collaborators

9 papers

quant-ph2026

Structured Parameterization and Non-Stabilizerness in Hypergraph QAOA

Evan Camilleri, André Xuereb, Tony J. G. Apollaro +1

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) has emerged as a promising candidate for demonstrating quantum advantage on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. W…

quant-ph2026

Approaching the Limit of Quantum Clock Precision

Chad Nelmes, Emanuel Schwarzhans, Tony Apollaro +2

Precise and autonomous clocks are of fundamental interest and central importance to both foundational studies and practical applications. Here, we construct a blueprint for a quant…

quant-ph2026

Variational Gibbs State Preparation on Trapped-Ion Devices

Reece Robertson, Mirko Consiglio, Josey Stevens +3

We implement a variational quantum algorithm for Gibbs state preparation of a transverse-field Ising model on IonQ's quantum computers. To this end, we train the variational parame…

quant-ph2025

Achieving fast and robust perfect entangling gates via reinforcement learning

Leander Grech, Matthias G. Krauss, Mirko Consiglio +4

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers hold the promise of tackling complex and otherwise intractable computational challenges through the massive parallelism offered by qubits…

quant-ph2025

Memory effects in repeated uses of quantum channels

Hayden Zammit, Roberto Salazar, Gianluca Valentino +2

Quantum Information Processing (QIP) tasks can be efficiently formulated in terms of quantum dynamical maps, whose formalism is able to provide the appropriate mathematical represe…

quant-ph2025

Quantum detectors as autonomous machines: assessing the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of information acquisition

Emanuel Schwarzhans, Tony J. G. Apollaro, Ilia Khomchenko +3

We formulate a minimal model of a quantum particle detector as an autonomous quantum thermal machine. Our goal is to establish how entropy production, which is needed to maintain t…