Throughout the centuries, nature has been a source of inspiration, with much still to learn
from and discover about. Among many others, Swarm Intelligence (SI), a substantial branch …

The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE), first developed by Peruzzo et al.(2014), has
received significant attention from the research community in recent years. It uses the …

Magnetic resonance techniques are successfully utilized in a broad range of scientific
disciplines and in various practical applications, with medical magnetic resonance imaging …

Over the past several decades, quantum information science has emerged to seek answers
to the question: can we gain some advantage by storing, transmitting and processing …

Qudit is a multi-level computational unit alternative to the conventional 2-level qubit.
Compared to qubit, qudit provides a larger state space to store and process information, and …

Quantum computing (QC) is an emerging paradigm with the potential to offer significant
computational advantage over conventional classical computing by exploiting quantum …

A quantum computer can solve hard problems, such as prime factoring,, database
searching, and quantum simulation, at the cost of needing to protect fragile quantum states …

Background Elliptic curve cryptographic schemes were proposed independently in 1985 by
Neal Koblitz (Koblitz 1987) and Victor Miller (Miller 1986). They are the elliptic curve …

The transformation of digital computers from bulky machines to portable systems has been
enabled by new materials and advanced processing technologies that allow ultrahigh …

Now that it is possible to achieve measurement and control fidelities for individual quantum
bits (qubits) above the threshold for fault tolerance, attention is moving towards the difficult …