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most citedThe MQT Handbook: A Summary of Design Automation Tools and Software for Quantum Computing

51 citations · 132 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

quant-ph2026

Methods for Automated Equivalence Checking of Quantum Error-Correction Codes

Maxie Bichmann, Ludwig Schmid, Robert Wille

Quantum error-correction code and circuit construction is an active field of research, motivating automated methods for identifying equivalent designs. We develop and evaluate auto…

quant-ph2026

Fast Unitary Preparation of Surface-Code Logical States on Neutral-Atom Hardware

Ludwig Schmid, Robert Wille

Preparing logical states is a constantly recurring primitive at the start of any surface-code-based quantum computation. The standard measurement-based protocol is expensive on neu…

quant-ph2026

QECirc: A Community-Driven, FAIR Library of Quantum Error Correction Circuits

Ludwig Schmid, Tom Peham, Robert Wille

Quantum error correction (QEC) underpins fault-tolerant quantum computing, but the circuits that realize QEC codes (encoders, logical state-preparation and gate routines, and syndr…

quant-ph2026

Enabling Neutral Atom Integration: Redesigning Device Models for Universal Quantum Ecosystems

Yannick Stade, Lukas Burgholzer, Ludwig Schmid +1

Quantum computing is transitioning from an academic idea to a practical technology, driven by recent hardware advancements and clear paths toward real-world applications. Universal…

quant-ph2026

Routing Techniques for Error-Corrected Silicon Spin Qubit Quantum Architectures

Julian Shen, Ludwig Schmid, Robert Wille

Silicon spin qubits have emerged as a promising qubit technology due to their favorable scaling and fabrication properties. However, efficiently compiling quantum circuits onto spi…

quant-ph2026

Alternating ZX Circuit Extraction for Hardware-Adaptive Compilation

Ludwig Schmid, Korbinian Staudacher, Robert Wille

We present a novel quantum circuit extraction scheme that tightly integrates graph-like ZX diagrams with hardware-adaptive routing. The method utilizes the degrees of freedom durin…

quant-ph2025★ 9 cited

The Munich Quantum Software Stack: Connecting End Users, Integrating Diverse Quantum Technologies, Accelerating HPC

Lukas Burgholzer, Jorge Echavarria, Patrick Hopf +11

Quantum computing is advancing rapidly in hardware and algorithms, but broad accessibility demands a comprehensive, efficient, unified software stack. Such a stack must flexibly sp…

quant-ph2025

Deterministic Fault-Tolerant State Preparation for Near-Term Quantum Error Correction: Automatic Synthesis Using Boolean Satisfiability

Ludwig Schmid, Tom Peham, Lucas Berent +2

To ensure resilience against the unavoidable noise in quantum computers, quantum information needs to be encoded using an error-correcting code, and circuits must have a particular…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Optimal State Preparation for Logical Arrays on Zoned Neutral Atom Quantum Computers

Yannick Stade, Ludwig Schmid, Lukas Burgholzer +1

Quantum computing promises to solve problems previously deemed infeasible. However, high error rates necessitate quantum error correction for practical applications. Seminal experi…

quant-ph2024★ 14 cited

Automated Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant State Preparation Circuits for Quantum Error Correction Codes

Tom Peham, Ludwig Schmid, Lucas Berent +2

A central ingredient in fault-tolerant quantum algorithms is the initialization of a logical state for a given quantum error-correcting code from a set of noisy qubits. A scheme th…

quant-ph2024★ 51 cited

The MQT Handbook: A Summary of Design Automation Tools and Software for Quantum Computing

Robert Wille, Lucas Berent, Tobias Forster +10

Quantum computers are becoming a reality and numerous quantum computing applications with a near-term perspective (e.g., for finance, chemistry, machine learning, and optimization)…

quant-ph2024★ 13 cited

An Abstract Model and Efficient Routing for Logical Entangling Gates on Zoned Neutral Atom Architectures

Yannick Stade, Ludwig Schmid, Lukas Burgholzer +1

Recent experimental achievements have demonstrated the potential of neutral atom architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computing. These architectures feature the dynamic rearran…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Multi-controlled Phase Gate Synthesis with ZX-calculus applied to Neutral Atom Hardware

Korbinian Staudacher, Ludwig Schmid, Johannes Zeiher +2

Quantum circuit synthesis describes the process of converting arbitrary unitary operations into a gate sequence of a fixed universal gate set, usually defined by the operations nat…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Hybrid Circuit Mapping: Leveraging the Full Spectrum of Computational Capabilities of Neutral Atom Quantum Computers

Ludwig Schmid, Sunghye Park, Seokhyeong Kang +1

Quantum computing based on Neutral Atoms (NAs) provides a wide range of computational capabilities, encompassing high-fidelity long-range interactions with native multi-qubit gates…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

A general learning scheme for classical and quantum Ising machines

Ludwig Schmid, Enrico Zardini, Davide Pastorello

An Ising machine is any hardware specifically designed for finding the ground state of the Ising model. Relevant examples are coherent Ising machines and quantum annealers. In this…

quant-ph2023★ 33 cited

Computational Capabilities and Compiler Development for Neutral Atom Quantum Processors: Connecting Tool Developers and Hardware Experts

Ludwig Schmid, David F. Locher, Manuel Rispler +4

Neutral Atom Quantum Computing (NAQC) emerges as a promising hardware platform primarily due to its long coherence times and scalability. Additionally, NAQC offers computational ad…