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Publications

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09/2026

A Dynamic Intermediate Representation for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Programs

A Rice, C Heunen, T Grosser

arXiv preprint

07/2026

Spectrum Estimation is Almost as Hard as Tomography

Marco Fanizza, Ryan O’Donnell, Chirag Wadhwa

arXiv preprint

07/2026

Quench Spectroscopy of Magnetic Excitations on a Superconducting
Quantum Processor

D. A. Millar ,G. W. Pennington , N. T. M. Siow, S. Brandhofer, J. Crain ,F. H. L. Essler ,A. G. Green ,and S. J. Thomson

arXiv preprint

07/2026

Routing Anonymity and Identifiability of Noisy Quantum Hardware

Ben Priestley, Mina Doosti

arXiv preprint

07/2026

Verifiable blind probabilistic error cancellation

Bo Yang, Elham Kashefi, and Harold Ollivier

arXiv preprint

07/2026

Classical simulation and model concentration in passive linear optics

Léo Monbroussou, Hugo Thomas, Hela Mhiri, Zoë Holmes,and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

07/2026

Efficiently simulable quantum circuits with large entanglement, magic, and non-Gaussianity via code-compiled tensor networks

Aydin Deger, Stergios Koutsioumpas, Mark Webster, Hasan Sayginel, Joschka Roffe, and Dan E. Browne

arXiv preprint

06/2026

Spectral Gap Informed Ramp QAOA

Kieran McDowall, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

06/2026

Scalable Message-Passing Quantum Graph Neural Networks in the Weisfeiler–Leman Hierarchy

Snehal Raj, Brian Coyle, Leo Monbroussou, Andr´e J.
Ferreira-Martins, Renato M. S. Farias, and Elham Kashef

arXiv preprint

06/2026

Authentication in Quantum Networks

Christopher Battarbee, Suchetana Goswami, Elham Kashefi, and Mina Doost

arXiv preprint

06/2026

Proactive Secret Sharing without Erasures

Alexandru Cojocaru, Aggelos Kiayias, Yu Shen, Petros Wallden

eprint iacr

06/2026

Adaptive directional gradients for parameterised quantum circuits

Brian Coyle, Snehal Raj, Virag Umathe, Amine Cherrat, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

06/2026

Nearest-neighbour gates are all you need: High-rate quantum low-density parity-check codes on a planar grid

B Gu, T Noszko, V Steffan, JN Eberhardt, J Roffe, J Eisert, S Koutsioumpas

arXiv preprint

05/2026

Sheaf-Theoretic Preparation Contextuality

Tom Williams, Mina Doosti, Farid Shahandeh

arXiv preprint

05/2026

One rig to control them all

Chris Heunen, Robin Kaarsgaard, Louis Lemonnier

arXiv preprint

05/2026

Unconditional Authentication in Quantum Key Distribution via Hybrid Entangled Physical Unclonable Functions

Nicolas Laurent-Puig, Mina Doosti, Adriano Innocenzi, Eleni Diamanti

arXiv preprint

04/2026

Distributed quantum property testing with communication constraints

Mina Doosti, Ryan Sweke, Chirag Wadhwa

arXiv preprint

04/2026

Circuit Harmonic Matrices: A Spectral Framework for Quantum Machine Learning

Kyle James Stuart Campbell, Luigi Del Debbio, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

04/2026

Boson sampling beyond the dilute regime: second moments and anti-concentration

Hela Mhiri,Hugo Thomas, Léo Monbroussou,Ulysse Chabaud, Zoë Holmes, and Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

03/2026

QGPU: Parallel logic in quantum LDPC codes

B Gu, AZ Liu, AO Quintavalle, Q Xu, J Eisert, J Roffe

arXiv preprint

03/2026

Laplace expansions and tree decompositions: A faster polytime algorithm for shallow nearest-neighbor boson sampling

S Novák, R García-Patrón

Physical Review A 113 (3), 032428

03/2026

Quantum phase estimation without controlled unitaries

L Clinton, TS Cubitt, R Garcia-Patron, A Montanaro, S Stanisic, M Stroeks

PRX Quantum 7 (1), 010345

02/2026

Quantum Phaselift

D Patel, L Clinton, ST Flammia, R García-Patrón

arXiv preprint

02/2026

Free quantum computing

Jacques Carettea, Chris Heunenb, Robin Kaarsgaardc, Neil J. Rossd, and Amr Sabry

PNAS

02/2026

Have Your CKAKE and Eat it, Too: Efficient, Composable KEM-Authenticated Key Exchange

