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most citedAdiabatic Spectroscopy and a Variational Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm

50 citations · 83 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

quant-ph2025

Distributed Quantum Information Processing: A Review of Recent Progress

Johannes Knörzer, Xiaoyu Liu, Benjamin F. Schiffer +1

Distributed quantum information processing seeks to overcome the scalability limitations of monolithic quantum devices by interconnecting multiple quantum processing nodes via clas…

quant-ph2025

Phase-Sensitive Measurements on a Fermi-Hubbard Quantum Processor

Alberto R. Cavallar, Luis Escalera-Moreno, Titus Franz +4

Fermionic quantum processors are a promising platform for quantum simulation of correlated fermionic matter. In this work, we study a hardware-efficient protocol for measuring comp…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Hardware-efficient quantum phase estimation via local control

Benjamin F. Schiffer, Dominik S. Wild, Nishad Maskara +2

Quantum phase estimation plays a central role in quantum simulation as it enables the study of spectral properties of many-body quantum systems. Most variants of the phase estimati…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Preparing low-variance states using a distributed quantum algorithm

Xiaoyu Liu, Benjamin F. Schiffer, Jordi Tura

Quantum computers are a highly promising tool for efficiently simulating quantum many-body systems. The preparation of their eigenstates is of particular interest and can be addres…

quant-ph2024

Quantum quench dynamics as a shortcut to adiabaticity

Alexander Lukin, Benjamin F. Schiffer, Boris Braverman +9

The ability to efficiently prepare ground states of quantum Hamiltonians via adiabatic protocols is typically limited by the smallest energy gap encountered during the quantum evol…

quant-ph2024

The quantum adiabatic algorithm suppresses the proliferation of errors

Benjamin F. Schiffer, Adrian Franco Rubio, Rahul Trivedi +1

The propagation of errors severely compromises the reliability of quantum computations. The quantum adiabatic algorithm is a physically motivated method to prepare ground states of…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Virtual mitigation of coherent non-adiabatic transitions by echo verification

Benjamin F. Schiffer, Dyon van Vreumingen, Jordi Tura +1

Transitions out of the ground space limit the performance of quantum adiabatic algorithms, while hardware imperfections impose stringent limitations on the circuit depth. We propos…

quant-ph2023★ 20 cited

Circumventing superexponential runtimes for hard instances of quantum adiabatic optimization

Benjamin F. Schiffer, Dominik S. Wild, Nishad Maskara +3

Classical optimization problems can be solved by adiabatically preparing the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian that encodes the problem. The performance of this approach is det…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Quantum eigenstate broadcasting assisted by a coherent link

Benjamin F. Schiffer, Jordi Tura

Preparing the ground state of a local Hamiltonian is a crucial problem in understanding quantum many-body systems, with applications in a variety of physics fields and connections…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 1 cited

Quantum computers as an amplifier for existential risk

Benjamin F. Schiffer

Quantum computing is expected to have a profound impact on society. In this work we discuss the potential consequences on existential risk for humanity. Even with the timeline for…

quant-ph2021★ 50 cited

Adiabatic Spectroscopy and a Variational Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm

Benjamin F. Schiffer, Jordi Tura, J. Ignacio Cirac

Preparing the ground state of a Hamiltonian is a problem of great significance in physics with deep implications in the field of combinatorial optimization. The adiabatic algorithm…