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most citedDeterministic constant-depth preparation of the AKLT state on a quantum processor using fusion measurements

71 citations · 166 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

quant-ph2026

Resilience Beyond the Light Cone: Error-Detected Primitives for Practical Dynamic Circuits

Kevin C. Smith, Bibek Pokharel, Satvik Maurya +1

Dynamic circuits, which augment unitary operations with mid-circuit measurements and classical feedforward, can generate long-range entanglement in constant depth, enabling low-dep…

quant-ph2026

Observable Estimation in the Absence of Classical Verification

Samantha V. Barron, Bradley Mitchell, Vinay Tripathi +45

The predictive success of quantum mechanics underpins many areas of modern science, even as the exact simulation of large, interacting quantum systems remains beyond the reach of c…

quant-ph2026

Preparing 100-qubit symmetry-protected topological order on a digital quantum computer

George Pennington, Kevin C. Smith, James R. Garrison +3

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases extend the Landau paradigm of quantum matter by admitting distinct symmetry-preserving phases that lack any local order parameter. Demon…

quant-ph2026

Observation of Improved Accuracy over Classical Sparse Ground-State Solvers using a Quantum Computer

William Kirby, Bibek Pokharel, Javier Robledo Moreno +25

Demonstrating quantum advantage over classical algorithms for ground state energy problems is an outstanding open problem in quantum computation. We experimentally demonstrate that…

quant-ph2026

Measurement-Based Preparation of Higher-Dimensional AKLT States and Their Quantum Computational Power

Wenhan Guo, Mikhail Litvinov, Tzu-Chieh Wei +2

We investigate a constant-time, fusion measurement-based scheme to create AKLT states beyond one dimension. We show that it is possible to prepare such states on a given graph up t…

quant-ph2025

Systematic Construction of Time-Dependent Hamiltonians for Microwave-Driven Josephson Circuits

Yao Lu, Tianpu Zhao, André Vallières +13

Time-dependent electromagnetic drives are fundamental for controlling complex quantum systems, including superconducting Josephson circuits. In these devices, accurate time-depende…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Constrained many-body phases in a -Higgs lattice gauge theory

Alexander Schuckert, Stefan Kühn, Kevin C. Smith +2

We study the ground-state phase diagram of a one-dimensional lattice gauge theory coupled to soft-core bosonic matter at unit filling, inspired by the Higgs sector o…

quant-ph2025

Co-Designing Spectral Transformation Oracles with Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: From Algorithms to Compilation

Luke Bell, Yan Wang, Kevin C. Smith +3

We co-design a family of quantum eigenvalue transformation oracles that can be efficiently implemented on hybrid discrete/continuous-variable (qubit/qumode) hardware. To illustrate…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: Simulating Fermions, Bosons, and Gauge Fields

Eleanor Crane, Kevin C. Smith, Teague Tomesh +9

We develop a hybrid oscillator-qubit processor framework for quantum simulation of strongly correlated fermions and bosons that avoids the boson-to-qubit mapping overhead encounter…

eess.SP2024★ 8 cited

Toward Mixed Analog-Digital Quantum Signal Processing: Quantum AD/DA Conversion and the Fourier Transform

Yuan Liu, John M. Martyn, Jasmine Sinanan-Singh +3

Signal processing stands as a pillar of classical computation and modern information technology, applicable to both analog and digital signals. Recently, advancements in quantum in…

quant-ph2024★ 26 cited

Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: Instruction Set Architectures, Abstract Machine Models, and Applications

Yuan Liu, Shraddha Singh, Kevin C. Smith +11

Quantum computing with discrete variable (DV, qubit) hardware is approaching the large scales necessary for computations beyond the reach of classical computers. However, important…

quant-ph2024★ 51 cited

Constant-depth preparation of matrix product states with adaptive quantum circuits

Kevin C. Smith, Abid Khan, Bryan K. Clark +2

Adaptive quantum circuits, which combine local unitary gates, midcircuit measurements, and feedforward operations, have recently emerged as a promising avenue for efficient state p…

quant-ph2022★ 71 cited

Deterministic constant-depth preparation of the AKLT state on a quantum processor using fusion measurements

Kevin C. Smith, Eleanor Crane, Nathan Wiebe +1

The ground state of the spin-1 Affleck, Kennedy, Lieb and Tasaki (AKLT) model is a paradigmatic example of both a matrix product state and a symmetry-protected topological phase, a…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Bosonic Qiskit

Timothy J Stavenger, Eleanor Crane, Kevin Smith +3

The practical benefits of hybrid quantum information processing hardware that contains continuous-variable objects (bosonic modes such as mechanical or electromagnetic oscillators)…