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20222026
most citedCo-Designed Architectures for Modular Superconducting Quantum Computers

9 citations · 16 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.AI2026

How Good Are Frontier Models at Physics? Expert Re-Grading Reveals Broken Evaluations and Near-Saturation of Leading Benchmarks

Ali Ansari, Haoran Sun, Andy Zeyi Liu +48

Low reported scores on leading physics benchmarks, including those featured in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (2026), suggest that frontier language models still strugg…

quant-ph2026

Fidelity-Aware Frequency Allocation and Transpilation Co-Design for Tunable Coupler Quantum Systems

Dylan VanAllen, Evan McKinney, Israa G. Yusuf +5

Frequency crowding is a fundamental limitation in superconducting quantum architectures, particularly in tunable-coupler systems. We present a framework that explicitly models both…

quant-ph2026

Efficient Routing of Quantum LDPC Codes on Programmable 2D Toric Architectures

Kun Liu, Takahiro Tsunoda, Sophia H. Xue +5

Quantum low-density parity-check codes are promising candidates towards scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation. Among these, bivariate bicycle (BB) codes offer superior encodi…

quant-ph2025

Symbolic Hamiltonian Compiler for Hybrid Qubit-Boson Processors

Ethan Decker, Erik Gustafson, Evan McKinney +7

Quantum simulation of the interactions of fermions and bosons -- the fundamental particles of nature -- is essential for modeling complex quantum systems in material science, chemi…

quant-ph2025

Autoregressive pairwise Graphical Models efficiently find ground state representations of stoquastic Hamiltonians

Yuchen Pang, Abhijith Jayakumar, Evan McKinney +3

We introduce Autoregressive Graphical Models (AGMs) as an Ansatz for modeling the ground states of stoquastic Hamiltonians. Exact learning of these models for smaller systems show…

quant-ph2025

GULPS: Two-Qubit Gate Synthesis via Linear Programming for Heterogeneous Instruction Sets

Evan McKinney, Lev S. Bishop

Modern quantum hardware exposes heterogeneous two-qubit instruction sets through fractional, continuously parameterized, and per-pair native gates, but synthesis remains largely fr…

quant-ph2025

Kernpiler: Compiler Optimization for Quantum Hamiltonian Simulation with Partial Trotterization

Ethan Decker, Lucas Goetz, Evan McKinney +9

Quantum computing promises transformative impacts in simulating Hamiltonian dynamics, essential for studying physical systems inaccessible by classical computing. However, existing…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Spectator-Aware Frequency Allocation in Tunable-Coupler Quantum Architectures

Evan McKinney, Israa G. Yusuf, Girgis Falstin +3

This paper addresses frequency crowding in SNAIL-based superconducting quantum modules. First, we present design constraints by describing a physical model for realizable gates wit…

cs.AR2024

Towards Error Correction for Computing in Racetrack Memory

Preston Brazzle, Benjamin F. Morris, Evan McKinney +4

Computing-in-memory (CIM) promises to alleviate the Von Neumann bottleneck and accelerate data-intensive applications. Depending on the underlying technology and configuration, CIM…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

MIRAGE: Quantum Circuit Decomposition and Routing Collaborative Design using Mirror Gates

Evan McKinney, Michael Hatridge, Alex K. Jones

Building efficient large-scale quantum computers is a significant challenge due to limited qubit connectivities and noisy hardware operations. Transpilation is critical to ensure t…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Parallel Driving for Fast Quantum Computing Under Speed Limits

Evan McKinney, Chao Zhou, Mingkang Xia +2

Increasing quantum circuit fidelity requires an efficient instruction set to avoid errors from decoherence. The choice of a two-qubit (2Q) hardware basis gate depends on a quantum…

quant-ph2022★ 9 cited

Co-Designed Architectures for Modular Superconducting Quantum Computers

Evan McKinney, Mingkang Xia, Chao Zhou +3

Noisy, Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers have reached the point where they can show the potential for quantum advantage over classical computing. Unfortunately, NISQ mach…