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most citedA Hybrid Solution Method for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem Using a Quantum Annealer

191 citations · 404 across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

IF-QAOA: A Penalty-Free Approach to Accelerating Constrained Quantum Optimization

David Bucher, Jonas Stein, Sebastian Feld +1

Traditional methods for handling (inequality) constraints in the Quantum Approximate Optimization Ansatz (QAOA) typically rely on penalty terms and slack variables, which increase…

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

Reducing QAOA Circuit Depth by Factoring out Semi-Symmetries

Jonas Nüßlein, Leo Sünkel, Jonas Stein +4

QAOA is a quantum algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems. It is capable of searching for the minimizing solution vector of a QUBO problem . The number…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Solving Max-3SAT Using QUBO Approximation

Sebastian Zielinski, Jonas Nüßlein, Michael Kölle +3

As contemporary quantum computers do not possess error correction, any calculation performed by these devices can be considered an involuntary approximation. To solve a problem on…

quant-ph2024

Using an Evolutionary Algorithm to Create (MAX)-3SAT QUBOs

Sebastian Zielinski, Maximilian Zorn, Thomas Gabor +2

A common way of solving satisfiability instances with quantum methods is to transform these instances into instances of QUBO, which in itself is a potentially difficult and expensi…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Challenges for Reinforcement Learning in Quantum Circuit Design

Philipp Altmann, Jonas Stein, Michael Kölle +5

Quantum computing (QC) in the current NISQ era is still limited in size and precision. Hybrid applications mitigating those shortcomings are prevalent to gain early insight and adv…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

qgym: A Gym for Training and Benchmarking RL-Based Quantum Compilation

Stan van der Linde, Willem de Kok, Tariq Bontekoe +1

Compiling a quantum circuit for specific quantum hardware is a challenging task. Moreover, current quantum computers have severe hardware limitations. To make the most use of the l…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Approximative lookup-tables and arbitrary function rotations for facilitating NISQ-implementations of the HHL and beyond

Petros Stougiannidis, Jonas Stein, David Bucher +3

Many promising applications of quantum computing with a provable speedup center around the HHL algorithm. Due to restrictions on the hardware and its significant demand on qubits a…

quant-ph2023★ 34 cited

Mapping quantum circuits to modular architectures with QUBO

Medina Bandic, Luise Prielinger, Jonas Nüßlein +8

Modular quantum computing architectures are a promising alternative to monolithic QPU (Quantum Processing Unit) designs for scaling up quantum devices. They refer to a set of inter…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

Pattern QUBOs: Algorithmic construction of 3SAT-to-QUBO transformations

Sebastian Zielinski, Jonas Nüßlein, Jonas Stein +3

3SAT instances need to be transformed into instances of Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) to be solved on a quantum annealer. Although it has been shown that the c…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Low-Depth Flag-Style Syndrome Extraction for Small Quantum Error-Correction Codes

Dhruv Bhatnagar, Matthew Steinberg, David Elkouss +2

Flag-style fault-tolerance has become a linchpin in the realization of small fault-tolerant quantum-error correction experiments. The flag protocol's utility hinges on low qubit ov…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Influence of Different 3SAT-to-QUBO Transformations on the Solution Quality of Quantum Annealing: A Benchmark Study

Sebastian Zielinski, Jonas Nüßlein, Jonas Stein +3

To solve 3SAT instances on quantum annealers they need to be transformed to an instance of Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO). When there are multiple transformatio…

quant-ph2023★ 20 cited

Holographic Codes from Hyperinvariant Tensor Networks

Matthew Steinberg, Sebastian Feld, Alexander Jahn

Holographic quantum-error correcting codes are models of bulk/boundary dualities such as the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, where a higher-dimensio…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Mapping quantum algorithms to multi-core quantum computing architectures

Anabel Ovide, Santiago Rodrigo, Medina Bandic +5

Current monolithic quantum computer architectures have limited scalability. One promising approach for scaling them up is to use a modular or multi-core architecture, in which diff…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Solving (Max) 3-SAT via Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization

Jonas Nüßlein, Sebastian Zielinski, Thomas Gabor +2

We introduce a novel approach to translate arbitrary 3-SAT instances to Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) as they are used by quantum annealing (QA) or the quantum…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Clever Design, Unexpected Obstacles: Insights on Implementing a Quantum Boltzmann Machine

Felix Paul, Michael Falkenthal, Sebastian Feld

We have implemented a gated-based quantum version of a restricted Boltzmann machine for approximating the ground state of a Pauli-decomposed qubit Hamiltonian. During the implement…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

SpinQ: Compilation strategies for scalable spin-qubit architectures

Nikiforos Paraskevopoulos, Fabio Sebastiano, Carmen G. Almudever +1

Despite NISQ devices being severely constrained, hardware- and algorithm-aware quantum circuit mapping techniques have been developed to enable successful algorithm executions. Not…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

NISQ-ready community detection based on separation-node identification

Jonas Stein, Dominik Ott, Jonas Nüßlein +3

The analysis of network structure is essential to many scientific areas, ranging from biology to sociology. As the computational task of clustering these networks into partitions,…

quant-ph2022★ 28 cited

Interaction graph-based characterization of quantum benchmarks for improving quantum circuit mapping techniques

Medina Bandić, Carmen G. Almudever, Sebastian Feld

To execute quantum circuits on a quantum processor, they must be modified to meet the physical constraints of the quantum device. This process, called quantum circuit mapping, resu…

cs.ET2022★ 8 cited

Characterizing Qubit Traffic of a Quantum Intranet aiming at Modular Quantum Computers

Santiago Rodrigo, Domenico Spanò, Medina Bandic +6

Quantum many-core processors are envisioned as the ultimate solution for the scalability of quantum computers. Based upon Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) chips interconnect…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Black Box Optimization Using QUBO and the Cross Entropy Method

Jonas Nüßlein, Christoph Roch, Thomas Gabor +3

Black-box optimization (BBO) can be used to optimize functions whose analytic form is unknown. A common approach to realising BBO is to learn a surrogate model which approximates t…

cs.DS2022★ 18 cited

Algorithmic QUBO Formulations for k-SAT and Hamiltonian Cycles

Jonas Nüßlein, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien +1

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) can be seen as a generic language for optimization problems. QUBOs attract particular attention since they can be solved with qua…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

How to Approximate any Objective Function via Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization

Thomas Gabor, Marian Lingsch Rosenfeld, Sebastian Feld +1

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) has become the standard format for optimization using quantum computers, i.e., for both the quantum approximate optimization algo…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Full-stack quantum computing systems in the NISQ era: algorithm-driven and hardware-aware compilation techniques

Medina Bandic, Sebastian Feld, Carmen G. Almudever

The progress in developing quantum hardware with functional quantum processors integrating tens of noisy qubits, together with the availability of near-term quantum algorithms has…