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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
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23 Pages

9 February 2026

The computational complexity, or quantum advantage, of Gaussian boson sampling is ascribed to squeezing of the Wigner quasiprobability distribution. This approach reveals the physical origin of the quantum complexity resource. This approach sets an e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fundamentals and Applications of Quantum Information and Quantum Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,529 Views
9 Pages

Asymmetric Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution through Advantage Distillation

  • Kailu Zhang,
  • Jingyang Liu,
  • Huajian Ding,
  • Xingyu Zhou and ,
  • Chunhui Zhang and
  • Qin Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 August 2023

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) completely closes the security loopholes caused by the imperfection of devices at the detection terminal. Commonly, a symmetric MDI-QKD model is widely used in simulations and experime...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Quantum Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
13,264 Views
76 Pages

15 August 2019

Query complexity is a common tool for comparing quantum and classical computation, and it has produced many examples of how quantum algorithms differ from classical ones. Here we investigate in detail the role that oracles play for the advantage of q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
494 Views
47 Pages

We propose a structural framework for interpreting quantum computational advantage in terms of admissible continuation of configurations. In this framework, a quantum computation is described not only as a sequence of gates acting on a state vector b...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Computing and Information Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,759 Views
25 Pages

A Review on Pulsed Laser Preparation of Quantum Dots in Colloids for the Optimization of Perovskite Solar Cells: Advantages, Challenges, and Prospects

  • Liang Sun,
  • Yang Li,
  • Jiujiang Yan,
  • Wei Xu and ,
  • Liangfen Xiao,
  • Zhong Zheng,
  • Ke Liu,
  • Zhijie Huang and
  • Shuhan Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

25 September 2024

In recent years, academic research on perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has attracted remarkable attention, and one of the most crucial issues is promoting the power conversion efficiency (PCE) and operational stability of PSCs. Generally, modification o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing the Sustainable Application of Nanostructured Materials in Solar Cells)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,513 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2022

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has not yet demonstrated extensively and clearly its advantages compared to the classical machine learning approach. So far, there are only specific cases where some quantum-inspired techniques have achieved small incre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Machine Learning 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,191 Views
9 Pages

26 November 2021

Recently, Schmid and Spekkens studied the quantum contextuality in terms of state discrimination. By dealing with the minimum error discrimination of two quantum states with identical prior probabilities, they reported that quantum contextual advanta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Mechanics and Its Foundations II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,326 Views
13 Pages

Phase Coordinate Uncomputation in Quantum Recursive Fourier Sampling

  • Christoffer Hindlycke,
  • Niklas Johansson and
  • Jan-Åke Larsson

2 June 2025

Recursive Fourier Sampling (RFS) was one of the earliest problems to demonstrate a quantum advantage, and is known to lie outside the Merlin–Arthur complexity class. This work contains a new description of quantum algorithms in phase space term...

(This article belongs to the Topic Quantum Information and Quantum Computing, 2nd Volume)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access

Quantum Machine Learning: An Experimental Survey

  • Erasmo Rivas,
  • James Resto,
  • Luis Rodriguez,
  • Khalil Dajani and
  • Nabeel Alzahrani

12 November 2026

Quantum machine learning (QML) is advancing rapidly, yet it remains unclear which artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities benefit from quantum approaches, how strong the supporting evidence is, and whether reported gains justify claims of practical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Integration of Quantum Computing with Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
600 Views
30 Pages

Quantum Algorithms for Trading: A Survey of Speedups, Thresholds, and Dequantization

  • Luigi Laura,
  • Marco Parrillo,
  • Alessio Pascucci,
  • Marco Rossi and
  • Valerio Rughetti

17 September 2026

Quantum algorithms for trading span computational tasks with different input models and standards of evidence. This structured critical review describes its search scope, selection criteria and limitations, and distinguishes reported findings from au...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surveys in Information Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,916 Views
11 Pages

Hybrid Boson Sampling

  • Vitaly Kocharovsky

30 October 2024

We propose boson sampling from a system of coupled photons and Bose–Einstein condensed atoms placed inside a multi-mode cavity as a simulation process testing the quantum advantage of quantum systems over classical computers. Consider a two-lev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,520 Views
15 Pages

Simon’s Algorithm in the NISQ Cloud

  • Reece Robertson,
  • Emery Doucet,
  • Ernest Spicer and
  • Sebastian Deffner

20 June 2025

Simon’s algorithm was one of the first to demonstrate a genuine quantum advantage in solving a problem. The algorithm, however, assumes access to fault-tolerant qubits. In our work, we use Simon’s algorithm to benchmark the error rates of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,076 Views
34 Pages

