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20092026
most citedStrong Resilience of Topological Codes to Depolarization

149 citations · 540 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantum-Informed Portfolio Selection: An End-to-End Pipeline Validated on Trapped-Ion Hardware with Real Market Data

Romina Yalovetzky, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Zichang He +11

Portfolio diversification - a cornerstone of modern investment management - can be formulated as a Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem on asset correlation graphs. Solving this p…

cs.AI2026

A Constraint Programming Approach for n-Day Lookahead Playoff Clinching in the NHL

Gili Rosenberg, Kyle E. C. Booth, J. Kyle Brubaker +1

In professional sports, a team has clinched the playoffs if they are guaranteed a postseason spot, regardless of the outcomes of any remaining games. As the season progresses, spor…

math.OC2025

Modern Computational Methods in Reinsurance Optimization: From Simulated Annealing to Quantum Branch & Bound

George Woodman, Ruben S. Andrist, Thomas Häner +4

We propose and implement modern computational methods to enhance catastrophe excess-of-loss reinsurance contracts in practice. The underlying optimization problem involves attachme…

quant-ph2025

qReduMIS: A Quantum-Informed Reduction Algorithm for the Maximum Independent Set Problem

Martin J. A. Schuetz, Romina Yalovetzky, Ruben S. Andrist +8

We propose and implement a quantum-informed reduction algorithm for the maximum independent set problem that integrates classical kernelization techniques with information extracte…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Compilation Toolkit for Rydberg Atom Arrays with Implications for Problem Hardness and Quantum Speedups

Martin J. A. Schuetz, Ruben S. Andrist, Grant Salton +7

We propose and implement a comprehensive quantum compilation toolkit for solving the maximum independent set (MIS) problem on quantum hardware based on Rydberg atom arrays. Our end…

math.OC2024★ 6 cited

Decomposition Pipeline for Large-Scale Portfolio Optimization with Applications to Near-Term Quantum Computing

Atithi Acharya, Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen +10

Industrially relevant constrained optimization problems, such as portfolio optimization and portfolio rebalancing, are often intractable or difficult to solve exactly. In this work…

quant-ph2023★ 31 cited

Hardness of the Maximum Independent Set Problem on Unit-Disk Graphs and Prospects for Quantum Speedups

Ruben S. Andrist, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Pierre Minssen +9

Rydberg atom arrays are among the leading contenders for the demonstration of quantum speedups. Motivated by recent experiments with up to 289 qubits [Ebadi et al., Science 376, 12…

quant-ph2016★ 20 cited

Error tolerance of topological codes with independent bit-flip and measurement errors

Ruben S. Andrist, Helmut G. Katzgraber, H. Bombin +1

Topological quantum error correction codes are currently among the most promising candidates for efficiently dealing with the decoherence effects inherently present in quantum devi…

cond-mat.dis-nn2015★ 9 cited

Erratum: Glassy Chimeras Could Be Blind to Quantum Speedup. . . [Phys. Rev. X 4, 021008 (2014)]

Martin Weigel, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Jonathan Machta +2

Erratum to Phys. Rev. X 4, 021008 (2014): The critical exponent associated with the ferromagnetic susceptibility was computed incorrectly. Furthermore, Ising ferromagnets on the Ch…

quant-ph2014★ 42 cited

Error Thresholds for Abelian Quantum Double Models: Increasing the bit-flip Stability of Topological Quantum Memory

Ruben S. Andrist, James R. Wootton, Helmut G. Katzgraber

Current approaches for building quantum computing devices focus on two-level quantum systems which nicely mimic the concept of a classical bit, albeit enhanced with additional quan…

cond-mat.dis-nn2014★ 141 cited

Glassy Chimeras could be blind to quantum speedup: Designing better benchmarks for quantum annealing machines

Helmut G. Katzgraber, Firas Hamze, Ruben S. Andrist

Recently, a programmable quantum annealing machine has been built that minimizes the cost function of hard optimization problems by adiabatically quenching quantum fluctuations. Te…

cond-mat.dis-nn2013★ 8 cited

Stability of topologically-protected quantum computing proposals as seen through spin glasses

Helmut G. Katzgraber, Ruben S. Andrist

Sensitivity to noise makes most of the current quantum computing schemes prone to error and nonscalable, allowing only for small proof-of-principle devices. Topologically-protected…

cond-mat.dis-nn2012★ 24 cited

Self-Organized Criticality in Glassy Spin Systems Requires a Diverging Number of Neighbors

Juan Carlos Andresen, Zheng Zhu, Ruben S. Andrist +3

We investigate the conditions required for general spin systems with frustration and disorder to display self-organized criticality, a property which so far has been established on…

quant-ph2012★ 26 cited

Optimal error correction in topological subsystem codes

Ruben S. Andrist, H. Bombin, Helmut G. Katzgraber +1

A promising approach to overcome decoherence in quantum computing schemes is to perform active quantum error correction using topology. Topological subsystem codes incorporate both…

quant-ph2012★ 149 cited

Strong Resilience of Topological Codes to Depolarization

H. Bombin, Ruben S. Andrist, Masayuki Ohzeki +2

The inevitable presence of decoherence effects in systems suitable for quantum computation necessitates effective error-correction schemes to protect information from noise. We com…

cond-mat.dis-nn2010★ 3 cited

Evidence of a glass transition in a 10-state non-mean-field Potts glass

Ruben S. Andrist, Derek Larson, Helmut G. Katzgraber

Potts glasses are prototype models that have been used to understand the structural glass transition. However, in finite space dimensions a glass transition remains to be detected…

quant-ph2010★ 50 cited

Tricolored Lattice Gauge Theory with Randomness: Fault-Tolerance in Topological Color Codes

Ruben S. Andrist, Helmut G. Katzgraber, H. Bombin +1

We compute the error threshold of color codes, a class of topological quantum codes that allow a direct implementation of quantum Clifford gates, when both qubit and measurement er…

quant-ph2009★ 31 cited

Topological color codes on Union Jack lattices: A stable implementation of the whole Clifford group

Helmut G. Katzgraber, H. Bombin, Ruben S. Andrist +1

We study the error threshold of topological color codes on Union Jack lattices that allow for the full implementation of the whole Clifford group of quantum gates. After mapping th…