Quantum machine learning: from physics to software engineering

A Melnikov, M Kordzanganeh, A Alodjants… - Advances in Physics …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Quantum machine learning is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of quantum
technology and artificial intelligence. This review provides a two-fold overview of several key …

Open source software in quantum computing

M Fingerhuth, T Babej, P Wittek - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Open source software is becoming crucial in the design and testing of quantum algorithms.
Many of the tools are backed by major commercial vendors with the goal to make it easier to …

ZX-calculus for the working quantum computer scientist

J van de Wetering - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13966, 2020 - arxiv.org
The ZX-calculus is a graphical language for reasoning about quantum computation that has
recently seen an increased usage in a variety of areas such as quantum circuit optimisation …

Reducing the number of non-Clifford gates in quantum circuits

A Kissinger, J van de Wetering - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We present a method for reducing the number of non-Clifford quantum gates, in particularly
T-gates, in a circuit, an important task for efficiently implementing fault-tolerant quantum …

Barren plateaus in quantum tensor network optimization

EC Martín, K Plekhanov, M Lubasch - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
We analyze the barren plateau phenomenon in the variational optimization of quantum
circuits inspired by matrix product states (qMPS), tree tensor networks (qTTN), and the …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing the barren plateau phenomenon in training quantum neural networks with the ZX-calculus

C Zhao, XS Gao - Quantum, 2021 - quantum-journal.org
In this paper, we propose a general scheme to analyze the gradient vanishing phenomenon,
also known as the barren plateau phenomenon, in training quantum neural networks with …

Foundations for near-term quantum natural language processing

B Coecke, G de Felice, K Meichanetzidis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We provide conceptual and mathematical foundations for near-term quantum natural
language processing (QNLP), and do so in quantum computer scientist friendly terms. We …

PyZX: Large scale automated diagrammatic reasoning

A Kissinger, J van de Wetering - arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.04735, 2019 - arxiv.org
The ZX-calculus is a graphical language for reasoning about ZX-diagrams, a type of tensor
networks that can represent arbitrary linear maps between qubits. Using the ZX-calculus, we …

Interacting quantum observables: categorical algebra and diagrammatics

B Coecke, R Duncan - New Journal of Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper has two tightly intertwined aims:(i) to introduce an intuitive and universal
graphical calculus for multi-qubit systems, the ZX-calculus, which greatly simplifies …

There and back again: A circuit extraction tale

M Backens, H Miller-Bakewell, G de Felice… - Quantum, 2021 - quantum-journal.org
Translations between the quantum circuit model and the measurement-based one-way
model are useful for verification and optimisation of quantum computations. They make …