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most citedInvestigating Different Barren Plateaus Mitigation Strategies in Variational Quantum Eigensolver

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quant-ph2026

Predicting Resource Efficient Hamiltonian Decomposition for Continuous-Time Quantum Walk Simulations

Mostafa Atallah, Rebekah Herrman, Zain H. Saleem

Simulating a continuous-time quantum walk (CTQW) on a graph in the circuit model of quantum computing requires decomposing its Hamiltonian into terms that can be Trotterized into h…

quant-ph2026

Layer-wise QUBO-Based Training of CNN Classifiers for Quantum Annealing

Mostafa Atallah, Rebekah Herrman

Variational quantum circuits for image classification suffer from barren plateaus, while quantum kernel methods scale quadratically with dataset size. We propose an iterative frame…

quant-ph2026

A matching decomposition algorithm for simulating quantum walk Hamiltonians

Mostafa Atallah, Alvin Gonzales, Daniel Dilley +3

In this work, we present a new algorithm for generating quantum circuits that efficiently implement continuous time quantum walks on arbitrary simple sparse graphs. The algorithm,…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Investigating Different Barren Plateaus Mitigation Strategies in Variational Quantum Eigensolver

Mostafa Atallah, Nouhaila Innan, Muhammad Kashif +1

Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithms suffer from barren plateaus, where gradients vanish with system size and circuit depth. Although many mitigation strategies exist,…

quant-ph2025

Efficient circuits for leaf-separable state preparation

Sunil Vittal, Anthony Wilkie, Nika Rastegari +2

Efficient state preparation is a challenging and important problem in quantum computing. In this work, we present a recursive state preparation algorithm that combines logarithmic-…

quant-ph2025

An Exclusive-Sum-of-Products Pipeline for QAOA

Matthew Brunet, Shilpi Shah, Mostafa Atallah +2

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm is commonly used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. While unconstrained problems map naturally into the algorithm, incorpo…

quant-ph2025

A mixed-integer program for circuit execution time minimization with precedence constraints

Mostafa Atallah, James Ostrowski, Rebekah Herrman

We present a mixed-integer programming (MIP) model for scheduling quantum circuits to minimize execution time. Our approach maximizes parallelism by allowing non-overlapping gates…

quant-ph2023

Integer Factorization through Func-QAOA

Mostafa Atallah, Haemanth Velmurugan, Rohan Sharma +5

Integer factorization is a significant problem, with implications for the security of widely-used cryptographic schemes. No efficient classical algorithm for polynomial-time intege…