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most citedAlignment between Initial State and Mixer Improves QAOA Performance for Constrained Optimization

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17 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…

quant-ph2026

Regularized Warm-Started Quantum Approximate Optimization and Conditions for Surpassing Classical Solvers on the Max-Cut Problem

Zichang He, Anuj Apte, Brandon Augustino +4

Demonstrating quantum heuristics that outperform strong classical solvers on large-scale optimization remains an open challenge. Here we introduce Regularized Warm-Started QAOA (RW…

quant-ph2026

Fault-tolerant execution of error-corrected quantum algorithms

Michael A. Perlin, Zichang He, Anthony Alexiades Armenakas +9

Scaling up quantum algorithms to tackle high-impact problems in science and industry requires quantum error correction and fault tolerance. While progress has been made in experime…

quant-ph2026

Digital signatures with classical shadows on near-term quantum computers

Pradeep Niroula, Minzhao Liu, Sivaprasad Omanakuttan +15

Quantum mechanics provides cryptographic primitives whose security is grounded in hardness assumptions independent of those underlying classical cryptography. However, existing pro…

quant-ph2025

Certified randomness amplification by dynamically probing remote random quantum states

Minzhao Liu, Pradeep Niroula, Matthew DeCross +49

Cryptography depends on truly unpredictable numbers, but physical sources emit biased or correlated bits. Quantum mechanics enables the amplification of imperfect randomness into n…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Threshold for Fault-tolerant Quantum Advantage with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Zichang He, Zhiwei Zhang +9

Optimization is often cited as a promising application of quantum computers. However, the low degree of provable quantum speedups has led prior rigorous end-to-end resource analyse…

quant-ph2025

Iceberg Beyond the Tip: Co-Compilation of a Quantum Error Detection Code and a Quantum Algorithm

Yuwei Jin, Zichang He, Tianyi Hao +5

The rapid progress in quantum hardware is expected to make them viable tools for the study of quantum algorithms in the near term. The timeline to useful algorithmic experimentatio…

quant-ph2025

Iterative Interpolation Schedules for Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Anuj Apte, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Ruslan Shaydulin +5

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a promising quantum heuristic with empirical evidence of speedup over classical state-of-the-art for some problems. QAOA uses a…

quant-ph2025★ 19 cited

Tensor networks for quantum computing

Aleksandr Berezutskii, Minzhao Liu, Atithi Acharya +25

In the rapidly evolving field of quantum computing, tensor networks serve as an important tool due to their multifaceted utility. In this paper, we review the diverse applications…

quant-ph2025

Non-Variational Quantum Random Access Optimization with Alternating Operator Ansatz

Zichang He, Rudy Raymond, Ruslan Shaydulin +1

Solving hard optimization problems is one of the most promising application domains for quantum computers due to the ubiquity of such problems in industry and the availability of b…

quant-ph2024

Generalized Short Path Algorithms: Towards Super-Quadratic Speedup over Markov Chain Search for Combinatorial Optimization

Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul +6

We analyze generalizations of quantum algorithms based on the short path framework first proposed by Hastings~[\textit{Quantum} 2, 78 (2018)], which has been extended and shown by…

quant-ph2024★ 9 cited

Performance of Quantum Approximate Optimization with Quantum Error Detection

Zichang He, David Amaro, Ruslan Shaydulin +1

Quantum algorithms must be scaled up to tackle real-world applications. Doing so requires overcoming the noise present on today's hardware. The quantum approximate optimization alg…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Parameter Setting Heuristics Make the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Suitable for the Early Fault-Tolerant Era

Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Dylan Herman +4

Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is one of the most promising quantum heuristics for combinatorial optimization. While QAOA has been shown to perform well on small…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

End-to-End Protocol for High-Quality QAOA Parameters with Few Shots

Tianyi Hao, Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin +2

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a quantum heuristic for combinatorial optimization that has been demonstrated to scale better than state-of-the-art classic…

quant-ph2024

Variational Quantum Algorithm Landscape Reconstruction by Low-Rank Tensor Completion

Tianyi Hao, Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin +2

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are a broad class of algorithms with many applications in science and industry. Applying a VQA to a problem involves optimizing a parameterize…

quant-ph2023★ 47 cited

Alignment between Initial State and Mixer Improves QAOA Performance for Constrained Optimization

Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti +4

Quantum alternating operator ansatz (QAOA) has a strong connection to the adiabatic algorithm, which it can approximate with sufficient depth. However, it is unclear to what extent…

quant-ph2017★ 14 cited

Enabling the self-contained refrigerator to work beyond its limits by filtering the reservoir

Zi-chen He, Xin-Yun huang, Chang-shui Yu

In this paper, we study the quantum self-contained refrigerator [N. Linden, S. Popescu and P. Skrzypczyk, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{105}, 130401 (2010)] in the strong internal coupl…