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Optimal schedule of multi-channel quantum Zeno dragging with application to solving the k-SAT problem

Yipei Zhang, Alain Sarlette, Philippe Lewalle, Tathagata Karmakar, Thilo Scharnhorst, and K. Birgitta Whaley,

Quantum 10, 2167 (2026).

Quantum Zeno dragging enables the preparation of common eigenstates of a set of observables by frequent measurement and adiabatic-like modulation of the measurement basis. In this work, we p…

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Resource quantification for programming low-depth quantum circuits

Entong He and Yuxiang Yang,

Quantum 10, 2166 (2026).

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices pave the way for implementing quantum algorithms that offer quantum advantages over their classical counterparts. Due to the intrinsic noise a…

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Complexity of graph-state preparation by Clifford circuits

Soh Kumabe, Ryuhei Mori, and Yusei Yoshimura,

Quantum 10, 2165 (2026).

In this work, we study the complexity of graph-state preparation in a general model of quantum algorithms that allows measurements in the computational basis, single-qubit Clifford operation…

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Exact Quantum Many-Body Scars in 2D Quantum Gauge Models

Yuan Miao, Linhao Li, Hosho Katsura, and Masahito Yamazaki,

Quantum 10, 2164 (2026).

Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) serve as important examples of ergodicity-breaking phenomena in quantum many-body systems. Despite recent extensive studies, exact QMBS are rare in dimensions…

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Shadow Pauli Flow: Characterising Determinism in MBQCs involving Pauli Measurements

Mehdi Mhalla, Simon Perdrix, and Luc Sanselme,

Quantum 10, 2163 (2026).

We introduce a new characterisation of determinism in Measurement-Based Quantum Computing (MBQC). The one-way model consists in performing local measurements over a large entangled state rep…

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Fast quantum measurement tomography with optimal error bounds

Leonardo Zambrano, Sergi Ramos-Calderer, and Richard Kueng,

Quantum 10, 2162 (2026).

We present a two-step protocol for quantum measurement tomography that is light on classical co-processing cost and still achieves optimal sample complexity. Given measurement data from a kn…

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MPC in the Quantum Head (or: Superposition-Secure (Quantum) Zero-Knowledge)

Andrea Coladangelo, Ruta Jawale, Dakshita Khurana, Giulio Malavolta, and Hendrik Waldner,

Quantum 10, 2161 (2026).

The MPC-in-the-head technique (Ishai et al., STOC 2007) is a celebrated method to build zero-knowledge protocols with desirable theoretical properties and high practical efficiency. This tec…

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Geometric speed limit of state preparation and curved control spaces

Maximilian Goll and Robert H. Jonsson,

Quantum 10, 2160 (2026).

The preparation of quantum many-body systems faces the difficulty that in a realistic scenario only few control parameters of the system may be accessible. In this context, an interesting co…

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From Superradiance to Superabsorption: An Exact Treatment of Non-Markovian Cooperative Radiation

Ignacio González and Ángel Rivas,

Quantum 10, 2159 (2026).

We investigate the emergence of cooperative radiation phenomena in ensembles of two-level atoms coupled to a lossy resonant cavity beyond the Markovian and mean-field approximations. By deri…

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Near-Optimal Parameter Tuning of Level-1 QAOA for Ising Models

V Vijendran, Dax Enshan Koh, Eunok Bae, Hyukjoon Kwon, Ping Koy Lam, and Syed M Assad,

Quantum 10, 2158 (2026).

The Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm (QAOA) tackles combinatorial optimisation problems by encoding their solutions into the ground state of an Ising Hamiltonian prepared by a $p$-le…

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Towards Unconditional Uncloneable Encryption

Pierre Botteron, Anne Broadbent, Eric Culf, Ion Nechita, Clément Pellegrini, and Denis Rochette,

Quantum 10, 2157 (2026).

Uncloneable encryption is a cryptographic primitive which encrypts a classical message into a quantum ciphertext, such that two quantum adversaries are limited in their capacity of being abl…

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Enlarging the GKP stabilizer group for enhanced noise protection

Jonathan Pelletier and Baptiste Royer,

Quantum 10, 2156 (2026).

Encoding a qubit in a larger Hilbert space of an oscillator is an efficient way to protect its quantum information against decoherence. Promising examples of such bosonic encodings are the G…

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Resourcefulness of non-classical continuous-variable quantum gates

Massimo Frigerio, Antoine Debray, Nicolas Treps, and Mattia Walschaers,

Quantum 10, 2155 (2026).

In continuous-variable quantum computation, identifying key elements that enable a quantum computational advantage is a long-standing issue. Starting from the standard results on the necessi…

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Quantum Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Semidefinite Programming

Hantao Nie, Dong An, and Zaiwen Wen,

Quantum 10, 2154 (2026).

Semidefinite programming (SDP) is a fundamental convex optimization problem with wide-ranging applications. However, solving large-scale instances remains computationally challenging due to…

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Exploring Imaginary Coordinates: Disparity in the Shape of Quantum State Space in Even and Odd Dimensions

Simon Morelli, Santiago Llorens, and Jens Siewert,

Quantum 10, 2153 (2026).

The state of a finite-dimensional quantum system is described by a density matrix that can be decomposed into a real diagonal, a real off-diagonal and and an imaginary off-diagonal part. The…

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A complexity theory for non-local quantum computation

Andreas Bluhm, Simon Höfer, Alex May, Mikka Stasiuk, Philip Verduyn Lunel, and Henry Yuen,

Quantum 10, 2152 (2026).

Non-local quantum computation (NLQC) replaces a local interaction between two systems with a single round of communication and shared entanglement. Despite many partial results, it is known…