Multi-Qubit Bose–Einstein Condensate Trap for Atomic Boson Sampling

  • Sergey Tarasov,
  • William Shannon,
  • Vladimir Kocharovsky and
  • Vitaly Kocharovsky

3 December 2022

We propose a multi-qubit Bose–Einstein-condensate (BEC) trap as a platform for studies of quantum statistical phenomena in many-body interacting systems. In particular, it could facilitate testing atomic boson sampling of the excited-state occupation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Quantum Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,655 Views
19 Pages

17 February 2023

In this article, we show that a quantum gas, a collection of massive, non-interacting, indistinguishable quantum particles, can be realized as a thermodynamic machine as an artifact of energy quantization and, hence, bears no classical analog. Such a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
553 Views
13 Pages

30 June 2026

We introduce the energy-advantage frontier of random circuit sampling (RCS)—the locus in the noise-rate/size plane where the classical and quantum energy-to-solution are equal—and locate it relative to the noise-induced classical-simulabi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Quantum Information and Quantum Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,933 Views
20 Pages

Kinetic Determination of Acetylsalicylic Acid Using a CdTe/AgInS2 Photoluminescence Probe and Different Chemometric Models

  • Rafael C. Castro,
  • Ricardo N. M. J. Páscoa,
  • M. Lúcia M. F. S. Saraiva,
  • João L. M. Santos and
  • David S. M. Ribeiro

30 March 2023

The combination of multiple quantum dots (QDs) in a multi-emitter nanoprobe can be envisaged as a promising sensing scheme, as it enables obtaining a collective response of individual emitters towards a given analyte and allows for achieving specific...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrochemiluminescence Biosensors for Imaging or Detection of Biomarkers, Virus, Bacteria, and Metal Ions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,962 Views
14 Pages

Quantum Advantages of Teleportation and Dense Coding Protocols in an Open System

  • Saeed Haddadi,
  • Maryam Hadipour,
  • Soroush Haseli,
  • Atta Ur Rahman and
  • Artur Czerwinski

14 March 2023

Quantum teleportation and dense coding are well-known quantum protocols that have been widely explored in the field of quantum computing. In this paper, the efficiency of quantum teleportation and dense coding protocols is examined in two-level atoms...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Perspectives on Quantum Computing and Communication)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,785 Views
19 Pages

4 February 2026

Perovskite quantum dots (PeQDs) are highly promising luminescent materials for next-generation displays owing to their excellent optoelectronic properties, such as narrow emission linewidth, high photoluminescence quantum yield, tunable bandgap, and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,545 Views
18 Pages

Quantum Dot Applications Using Kinetic Data: A Promising Approach for Enhanced Analytical Determinations

  • Rafael C. Castro,
  • Ricardo N. M. J. Páscoa,
  • David S. M. Ribeiro and
  • João L. M. Santos

5 March 2025

The acquisition of kinetic data in QD-based PL sensing methodologies has been revealed to be an auspicious alternative in applying these nanomaterials in analytical chemistry, enabling enhanced discrimination and quantification of analytes, even in c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biosensors for Monitoring and Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,263 Views
11 Pages

Quantum Advantages of Communication Complexity from Bell Nonlocality

  • Zhih-Ahn Jia,
  • Lu Wei,
  • Yu-Chun Wu and
  • Guang-Can Guo

13 June 2021

Communication games are crucial tools for investigating the limitations of physical theories. The communication complexity (CC) problem is a typical example, for which several distributed parties attempt to jointly calculate a given function with lim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,691 Views
12 Pages

12 August 2022

The effect of a reservoir on quantum communication depends on its spectral density. The efficiency of quantum teleportation and dense coding is explored when each one of the channel qubits is coupled simultaneously to multiple bosonic reservoirs. It...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computing for Complex Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,418 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2021

The unprecedented success of classical neural networks and the recent advances in quantum computing have motivated the research community to explore the interplay between these two technologies, leading to the so-called quantum neural networks. In fa...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,063 Views
13 Pages

Quantum-Enhanced Generalized Pattern Search Optimization

  • Colton Mikes,
  • David Huckleberry Gutman and
  • Victoria E. Howle

29 September 2024

While the development of quantum computers promises a myriad of advantages over their classical counterparts, care must be taken when designing algorithms that substitute a classical technique with a potentially advantageous quantum method. The proba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,741 Views
18 Pages

Finite Key Size Analysis of Two-Way Quantum Cryptography

  • Jesni Shamsul Shaari and
  • Stefano Mancini

30 April 2015

Quantum cryptographic protocols solve the longstanding problem of distributing a shared secret string to two distant users by typically making use of one-way quantum channel. However, alternative protocols exploiting two-way quantum channel have been...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,259 Views
21 Pages

