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quant-ph2026

Quantum Simulation on Riemannian Manifolds

Dylan Herman, Jacob Watkins, Guneykan Ozgul +4

We investigate algorithms for the quantum simulation of the Schrödinger equation on a Riemannian manifold, where the kinetic operator is defined by the Laplace--Beltrami operator c…

quant-ph2026

An analysis of iterative refinement for quantum linear system solvers

Adrian Harkness, Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi, Brandon Augustino +2

We present and analyze an iterative refinement (IR) framework for improving the precision dependence of algorithms that combine a quantum linear system algorithm (QLSA) with quantu…

quant-ph2026

Near-Optimal Quantum Lower Bounds for Convex Optimization via Fourier Rank

Brandon Augustino, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Enrico Fontana +4

We establish a linear quantum query lower bound for high-accuracy convex optimization over an explicit family of -dimensional ellipsoids. We focus on linear optimization with an…

quant-ph2026

Faster Algorithms for Multimarginal Optimal Transport

Brandon Augustino, Yue Sun, Atithi Acharya +4

We study constructive discrete multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) among distributions on points, where the cost tensor has entries. For additive accuracy $\v…

quant-ph2026

Regularized Warm-Started Quantum Approximate Optimization and Conditions for Surpassing Classical Solvers on the Max-Cut Problem

Zichang He, Anuj Apte, Brandon Augustino +4

Demonstrating quantum heuristics that outperform strong classical solvers on large-scale optimization remains an open challenge. Here we introduce Regularized Warm-Started QAOA (RW…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Speedups for Group Relaxations of Integer Linear Programs

Brandon Augustino, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +5

Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) are a flexible and ubiquitous model for discrete optimization problems. Solving ILPs is \textsf{NP-Hard} yet of great practical importance. Super-qua…

quant-ph2025

On Speedups for Convex Optimization via Quantum Dynamics

Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Jacob Watkins +4

We explore the potential for quantum speedups in convex optimization using discrete simulations of the Quantum Hamiltonian Descent (QHD) framework, as proposed by Leng et al., and…

quant-ph2025

Fast Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods

Brandon Augustino, Dylan Herman, Enrico Fontana +4

We study quantum algorithms based on quantum (sub)gradient estimation using noisy function evaluation oracles, and demonstrate the first dimension-independent query complexities (u…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Strategies for running the QAOA at hundreds of qubits

Brandon Augustino, Madelyn Cain, Edward Farhi +5

We explore strategies aimed at reducing the amount of computation, both quantum and classical, required to run the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). First, followi…

quant-ph2024

Generalized Short Path Algorithms: Towards Super-Quadratic Speedup over Markov Chain Search for Combinatorial Optimization

Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +6

We analyze generalizations of quantum algorithms based on the short path framework first proposed by Hastings~[\textit{Quantum} 2, 78 (2018)], which has been extended and shown by…

quant-ph2023★ 181 cited

Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Optimization

Amira Abbas, Andris Ambainis, Brandon Augustino +43

Recent advances in quantum computers are demonstrating the ability to solve problems at a scale beyond brute force classical simulation. As such, a widespread interest in quantum a…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

A quantum central path algorithm for linear optimization

Brandon Augustino, Jiaqi Leng, Giacomo Nannicini +2

We propose a novel quantum algorithm for solving linear optimization problems by quantum-mechanical simulation of the central path. While interior point methods follow the central…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Solving the semidefinite relaxation of QUBOs in matrix multiplication time, and faster with a quantum computer

Brandon Augustino, Giacomo Nannicini, Tamás Terlaky +1

Recent works on quantum algorithms for solving semidefinite optimization (SDO) problems have leveraged a quantum-mechanical interpretation of positive semidefinite matrices to deve…

quant-ph2021★ 24 cited

Quantum Interior Point Methods for Semidefinite Optimization

Brandon Augustino, Giacomo Nannicini, Tamás Terlaky +1

We present two quantum interior point methods for semidefinite optimization problems, building on recent advances in quantum linear system algorithms. The first scheme, more simila…