Quantum key distribution (QKD) constitutes a symmetric secret key negotiation protocol
capable of maintaining information-theoretic security. Given the recent advances in QKD …

Quantum annealing (QA) is a heuristic quantum optimization algorithm that can be used to
solve combinatorial optimization problems. In recent years, advances in quantum …

Quantum computing aims at exploiting quantum phenomena to efficiently perform
computations that are unfeasible even for the most powerful classical supercomputers …

Controlling and programming quantum devices to process quantum information by the unit
of quantum dit, ie, qudit, provides the possibilities for noise-resilient quantum …

Quantum error correction protects fragile quantum information by encoding it into a larger
quantum system,. These extra degrees of freedom enable the detection and correction of …

BACKGROUND The past two decades have seen intense efforts aimed at building quantum
computing hardware with the potential to solve problems that are intractable on classical …

The past decades have witnessed the evolution of electronic and photonic integrated
circuits, from application specific to programmable,. Although liquid-phase DNA circuitry …

Most quantum computers use binary encoding to store information in qubits—the quantum
analogue of classical bits. Yet, the underlying physical hardware consists of information …

Nowadays, quantum computing has reached the engineering phase, with fully-functional
quantum processors integrating hundreds of noisy qubits. Yet–to fully unveil the potential of …

Quantum random sampling is the leading proposal for demonstrating a computational
advantage of quantum computers over classical computers. Recently the first large-scale …