Variational Quantum Circuits for Machine Learning. An Application for the Detection of Weak Signals

  • Israel Griol-Barres,
  • Sergio Milla,
  • Antonio Cebrián,
  • Yashar Mansoori and
  • José Millet

12 July 2021

Quantum computing is a new paradigm for a multitude of computing applications. This study presents the technologies that are currently available for the physical implementation of qubits and quantum gates, establishing their main advantages and disad...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,981 Views
149 Pages

A Technical Review of Quantum Computing Use Cases for Finance and Economics

  • Manqoba Q. Hlatshwayo,
  • Manav Babel,
  • Dalila Islas-Sanchez and
  • Konstantinos Georgopoulos

Quantum computing has been rapidly evolving as a field, with innovations driven by industry, academia, and government institutions. The technology has the potential to accelerate computation for solving complex problems across multiple industrial sec...

(This article belongs to the Topic Quantum Computing: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,576 Views
22 Pages

10 February 2024

In recent years, many works have explored possible advantages of indefinite causal order, with the main focus on its controlled implementation known as quantum switch. In this paper, we tackle advantages in quantum thermodynamics, studying whether qu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Quantum Thermodynamics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,083 Views
19 Pages

Complex Systems in Phase Space

  • David K. Ferry,
  • Mihail Nedjalkov,
  • Josef Weinbub,
  • Mauro Ballicchia and ,
  • Ian Welland and
  • Siegfried Selberherr
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 September 2020

The continued reduction of semiconductor device feature sizes towards the single-digit nanometer regime involves a variety of quantum effects. Modeling quantum effects in phase space in terms of the Wigner transport equation has evolved to be a very...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transport and Diffusion in Quantum Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,753 Views
27 Pages

1 September 2022

Quantum Fisher Information is considered in Quantum Information literature as the main resource to determine a bound in the parametric characterization problem of a quantum channel by means of probe states. The parameters characterizing a quantum cha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physics and Symmetry Section: Feature Papers 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,732 Views
17 Pages

4 August 2025

Quantum finance, as a key application scenario of quantum computing, showcases multiple significant advantages of quantum machine learning over traditional machine learning methods. This paper first aims to overcome the limitations of the hidden quan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Computational Finance and Computational Intelligence in Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,240 Views
17 Pages

Communication networks are managed more and more by using artificial intelligence. Anomaly detection, network monitoring and user behaviour are areas where machine learning offers advantages over more traditional methods. However, computer power is i...

(This article belongs to the Section Cloud Continuum and Enabled Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,281 Views
10 Pages

Metasurface-Based Quantum Searcher on a Silicon-On-Insulator Chip

  • Zeyong Wei,
  • Haoyu Li,
  • Linyuan Dou,
  • Lingyun Xie and ,
  • Zhanshan Wang and
  • Xinbin Cheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 July 2022

Optical analog computing has natural advantages of parallel computation, high speed and low energy consumption over traditional digital computing. To date, research in the field of on-chip optical analog computing has mainly focused on classical math...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tunable Nanophotonics and Reconfigurable Metadevices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,307 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2024

Quantum annealers are suited to solve several logistic optimization problems expressed in the QUBO formulation. However, the solutions proposed by the quantum annealers are generally not optimal, as thermal noise and other disturbing effects arise wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
911 Views
8 Pages

Design of a Fault-Tolerant BCD to Excess-3 Code Converter Using Clifford+T Quantum Gates

  • Sandip Das,
  • Shankar Prasad Mitra,
  • Sushmita Chaudhari and
  • Riya Sen

4 February 2026

Quantum computing has the potential to transform modern computation by offering exponential advantages in areas such as cryptography, optimization, and intelligent data processing. To effectively realize these advantages, particularly in fault-tolera...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 6th International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,420 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2020

In this paper, we investigate the problem of estimating the phase of a coherent state in the presence of unavoidable noisy quantum states. These unwarranted quantum states are represented by outlier quantum states in this study. We first present a st...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
14,393 Views
25 Pages

Quantum Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Raffaele Guarasci,
  • Giuseppe De Pietro and
  • Massimo Esposito

2 June 2022

The meeting between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Quantum Computing has been very successful in recent years, leading to the development of several approaches of the so-called Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP). This is a hybrid field...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence Methods for Natural Language Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,310 Views
25 Pages

Research Progress on Quantum Dot-Embedded Polymer Films and Plates for LCD Backlight Display

  • Bin Xu,
  • Jiankang Zhou,
  • Chengran Zhang,
  • Yunfu Chang and
  • Zhengtao Deng

