Quantum Computation
Last updated on
May 18, 2020

Quantum computers show the potential of outperforming classical computers in a variety of applications. We are interested in developing algorithms for solving relevant practical problems, ranging from the simulation of quantum many-body systems to the solution of NP-complete optimization problems. Besides gate-based quantum computers, we also investigate adiabatic quantum optimization and quantum annealing.





Publications
Sampling Rare Conformational Transitions with a Quantum Computer
Spontaneous structural rearrangements play a central role in the organization and function of complex biomolecular systems. In …
arXiv:2201.11781 [quant-ph]
(2022)
Polymer Physics by Quantum Computing
Sampling equilibrium ensembles of dense polymer mixtures is a paradigmatically hard problem in computational physics, even in …
arXiv:2104.10102 [cond-mat.soft]
(2021)
Dominant Reaction Pathways by Quantum Computing
Characterizing thermally activated transitions in high-dimensional rugged energy surfaces is a very challenging task for classical …
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 028104
(2021)
Perspectives of quantum annealing: Methods and implementations
Quantum annealing is a computing paradigm that has the ambitious goal of efficiently solving large-scale combinatorial optimization …
Rep. Prog. Phys. 83 054401
(2020)
Quantum localization bounds Trotter errors in digital quantum simulation
A fundamental challenge in digital quantum simulation (DQS) is the control of an inherent error, which appears when discretizing the …
Sci. Adv. 2019;5:eaau8342
(2019)
Real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories with a few-qubit quantum computer
Gauge theories are fundamental to our understanding of interactions between the elementary constituents of matter as mediated …
Esteban A. Martinez, Christine A. Muschik, Philipp Schindler, Daniel Nigg, Alexander Erhard, Markus Heyl, Philipp Hauke, Marcello Dalmonte, Thomas Monz, Peter Zoller, Rainer Blatt
Nature 534, 516–519
(2016)
A quantum annealing architecture with all-to-all connectivity from local interactions
Quantum annealers are physical devices that aim at solving NP-complete optimization problems by exploiting quantum mechanics. The basic …
Sci. Adv. 2015;1:e1500838
(2015)
Talks
Mirradio - Le chicche di Mirradio: Puntata 1 | Quantum Computing
Di quantum computing si sente parlare da un po’ di tempo, ma non sempre viene presentato con chiarezza.
Per raccontarlo come si deve, …
May 12, 2021