Myrto Arapinis, Christopher Battarbee, Mina Doosti

Cryptology ePrint Archive

02/2026

Information-Theoretic Limits of Quantum Learning via Data Compression

A Angrisani, B Coyle, E Kashefi

2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence, arXiv preprint

02/2026

Methods for non-variational heuristic quantum optimisation

Stuart Ferguson, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

01/2026

Contrary Inferences for Classical Histories within the Consistent Histories Formulation of Quantum Theory

Adamantia Zampeli, Georgios E. Pavlou, Petros Wallden

Foundations of Physics,Volume 56, article number 3, (2026)

01/2026

Quantum Elastic Network Models and their Application to Graphene

Ioannis Kolotouros, Adithya Sireesh, Stuart Ferguson, Sean Thrasher, Petros Wallden, Julien Michel

arXiv preprint

01/2026

Quantum Data Structure for Range Minimum Query

Qisheng Wang, Zhean Xu, Zhicheng Zhang

arXiv preprint

01/2026

Quantum circuits are just a phase

Chris Heunen, Louis Lemonnier, Christopher McNally, Alex Rice

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 10 (POPL), 2586-2613

12/2025

Agnostic process tomography

C Wadhwa, L Lewis, E Kashefi, M Doosti

PRX Quantum 6 (4), 040371

12/2025

A unified linear algebraic framework for physical models and generalized contextuality

Farid Shahandeh, Theodoros Yianni, Mina Doosti

arXiv preprint

12/2025

Adiabatic-Inspired Hybrid Quantum-Classical Methods for Molecular Ground State Preparation

Sean Thrasher, Ioannis Kolotouros, Julien Michel, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

11/2025

The born ultimatum: Conditions for classical surrogation of quantum generative models with correlators

Mario Herrero-Gonzalez, Brian Coyle,1, Kieran McDowall, Ross
Grassie, Sjoerd Beentjes, Ava Khamseh, and Elham Kashef

arXiv preprint

11/2025

A fast and frugal Gaussian Boson Sampling emulator

T Dodd, J Martínez-Cifuentes, OT Brown, N Quesada, R García-Patrón

arXiv preprint

11/2025

The Born Ultimatum: Conditions for Classical Surrogation of Quantum Generative Models with Correlators

Mario Herrero-Gonzalez, Brian Coyle, Kieran McDowall, Ross Grassie, Sjoerd Beentjes, Ava Khamseh, Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

11/2025

Boundaries for quantum advantage with single photons and loop-based time-bin interferometers

S Novák, DD Roberts, A Makarovskiy, R García-Patrón, WR Clements

Quantum 9, 1915

10/2025

Verifiable blind observable estimation: A composably secure protocol for near-term quantum advantage tasks

Bo Yang, Elham Kashefi, Harold Ollivier

arXiv preprint

10/2025

Role of Coherence for Quantum Computational Advantage

Hugo Thomas, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Rawad Mezher, Elham Kashefi, Harold Ollivier, Ulysse Chabaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 150602

10/2025

Low-Level and NUMA-Aware Optimization for High-Performance Quantum Simulation

A Rezaei, L Jaulmes, M Bahna, OT Brown, A Barbalace

arXiv preprint

10/2025

On estimating the quantum distance

Yupan Liu, Qisheng Wang

33rd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2025)

10/2025

Probing quantum advantage for solving the Fermi-Hubbard model with entropy benchmarking

P Besserve, R García-Patrón

arXiv preprint

10/2025

Causal Coverage in Ordered Locales and Spacetimes

C Heunen, N van der Schaaf

arXiv preprint

10/2025

On-chip verified quantum computation with an ion-trap quantum processing unit

C Gustiani, D Leichtle, J Miller, R Grassie, D Mills, E Kashefi

Physical Review Letters 135 (16), 160801

09/2025

Distributed Quantum Computing Across Heterogeneous Hardware with Hybrid Dependency Hypergraphs

Maria Gragera Garces, Chris Heunen, Mahesh Marina

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Posters and Demos

09/2025

Localized statistics decoding for quantum low-density parity-check codes

Timo Hillmann, Lucas Berent, Armanda O. Quintavalle, Jens Eisert, Robert Wille, Joschka Roffe

Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 8214 (2025)

08/2025

Logical accreditation: a framework for efficient certification of fault-tolerant computations

James Mills, Adithya Sireesh, Dominik Leichtle, Joschka Roffe, Elham Kashefi

arXiv preprint

08/2025

Towards Categorical Quantum Concurrency Theory

C Heunen

36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory

08/2025

Dagger categories of relations: the equivalence of dilatory dagger categories and epi-regular independence categories

