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most citedCalibrating the role of entanglement in variational quantum circuits

21 citations · 51 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Quantum quenches of scar states in the Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki model via Clifford augmented tensor network simulation

Azar C. Nakhl, Ben Harper, Muhammad Usman +1

Clifford augmented methods have emerged as a powerful technique to simulate quantum circuits and many-body systems by exploiting the stabiliser structure found in said systems, whi…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Quantum-Inspired Computational Fluid Dynamics for Transient Turbulent Compressible Flows

Shang Xian Matthew Lee, Melissa Kozul, Muhammad Usman +3

Quantum-inspired algorithms are an emerging class of algorithms for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with potentially favourable scaling for large problems compared to classical…

quant-ph2026

LUCI on IBM Hardware: Error Suppression with Almost Half Syndrome Density

Younghun Kim, Spiro Gicev, Martin Sevior +1

Long-lived logical qubits are essential for fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, the practical performance of traditional error correction protocols relies on performing sp…

quant-ph2026

Fourier analysis of quantum neural network with non-linear data embedding

Haiyue Kang, Martin Sevior, Muhammad Usman

Fourier analysis has become a crucial tool for understanding the expressivity of Variational Quantum Circuit (VQC) models, as well as an important indicator of barren plateaus (BP)…

quant-ph2026

Crosstalk In Contemporary Quantum Devices

Spiro Gicev, Ben Harper, Haiyue Kang +2

Crosstalk noise derives from phenomena in quantum devices which inhibit individual addressability or cause unintended interactions among qubits. It is widely considered one of the…

quant-ph2026

Non-Clifford Crosstalk Noise in Surface Codes Using Hybrid Stabilizer-Tensor Network Methods

Ben Harper, Azar C. Nakhl, Martin Sevior +1

Scalable realisation of quantum computing is reliant on the development of fault tolerant devices. Analysis of quantum error correction protocols typically considers incoherent noi…

quant-ph2026

Feature-level analysis and adversarial transfer in rotationally equivariant quantum machine learning

Maureen Krumtünger, Martin Sevior, Muhammad Usman

Group-equivariant quantum models are designed to exploit symmetry and can improve trainability, but it remains unclear how symmetry constraints shape their adversarial robustness.…

quant-ph2026

Time-Dynamic Circuits for Fault-Tolerant Shift Automorphisms in Quantum LDPC Codes

Younghun Kim, Spiro Gicev, Martin Sevior +1

Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes have emerged as a promising approach for realizing low-overhead logical quantum memories. Recent theoretical developments have establ…

quant-ph2025

GCAMPS: A Scalable Classical Simulator for Qudit Systems

Ben Harper, Azar C. Nakhl, Thomas Quella +2

Classical simulations of quantum systems are notoriously difficult computational problems, with conventional state vector and tensor network methods restricted to quantum systems t…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Time-adaptive single-shot crosstalk detector on superconducting quantum computer

Haiyue Kang, Benjamin Harper, Muhammad Usman +1

Quantum crosstalk which stems from unwanted interference of quantum operations with nearby qubits is a major source of noise or errors in a quantum processor. In the context of sha…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Magic State Injection on IBM Quantum Processors Above the Distillation Threshold

Younghun Kim, Martin Sevior, Muhammad Usman

The surface code family is a promising approach to implementing fault-tolerant quantum computations. Universal fault-tolerance requires error-corrected non-Clifford operations, in…

quant-ph2024★ 16 cited

Stabilizer Tensor Networks with Magic State Injection

Azar C. Nakhl, Ben Harper, Maxwell West +4

This work augments the recently introduced Stabilizer Tensor Network (STN) protocol with magic state injection, reporting a new framework with significantly enhanced ability to sim…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Transversal CNOT gate with multi-cycle error correction

Younghun Kim, Martin Sevior, Muhammad Usman

A scalable and programmable quantum computer holds the potential to solve computationally intensive tasks that classical computers cannot accomplish within a reasonable time frame,…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Adversarial Robustness Guarantees for Quantum Classifiers

Neil Dowling, Maxwell T. West, Angus Southwell +4

Despite their ever more widespread deployment throughout society, machine learning algorithms remain critically vulnerable to being spoofed by subtle adversarial tampering with the…

quant-ph2023★ 21 cited

Calibrating the role of entanglement in variational quantum circuits

Azar C. Nakhl, Thomas Quella, Muhammad Usman

Entanglement is a key property of quantum computing that separates it from its classical counterpart, however, its exact role in the performance of quantum algorithms, especially v…