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quant-ph2026

Scaling Quantum Optimization to the Thousand-Qubit Scale with Distributed Quantum Sampling

Amana Liaqat, Ahmed Darwish, Stephen DiAdamo +6

The Minimum Birkhoff Decomposition (MBD) seeks a sparse weighted sum of matchings and is a challenging optimization problem with applications in network scheduling and energy tradi…

quant-ph2026

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning Algorithms for Multi-Output Time-Series Forecasting at Utility Scale

Mackenson Polché, Varun Puram, Aditi Lal +6

Multi-output time-series forecasting in energy systems is challenging because of nonlinear dynamics, multi-scale seasonality, and strong dependencies across correlated series. In t…

quant-ph2026

Breaking concentration barriers for quantum extreme learning on digital quantum processors

Timothée Dao, Ege Yilmaz, Ibrahim Shehzad +8

Reservoir computing leverages rich, non-linear dynamics to process temporal data. Quantum variants promise enhanced expressivity from high-dimensional Hilbert spaces, yet their pra…

quant-ph2026

Constrained Quantum Optimization at Utility Scale: Application to the Knapsack Problem

Naeimeh Mohseni, Julien-Pierre Houle, Ibrahim Shehzad +3

Constrained combinatorial optimization problems are challenging for quantum computing, particularly at utility-relevant scales and on near-term hardware. At the same time, these pr…

quant-ph2025

A Lie Theoretic Framework for Controlling Open Quantum Systems

Corey O'Meara

This thesis focuses on the Lie-theoretic foundations of controlled open quantum systems. We describe Markovian open quantum system evolutions by Lie semigroups, whose corresponding…

quant-ph2025

Boosting Sparsity in Graph Decompositions with QAOA Sampling

George Pennington, Naeimeh Mohseni, Oscar Wallis +5

We study the problem of decomposing a graph into a weighted sum of a small number of matchings, a task that arises in network resource allocation problems such as peer-to-peer ener…

quant-ph2025

Enhancing the Scalability of Classical Surrogates for Real-World Quantum Machine Learning Applications

Philip Anton Hernicht, Alona Sakhnenko, Corey O'Meara +2

Quantum machine learning (QML) presents potential for early industrial adoption, yet limited access to quantum hardware remains a significant bottleneck for deployment of QML solut…

quant-ph2025

Efficient QAOA Architecture for Solving Multi-Constrained Optimization Problems

David Bucher, Daniel Porawski, Maximilian Janetschek +4

This paper proposes a novel combination of constraint encoding methods for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Ansatz (QAOA). Real-world optimization problems typically consist of…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum Computing in the Computational Landscape of Power Electronics: Vision and Reality

Nikolaos G. Paterakis, Petros Karamanakos, Corey O'Meara +1

Quantum computing is rapidly emerging as a promising technology for solving complex optimization problems that arise in various engineering fields. Therefore, it holds significant…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Quantum Optimization Benchmarking Library - The Intractable Decathlon

Thorsten Koch, David E. Bernal Neira, Ying Chen +24

Through recent progress in hardware development, quantum computers have advanced to the point where benchmarking of (heuristic) quantum algorithms at scale is within reach. Particu…

quant-ph2025

Grid Cost Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Electricity Markets: Benchmarking Classical and Quantum Optimization Approaches

David Bucher, Daniel Porawski, Benedikt Wimmer +4

This paper presents a novel optimization approach for allocating grid operation costs in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) electricity markets using Quantum Computing (QC). We develop a Quadratic…

quant-ph2024

Reducing QUBO Density by Factoring Out Semi-Symmetries

Jonas Nüßlein, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein +6

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and Quantum Annealing are prominent approaches for solving combinatorial optimization problems, such as those formulated as Quadra…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Mitigating exponential concentration in covariant quantum kernels for subspace and real-world data

Gabriele Agliardi, Giorgio Cortiana, Anton Dekusar +6

Fidelity quantum kernels have shown promise in classification tasks, particularly when a group structure in the data can be identified and exploited through a covariant feature map…

quant-ph2024

Quantum multi-output Gaussian Processes based Machine Learning for Line Parameter Estimation in Electrical Grids

Priyanka Arkalgud Ganeshamurthy, Kumar Ghosh, Corey O'Meara +3

Gaussian process (GP) is a powerful modeling method with applications in machine learning for various engineering and non-engineering fields. Despite numerous benefits of modeling…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Towards Less Greedy Quantum Coalition Structure Generation in Induced Subgraph Games

Jonas Nüßlein, Daniëlle Schuman, David Bucher +5

The transition to 100% renewable energy requires new techniques for managing energy networks, such as dividing them into sensible subsets of prosumers called micro-grids. Doing so…

math.OC2024★ 1 cited

A Machine Learning Approach to Boost the Vehicle-2-Grid Scheduling

Gabriele Agliardi, Giorgio Cortiana, Anton Dekusar +6

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are emerging as battery energy storage systems (BESSs) of increasing importance for different power grid services. However, the unique characteristics of EV…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Bridging the Gap to Next Generation Power System Planning and Operation with Quantum Computation

Priyanka Arkalgud Ganeshamurthy, Kumar Ghosh, Corey O'Meara +2

Innovative solutions and developments are being inspected to tackle rising electrical power demand to be supplied by clean forms of energy. The integration of renewable energy gene…

quant-ph2024

Evaluating Quantum Optimization for Dynamic Self-Reliant Community Detection

David Bucher, Daniel Porawski, Benedikt Wimmer +5

Power grid partitioning is an important requirement for resilient distribution grids. Since electricity production is progressively shifted to the distribution side, dynamic identi…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Quantum Optimization for the Future Energy Grid: Summary and Quantum Utility Prospects

Jonas Blenninger, David Bucher, Giorgio Cortiana +6

In this project summary paper, we summarize the key results and use-cases explored in the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funded project "Q-GRID" which aim…

quant-ph2023★ 181 cited

Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Optimization

Amira Abbas, Andris Ambainis, Brandon Augustino +43

Recent advances in quantum computers are demonstrating the ability to solve problems at a scale beyond brute force classical simulation. As such, a widespread interest in quantum a…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Incentivising Demand Side Response through Discount Scheduling using Hybrid Quantum Optimization

David Bucher, Jonas Nüßlein, Corey O'Meara +5

Demand Side Response (DSR) is a strategy that enables consumers to actively participate in managing electricity demand. It aims to alleviate strain on the grid during high demand a…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Energy risk analysis with Dynamic Amplitude Estimation and Piecewise Approximate Quantum Compiling

Kumar J. B. Ghosh, Kavitha Yogaraj, Gabriele Agliardi +6

We generalize the Approximate Quantum Compiling algorithm into a new method for CNOT-depth reduction, which is apt to process wide target quantum circuits. Combining this method wi…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Conditions for a quadratic quantum speedup in nonlinear transforms with applications to energy contract pricing

Gabriele Agliardi, Corey O'Meara, Kavitha Yogaraj +8

Computing nonlinear functions over multilinear forms is a general problem with applications in risk analysis. For instance in the domain of energy economics, accurate and timely ri…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

Towards AutoQML: A Cloud-Based Automated Circuit Architecture Search Framework

Raúl Berganza Gómez, Corey O'Meara, Giorgio Cortiana +2

The learning process of classical machine learning algorithms is tuned by hyperparameters that need to be customized to best learn and generalize from an input dataset. In recent y…