Matthew Di Meglio, Chris Heunen, Jean-Simon Pacaud Lemay, Paolo Perrone, Dario Stein

arXiv preprint

08/2025

Introducing CQ: A C-like API for Quantum Accelerated HPC

OT Brown, M Meller, J Richings

arXiv preprint

10/2025

String diagrams for defect-based surface code computing

M. Kupper, C. Heunen, N. de Beaudrap, D. Horsman

QPL 2025, arxiv preprint

08/2025

Colour Codes Reach Surface Code Performance using Vibe Decoding

Stergios Koutsioumpas, Tamas Noszko, Hasan Sayginel, Mark Webster, Joschka Roffe

arXiv preprint

07/2025

Variational quantum cloning machine on an integrated photonic interferometer

Francesco Hoch, Giovanni Rodari, Eugenio Caruccio, Beatrice Polacchi, Gonzalo Carvacho, Taira Giordani, Mina Doosti, Sebastià Nicolau, Ciro Pentangelo, Simone Piacentini, Andrea Crespi, Francesco Ceccarelli, Roberto Osellame, Ernesto F. Galvão, Nicolò Spagnolo, and Fabio Sciarrino

Optica Quantum Vol. 3, Issue 4, pp. 351-359 (2025)

07/2025

Toward quantum advantage with photonic state injection

Léo Monbroussou, Eliott Z. Mamon, Hugo Thomas, Verena Yacoub, Ulysse Chabaud, Elham Kashefi

Phys. Rev. Research 7, 033051

06/2025

Dynamics of discrete spacetimes with Quantum-enhanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Stuart Ferguson, Arad Nasiri, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Benincasa-Dowker causal set actions by quantum counting

Sean A. Adamson, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Experimental Verifiable Multiclient Blind Quantum Computing on a Qline Architecture

B Polacchi, D Leichtle, G Carvacho, G Milani, N Spagnolo, M Kaplan

Physical Review Letters 134 (20), 200603, 2025

05/2025

Hadamard-Π: Equational Quantum Programming

W. Fang, C. Heunen, R. Kaarsgaard

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo for systems larger than a quantum computer

Stuart Ferguson, Petros Wallden

Physical Review Research 7 (1), 013231

05/2025

Engineering CSS surgery: compiling any CNOT in any code

Clément Poirson, Joschka Roffe, Robert I. Booth

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Simultaneous Estimation of Nonlinear Functionals of a Quantum State

K Chen, Q Wang, Z Yu, Z Zhang

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Learning Quantum Processes with Quantum Statistical Queries

Wadhwa, Chirag, and Mina Doosti

Quantum 9, 1739 (2025)

05/2025

Hilbert ∗-categories: Where limits in analysis and category theory meet

Matthew Di Meglio, Chris Heunen

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Hardware-tailored logical Clifford circuits for stabilizer codes

Eric J. Kuehnke, Kyano Levi, Joschka Roffe, Jens Eisert, Daniel Miller

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Quantum Hamiltonian Certification

M Gao, Z Ji, Q Wang, W Yu, Q Zhao

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Quantum differential privacy in the local model

A Angrisani, E Kashefi

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2025

05/2025

Introducing Quantum Computing to High-School Curricula: A Global Perspective

María Gragera Garcés, Luis Gómez Orzechowski, Juan Francisco Rodríguez Hernández

arXiv preprint

05/2025

Improved Sample Upper and Lower Bounds for Trace Estimation of Quantum State Powers

K Chen, Q Wang

arXiv preprint

04/2025

Hybrid Authentication Protocols for Advanced Quantum Networks

S Goswami, M Doosti, E Kashefi

arXiv preprint

04/2025

A note on quantum divide and conquer for minimal string rotation

Q Wang

Theoretical Computer Science,Volume 1034, 22 April 2025, 115120

04/2025

Selectively Blind Quantum Computation

A Poshtvan, O Lapiha, M Doosti, D Leichtle, L Music, E Kashefi

arXiv preprint

04/2025

Quantum Lifting for Invertible Permutations and Ideal Cipher

Alexandru Cojocaru, Juan Garay, Qipeng Liu, Fang Song

CRYPTO 2025

04/2025

Language Model for Large-Text Transmission in Noisy Quantum Communications

Yuqi Li, Zhouhang Shi, Haitao Ma, Li Shen, Jinge Bao, Yunlong Xiao

arXiv preprint

04/2025

Non-Interactive and Non-Destructive Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Quantum States and Multi-Party Generation of Authorized Hidden GHZ States

L Colisson, F Grosshans, E Kashefi

ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing 6 (2), 1-56, 2025

04/2025

Verifiable End-to-End Delegated Variational Quantum Algorithms

Matteo Inajetovic, Petros Wallden, Anna Pappa

arXiv preprint

04/2025

Quantum Lifting for Invertible Permutations and Ideal Ciphers

Alexandru Cojocaru, Minki Hhan, Qipeng Liu, Takashi Yamakawa, Aaram Yun

CRYPTO 2025

04/2025

Photonic Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks with Adaptive State Injection

