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20242026
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9 papers

quant-ph2026

The trainability of photonic quantum circuits

Alexander Makarovskiy, Adam Taylor, Zhenghao Li +5

Variational quantum algorithms are a leading approach to near-term quantum computing, but their scalability can be limited by barren plateaus and the sampling cost of resolving sma…

quant-ph2026

Improving the loss threshold for quantum advantage in photonic sensors by complete photon counting

Gerard J. Machado, Yazeed K. Alwehaibi, Guillaume Thekkadath +9

Tolerance to imperfections is a defining performance criterion for quantum sensors. The threshold for achieving a quantum advantage depends on the input state, sensor configuration…

quant-ph2026

Displaced Gaussian Boson Sampling for enhanced max-clique search

Ewan Mer, Zhenghao Li, Shang Yu +2

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is capable of solving certain classes of graph problems owing to the samples produced by such a device having a connection to the hafnian matrix funct…

quant-ph2026

Photonic Quantum-Enhanced Knowledge Distillation

Kuan-Cheng Chen, Shang Yu, Chen-Yu Liu +10

Photonic quantum processors naturally produce intrinsically stochastic measurement outcomes, offering a hardware-native source of structured randomness that can be exploited during…

quant-ph2026

Machine learning of quantum data using optimal similarity measurements

Zhenghao Li, Hao Zhan, Shana H. Winston +11

Quantum machine learning seeks a computational advantage in data processing by evaluating functions of quantum states, such as their similarity, that can be classically intractable…

quant-ph2026

Extensible universal photonic quantum computing with nonlinearity

Shang Yu, Jinzhao Sun, Kuan-Cheng Chen +17

Universal quantum computing requires an architecture that supports both linear circuits and, crucially, strong nonlinear resources. For quantum photonic systems, integrating such n…