{"title":"The role of data-induced randomness in quantum machine learning classification tasks","authors":"Berta Casas, Xavier Bonet-Monroig, Adrián Pérez-Salinas","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01330-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01330-y","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum machine learning (QML) has surged as a prominent area of research with the objective to go beyond the capabilities of classical machine learning models. A critical aspect of any learning task is the process of data embedding, which directly impacts model performance. Poorly designed data-embedding strategies can significantly impact the success of a learning task. Despite its importance, rigorous analyses of data-embedding effects are limited, leaving many cases without effective assessment methods. In this work, we introduce a metric for binary classification tasks, the class margin, by merging the concepts of average randomness and classification margin. This metric analytically connects data-induced randomness with classification accuracy for a given data-embedding map. We benchmark a range of data-embedding strategies through class margin, demonstrating its ability to identify data-induced randomness that hinders classification performance. We expect this work to provide a new approach to evaluate QML models by their data-embedding processes, addressing gaps left by existing analytical tools","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148612779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Özlem Erkılıç, Aritra Das, Biveen Shajilal, Ping Koy Lam, Timothy C. Ralph, Syed M. