Challenges and opportunities in quantum optimization

A Abbas, A Ambainis, B Augustino, A Bärtschi… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum computers have demonstrable ability to solve problems at a scale beyond brute-
force classical simulation. Interest in quantum algorithms has developed in many areas …

Neutral atom quantum computing hardware: performance and end-user perspective

K Wintersperger, F Dommert, T Ehmer… - EPJ Quantum …, 2023 - epjqt.epj.org
We present an industrial end-user perspective on the current state of quantum computing
hardware for one specific technological approach, the neutral atom platform. Our aim is to …

Benchmarking quantum computers

T Proctor, K Young, AD Baczewski… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
The rapid pace of development in quantum computing technology has sparked a
proliferation of benchmarks to assess the performance of quantum computing hardware and …

Optimization applications as quantum performance benchmarks

T Lubinski, C Coffrin, C McGeoch, P Sathe… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Combinatorial optimization is anticipated to be one of the primary use cases for quantum
computation in the coming years. The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and …

MQT Bench: Benchmarking software and design automation tools for quantum computing

N Quetschlich, L Burgholzer, R Wille - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
Quantum software tools for a wide variety of design tasks on and across different levels of
abstraction are crucial in order to eventually realize useful quantum applications. This …

Quantum optimization: Potential, challenges, and the path forward

A Abbas, A Ambainis, B Augustino, A Bärtschi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in quantum computers are demonstrating the ability to solve problems at a
scale beyond brute force classical simulation. As such, a widespread interest in quantum …

Benchmarking quantum processor performance at scale

DC McKay, I Hincks, EJ Pritchett, M Carroll… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As quantum processors grow, new performance benchmarks are required to capture the full
quality of the devices at scale. While quantum volume is an excellent benchmark, it focuses …

cuQuantum SDK: A high-performance library for accelerating quantum science

H Bayraktar, A Charara, D Clark… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the NVIDIA cuQuantum SDK [1], a state-of-the-art library of composable
primitives for GPU-accelerated quantum circuit simulations. As the size of quantum devices …

HamLib: A library of Hamiltonians for benchmarking quantum algorithms and hardware

NPD Sawaya, D Marti-Dafcik, Y Ho, DP Tabor… - Quantum, 2024 - quantum-journal.org
In order to characterize and benchmark computational hardware, software, and algorithms, it
is essential to have many problem instances on-hand. This is no less true for quantum …

Designing quantum annealing schedules using Bayesian optimization

JR Finžgar, MJA Schuetz, JK Brubaker, H Nishimori… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We propose and analyze the use of Bayesian optimization techniques to design quantum
annealing schedules with minimal user and resource requirements. We showcase our …