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most citedChallenges and Opportunities in Quantum Optimization

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quant-ph2025

Quantum Data Learning of Topological-to-Ferromagnetic Phase Transitions in the 2+1D Toric Code Loop Gas Model

Shamminuj Aktar, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Andreas Bärtschi +2

Quantum data learning (QDL) provides a framework for extracting physical insights directly from quantum states, bypassing the need for any identification of the classical observabl…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Evaluating the Limits of QAOA Parameter Transfer at High-Rounds on Sparse Ising Models With Geometrically Local Cubic Terms

Elijah Pelofske, Marek Rams, Andreas Bärtschi +4

The emergent practical applicability of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for approximate combinatorial optimization is a subject of considerable interest. One…

quant-ph2025

Variational Quantum Simulations of a Two-Dimensional Frustrated Transverse-Field Ising Model on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

Ammar Kirmani, Elijah Pelofske, Andreas Bärtschi +2

Quantum computers are an ideal platform to study the ground state properties of strongly correlated systems due to the limitation of classical computing techniques particularly for…

quant-ph2024

Snapshot-QAOA: Extending QAOA to Quantum Hamiltonian Simulation

Reuben Tate, Quinn Langfitt, Elijah Pelofske +4

We present Snapshot-QAOA, a variation of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) that finds approximate minimum energy eigenstates of a large set of quantum Hamiltoni…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Approximate Optimization: A Computational Intelligence Perspective

Christo Meriwether Keller, Satyajayant Misra, Andreas Bärtschi +1

Quantum computing is an emerging field on the multidisciplinary interface between physics, engineering, and computer science with the potential to make a large impact on computatio…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Potential Applications of Quantum Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Andreas Bärtschi, Francesco Caravelli, Carleton Coffrin +16

The emergence of quantum computing technology over the last decade indicates the potential for a transformational impact in the study of quantum mechanical systems. It is natural t…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Graph Neural Networks for Parameterized Quantum Circuits Expressibility Estimation

Shamminuj Aktar, Andreas Bärtschi, Diane Oyen +2

Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) are fundamental to quantum machine learning (QML), quantum optimization, and variational quantum algorithms (VQAs). The expressibility of PQCs…

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

Simulating Heavy-Hex Transverse Field Ising Model Magnetization Dynamics Using Programmable Quantum Annealers

Elijah Pelofske, Andreas Bärtschi, Stephan Eidenbenz

Recently, a Hamiltonian dynamics simulation was performed on a kicked ferromagnetic 2D transverse field Ising model with a connectivity graph native to the 127 qubit heavy-hex IBM…

quant-ph2022★ 16 cited

Signatures of Open and Noisy Quantum Systems in Single-Qubit Quantum Annealing

Zachary Morrell, Marc Vuffray, Andrey Lokhov +3

We propose a quantum annealing protocol that more effectively probes the dynamics of a single qubit on D-Wave's quantum annealing hardware. This protocol uses D-Wave's h-gain sched…