21 papers
Quantum optimization beyond QUBO for industrial logistics and scheduling
Juan F. R. Hernandez, Pavle Nikacevic, Enrique Solano +4
The increasing complexity of industrial scheduling and transport routing problems motivates the study of alternative optimization formulations and computational paradigms. In this…
Off-line quantum-advantage feature extraction for industrial production
Carlos Flores-Garrigos, Gabriel D. Alvarado Barrios, Qi Zhang +2
Quantum computing is no longer a lab curiosity for academic research. Industrial processors exceeding 100 qubits are commercially accessible and, for the first time, can extract in…
Protein folding on a 64 qubit trapped-ion hardware via counterdiabatic quantum optimization
Alejandro Gomez Cadavid, Pavle NikaÄeviÄ, Pranav Chandarana +11
We report the largest trapped-ion hardware demonstration of lattice protein-folding optimization to date, using bias-field digitized counterdiabatic quantum optimization (BF-DCQO)…
Quantum Feature Selection with Higher-Order Binary Optimization on Trapped-Ion Hardware
Carlos Flores-Garrigós, Anton Simen, Qi Zhang +6
We present a quantum feature-selection framework based on a higher-order unconstrained binary optimization (HUBO) formulation that explicitly incorporates multivariate dependencies…
Digitized counterdiabatic quantum critical dynamics
Anne-Maria Visuri, Alejandro Gomez Cadavid, Balaganchi A. Bhargava +6
We experimentally demonstrate that a digitized counterdiabatic quantum protocol reduces the number of topological defects created during a fast quench across a quantum phase transi…
The Quest for Quantum Advantage in Combinatorial Optimization: End-to-end Benchmarking of Quantum Solvers vs. Multi-core Classical Solvers
Pranav Chandarana, Alejandro Gomez Cadavid, Enrique Solano +3
We perform an end-to-end benchmark of a hybrid sequential quantum computing (HSQC) solver for higher-order unconstrained binary optimization (HUBO), executed on IBM Heron r3 quantu…