17 January 2025

Abstract: Quantum dot–polymer composites have the advantages of high luminescent quantum yield (PLQY), narrow emission half-peak full width (FWHM), and tunable emission spectra, and have broad application prospects in display and lighting field...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polymers/Their Hybrid Materials for Optoelectronic Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,449 Views
14 Pages

24 January 2020

The long-term goal of our research is to develop a powerful quantum logic which is useful in the formal verification of quantum programs and protocols. In this paper we introduce the basic idea of our categorical logic of quantum programs (CLQP): It...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,336 Views
3 Pages

Molecular beam epitaxy technology has a significant advantage in semiconductor technology due to its strong controllability, especially for the preparation of materials such as quantum wires and quantum dots [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,862 Views
18 Pages

Quantum illumination (QI) is an entanglement-based protocol for improving LiDAR/radar detection of unresolved targets beyond what a classical LiDAR/radar of the same average transmitted energy can do. Originally proposed by Seth Lloyd as a discrete-v...

(This article belongs to the Section Atomic Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,948 Views
16 Pages

Quantum Circuit Architecture Search on a Superconducting Processor

  • Kehuan Linghu,
  • Yang Qian,
  • Ruixia Wang,
  • Meng-Jun Hu and ,
  • Zhiyuan Li,
  • Xuegang Li,
  • Huikai Xu,
  • Jingning Zhang,
  • Teng Ma and
  • Haifeng Yu
  • + 12 authors+ 7 authors

26 November 2024

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have shown strong evidence to gain provable computational advantages in diverse fields such as finance, machine learning, and chemistry. However, the heuristic ansatz exploited in modern VQAs is incapable of bala...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information: Working Towards Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,024 Views
16 Pages

Fisher Information as General Metrics of Quantum Synchronization

  • Yuan Shen,
  • Hong Yi Soh,
  • Leong-Chuan Kwek and
  • Weijun Fan

26 July 2023

Quantum synchronization has emerged as a crucial phenomenon in quantum nonlinear dynamics with potential applications in quantum information processing. Multiple measures for quantifying quantum synchronization exist. However, there is currently no w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information: From Fundamental Aspects to Practical Applications)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,070 Views
10 Pages

Wigner Functions

  • Michael te Vrugt

Wigner functions are a distribution function on phase space that allow to represent the state of a quantum-mechanical system. They are in many ways similar to classical phase space probability distributions, but can, in contrast to these, be negative...

(This article belongs to the Collection Applications of Quantum Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,968 Views
18 Pages

29 June 2022

As a universal quantum computer requires millions of error-corrected qubits, one of the current goals is to exploit the power of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Based on a NISQ module–layered circuit, we propose a heuristic pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computing for Complex Dynamics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,886 Views
9 Pages

Robust Quantum State Tomography Method for Quantum Sensing

  • Ahmad Farooq,
  • Uman Khalid,
  • Junaid ur Rehman and
  • Hyundong Shin

30 March 2022

Reliable and efficient reconstruction of pure quantum states under the processing of noisy measurement data is a vital tool in fundamental and applied quantum information sciences owing to communication, sensing, and computing. Specifically, the puri...

(This article belongs to the Section State-of-the-Art Sensors Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,532 Views
25 Pages

17 March 2021

Inferring algorithmic structure in data is essential for discovering causal generative models. In this research, we present a quantum computing framework using the circuit model, for estimating algorithmic information metrics. The canonical computati...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,081 Views
3 Pages

25 September 2023

Considering the unique advantages of the quantum size, volume, surface, and macroscopical quantum tunnel effects, nanomaterials have been paid increasing attention for various applications in environmental, medical, biological, and chemical analyses...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Functional Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,627 Views
34 Pages

Study on Quantum Radar Detection Probability Based on Flying-Wing Stealth Aircraft

  • Shaoze Lu,
  • Zhijun Meng,
  • Jun Huang,
  • Mingxu Yi and
  • Zeyang Wang

9 August 2022

The development of quantum radar technology presents a challenge to stealth targets, so it is necessary to study the quantum detection probability. In this study, an analytical expression of the quantum radar cross section (QRCS) for complex targets...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,912 Views
15 Pages

28 April 2022

This paper provides an overview of quantum dynamic logics, showing how they have been designed and illustrating how these logics can be applied to verify the correctness of quantum protocols. Similar to the advantages of using dynamic logics to reaso...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,223 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Advances in Phase Estimation with Photonic Quantum States

  • Laura T. Knoll,
  • Agustina G. Magnoni and
  • Miguel A. Larotonda

1 July 2025

Photonic quantum metrology has emerged as a leading platform for quantum-enhanced precision measurements. By taking advantage of quantum resources such as entanglement, quantum metrology enables parameter estimation with sensitivities surpassing clas...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

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