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most citedQAOA Performance in Noisy Devices: The Effect of Classical Optimizers and Ansatz Depth

35 citations · 49 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantum in Biology, Quantum for Biology, and Biology for Quantum: Mapping the Evidence and the Road Ahead

Lea Gassab, Betony Adams, Yashine H. Goolam Hossen +7

Quantum science and biology now intersect in three complementary directions: quantum in biology, quantum for biology, and biology for quantum. This review provides a structured nar…

quant-ph2026

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Logistic Regression for Calibrated Classification of Pulsar Candidates

Chanelle Matadah Manfouo, Donovan Slabbert, Prince Koree Osei +1

Reliable pulsar candidate ranking requires probability estimates that are not only discriminative but also well calibrated. We evaluate hybrid quantum-calssical logistic regression…

physics.bio-ph2026

Conditional Enhancement of Radical Pair Dynamics via Chiral State Preparation

Tristen Gwynn, Betony Adams, Francesco Petruccione

Chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been shown to enhance magnetic sensitivity in radical pair mechanism (RPM) models under specific Hamiltonian conditions, yet whether thes…

quant-ph2026

Noise-Resilient Quantum Chemistry with Half the Qubits

Shane McFarthing, Aidan Pellow-Jarman, Francesco Petruccione

Sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) offers a powerful route to accurate quantum chemistry on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices by combining quantum sampling wi…

quant-ph2026

Microscopic derivation of a completely positive master equation for the description of Open Quantum Brownian Motion of a particle in a potential

Ayanda Zungu, Ilya Sinayskiy, Francesco Petruccione

Open Quantum Brownian Motion (OQBM) was introduced as a scaling limit of discrete-time open quantum walks. This limit defines a new class of quantum Brownian motion, which incorpor…

quant-ph2025

Spin quantum computing, spin quantum cognition

Betony Adams, Francesco Petruccione

Over two decades ago, Bruce Kane proposed that spin-half phosphorus nuclei embedded in a spin-zero silicon substrate could serve as a viable platform for spin-based quantum computi…

quant-ph2025

Adiabatic elimination and Wigner function approach in microscopic derivation of Open Quantum Brownian Motion

Ayanda Zungu, Ilya Sinayskiy, Francesco Petruccione

Open Quantum Brownian Motion (OQBM) is a new class of quantum Brownian motion in which the dynamics of the Brownian particle depend not only on interactions with a thermal environm…

quant-ph2025

Automated Quantum Algorithm Design using a Domain-Specific Language

Amy Rouillard, Matt Lourens, Francesco Petruccione

We present a computational method to automatically design the n-qubit realisations of quantum algorithms. Our approach leverages a domain-specific language (DSL) that enables the c…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Generating Generalised Ground-State Ansatzes from Few-Body Examples

Matt Lourens, Ilya Sinayskiy, Johannes N. Kriel +1

We introduce a method that generates ground-state ansatzes for quantum many-body systems which are both analytically tractable and accurate over wide parameter regimes. Our approac…

physics.bio-ph2024

Fool's gold: ligand-receptor interactions and the origins of life

Betony Adams, Angela Illing, Francesco Petruccione

The origins of life is a question that continues to intrigue scientists across disciplines. One theory - the iron-sulphur theory - suggests that reactions essential to the synthesi…

physics.bio-ph2024

Quantum evolution: terrestrial fine-tuning of magnetic parameters

Betony Adams, Abbas Hassasfar, Ilya Sinayskiy +3

For the first time in history, humankind might conceivably begin to imagine itself as a multi-planetary species. This goal will entail technical innovation in a number of contexts,…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Entanglement and coherence in pure and doped Posner molecules

Betony Adams, Ilya Sinayskiy, Shivang Agarwal +1

The potential role of spin in biological systems is a primary topic in quantum biology. However, much of this research focuses on electron spin. A recent hypothesis suggests that n…

quant-ph2023★ 35 cited

QAOA Performance in Noisy Devices: The Effect of Classical Optimizers and Ansatz Depth

Aidan Pellow-Jarman, Shane McFarthing, Ilya Sinayskiy +3

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a variational quantum algorithm for Near-term Intermediate-Scale Quantum computers (NISQ) providing approximate solutions f…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

A Multi-Class SWAP-Test Classifier

S M Pillay, I Sinayskiy, E Jembere +1

Multi-class classification problems are fundamental in many varied domains in research and industry. To solve multi-class classification problems, heuristic strategies such as One-…