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most citedA Review on Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and its Variants

394 citations · 410 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

quant-ph2026

Efficient Block Encoding of Structured Hamiltonians by Separating Where and What

Alessandro Summer, François Jamet

In fault-tolerant block encodings of structured Hamiltonians, the support geometry can set how the non-Clifford cost of SELECT scales with the system size, however many operators a…

quant-ph2025

Mpemba Effects in Quantum Complexity

Sreemayee Aditya, Alessandro Summer, Piotr Sierant +1

The Mpemba effect is the phenomenon whereby systems farther from equilibrium may relax faster. In this work, we show that this counterintuitive behavior appears in the very measure…

quant-ph2025★ 6 cited

A resource theoretical unification of Mpemba effects: classical and quantum

Alessandro Summer, Mattia Moroder, Laetitia P. Bettmann +3

The Mpemba effect originally referred to the observation that, under certain thermalizing dynamics, initially hotter samples can cool faster than colder ones. This effect has since…

quant-ph2024

Anomalous transport in U(1)-symmetric quantum circuits

Alessandro Summer, Alex Nico-Katz, Shane Dooley +1

In this work we investigate discrete-time transport in a generic U(1)-symmetric disordered model tuned across an array of different dynamical regimes. We develop an aggregate quant…

quant-ph2023★ 394 cited

A Review on Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and its Variants

Kostas Blekos, Dean Brand, Andrea Ceschini +4

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a highly promising variational quantum algorithm that aims to solve combinatorial optimization problems that are classicall…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

Calculating the many-body density of states on a digital quantum computer

Alessandro Summer, Cecilia Chiaracane, Mark T. Mitchison +1

Quantum statistical mechanics allows us to extract thermodynamic information from a microscopic description of a many-body system. A key step is the calculation of the density of s…