's Period Finding on a Quantum Annealer

Reece Robertson, Emery Doucet, Zakaria Mzaouali +3

Dating to 1994, Simon's period-finding algorithm is among the earliest and most fragile of quantum algorithms. The algorithm's fragility arises from the requirement that, to solve…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

SpinGlassPEPS.jl: Tensor-network package for Ising-like optimization on quasi-two-dimensional graphs

Tomasz Śmierzchalski, Anna M. Dziubyna, Konrad Jałowiecki +4

This work introduces SpinGlassPEPSjl, a software package implemented in Julia, designed to find low-energy configurations of generalized Potts models, including Ising and QUBO p…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Navigating the phase diagram of quantum many-body systems in phase space

Khadija El Hawary, Mohamed Azzouz, Morad El Baz +3

We demonstrate the unique capabilities of the Wigner function, particularly in its positive and negative parts, for exploring the phase diagram of the spin$-(\frac{1}{2\!}-\!\frac{…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

Efficiency Optimization in Quantum Computing: Balancing Thermodynamics and Computational Performance

Tomasz Śmierzchalski, Zakaria Mzaouali, Sebastian Deffner +1

We investigate the computational efficiency and thermodynamic cost of the D-Wave quantum annealer under reverse-annealing with and without pausing. Our experimental results demonst…

quant-ph2022

Long Distance Entanglement and High-Dimensional Quantum Teleportation in The Fermi-Hubbard Model

Sanaa Abaach, Zakaria Mzaouali, Morad El Baz

The long distance entanglement in finite size open Fermi-Hubbard chains, together with the end-to-end quantum teleportation are investigated. We show the peculiarity of the ground…

quant-ph2022

Correlations and Work Statistics in Critical Quantum Systems

Zakaria Mzaouali

In this dissertation, we analyze equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium quantum phase transitions present in quantum spin- models, using a quantum information approach thr…

quant-ph2021★ 23 cited

Work statistics and symmetry breaking in an excited state quantum phase transition

Zakaria Mzaouali, Ricardo Puebla, John Goold +2

We examine how the presence of an excited state quantum phase transition manifests in the dynamics of a many-body system subject to a sudden quench. Focusing on the Lipkin-Meshkov-…

quant-ph2019★ 15 cited

Long range quantum coherence, quantum & classical correlations in Heisenberg XX chain

Zakaria Mzaouali, Morad El Baz

A comparative study of pairwise quantum coherence, quantum and classical correlations is addressed for non-nearest spin pairs of the 1D Heisenberg spin- XX chain. Foll…

quant-ph2019★ 7 cited

Discrete and generalized phase space techniques in critical quantum spin chains

Zakaria Mzaouali, Steve Campbell, Morad El Baz

We apply the Wigner function formalism from quantum optics via two approaches, Wootters' discrete Wigner function and the generalized Wigner function, to detect quantum phase trans…