Léo Monbroussou, Beatrice Polacchi, Verena Yacoub, Eugenio Caruccio, Giovanni Rodari, Francesco Hoch, Gonzalo Carvacho, Nicolò Spagnolo, Taira Giordani, Mattia Bossi, Abhiram Rajan, Niki Di Giano, Riccardo Albiero, Francesco Ceccarelli, Roberto Osellame, Elham Kashefi, Fabio Sciarrino

04/2025

Tensor-Parallel Emulation of Quantum Circuits with Block-Cyclic Distributed Matrix Product States

J Adamski, OT Brown

arXiv preprint

03/2025

qiskit-community: mps-to-circuit

DA Millar, GW Pennington, NTM Siow, SJ Thomson

Github

03/2025

Subspace preserving quantum convolutional neural network architectures

L Monbroussou, J Landman, L Wang, AB Grilo, E Kashefi

Quantum Science and Technology 10 (2), 025050, 2025

03/2025

Approximation Methods for Simulation and Equivalence Checking of Noisy Quantum Circuits

Mingyu Huang, Ji Guan, Wang Fang, Mingsheng Ying

arXiv preprint

03/2025

Breaking absolute separability with quantum switch

Sravani Yanamandra, P. V. Srinidhi, Samyadeb Bhattacharya, Indranil Chakrabarty & Suchetana Goswami

Quantum Inf Process 24, 81 (2025)

03/2025

Local quench spectroscopy on a digital quantum computer

D Millar, N Siow, G Pennington, D Galvin, A Green, S Thomson

APS Joint March Meeting and April Meeting: Global Physics Summit, 2025

03/2025

Quantum advantage for learning shallow neural networks with natural data distributions

Laura Lewis, Dar Gilboa, Jarrod R. McClean

arXiv preprint

03/2025

A Practically Scalable Approach to the Closest Vector Problem for Sieving via QAOA with Fixed Angles

Ben Priestley, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

03/2025

Efficient Formal Verification of Quantum Error Correcting Programs

Qifan Huang, Li Zhou, Wang Fang, Mengyu Zhao, Mingsheng Ying

arXiv preprint

03/2025

Synthesis of quantum simulators by compilation

M Tarabkhah, M Delavar, M Doosti, A Shaikhha

M Tarabkhah, M Delavar, M Doosti, A Shaikhha

02/2025

Disentangling quantum autoencoder

Adithya Sireesh, Abdulla Alhajri, M.S. Kim, Tobias Haug

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Adiabatic quantum unstructured search in parallel

Sean A. Adamson, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Improved Accreditation of Analogue Quantum Simulation and Establishing Quantum Advantage

Andrew Jackson, Animesh Datta

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Optimized circuits for windowed modular arithmetic with applications to quantum attacks against RSA

Alessandro Luongo, Varun Narasimhachar, Adithya Sireesh

arXiv preprint

02/2025

A Review and Collection of Metrics and Benchmarks for Quantum Computers: definitions, methodologies and software

Deep Lall, Abhishek Agarwal, Weixi Zhang, Lachlan Lindoy, Tobias Lindström, Stephanie Webster, Simon Hall, Nicholas Chancellor, Petros Wallden, Raul Garcia-Patron, Elham Kashefi, Viv Kendon, Jonathan Pritchard, Alessandro Rossi, Animesh Datta, Theodoros Kapourniotis, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Ivan Rungger

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Error mitigation of BQP computations using measurement-based verification

J Harris, E Kashefi

Physical Review A 111 (2), 022602, 2025

02/2025

Quantum algorithms and lower bounds for eccentricity, radius, and diameter in undirected graphs

Adam Wesołowski, Jinge Bao

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Heuristic Time Complexity of NISQ Shortest-Vector-Problem Solvers

Milos Prokop, Petros Wallden

arXiv preprint

02/2025

Asymmetric secure multi-party quantum computation with weak clients against dishonest majority

T Kapourniotis, E Kashefi, D Leichtle, L Music, H Ollivier

Quantum Science and Technology, 2025

02/2025

Computing Efficiently in QLDPC Codes

Alexander J. Malcolm, Andrew N. Glaudell, Patricio Fuentes, Daryus Chandra, Alexis Schotte, Colby DeLisle, Rafael Haenel, Amir Ebrahimi, Joschka Roffe, Armanda O. Quintavalle, Stefanie J. Beale, Nicholas R. Lee-Hone, Stephanie Simmons

arXiv preprint

01/2025

Qurts: Automatic quantum uncomputation by affine types with lifetime

Kengo Hirata, Chris Heunen

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages POPL 9:155-182, 2025

01/2025

Accelerating quantum imaginary-time evolution with random measurements

Kolotouros I, Joseph D, Narayanan AK

Physical Review A 111 (1), 012424, 2025

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