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9 papers

quant-ph2026

Warm-Starting MaxCut Relaxation via Low-Depth Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Bao G. Bach, Ilya Safro, Filip B. Maciejewski

Quantum optimization has attracted growing interest as quantum hardware continues to improve, yet state-of-the-art classical solvers remain a formidable benchmark for practical uti…

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Efficient Compilation for Shuttling Trapped-Ion Machines via the Position Graph Architectural Abstraction

Bao Bach, Ilya Safro, Ed Younis

With the growth of quantum platforms for gate-based quantum computation, compilation holds a crucial role in deciding the success of the implementation. While there has been rich r…

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Quantum Hypergraph Partitioning

Cameron Ibrahim, Bao G. Bach, Jad Salem +4

Quantum optimization algorithms are inherently probabilistic, yet they are most often used to search for a single high-quality solution. In this paper, we instead study hypergraph…

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Scaling Qubit Mapping and Routing With Position Graph Abstraction and Memoization

Brent Russon, Bao Bach, Ed Younis +1

Scalable qubit mapping and routing remain major bottlenecks in quantum compilation, especially for Trapped-Ion Quantum Charge-Coupled device (TI-QCCD) architectures, where qubit in…

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Reductions of QAOA Induced by Classical Symmetries: Theoretical Insights and Practical Implications

Boris Tsvelikhovskiy, Bao Bach, Jose Falla +1

The performance of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is closely tied to the structure of the dynamical Lie algebra (DLA) generated by its Hamiltonians, which de…

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Learning Cut Distributions with Quantum Optimization

Bao Bach, Cameron Ibrahim, Reuben Tate +3

Many combinatorial optimization problems admit a maximin fairness variant, where the aim is to find a distribution over possible solutions which maximizes an expected worst-case ou…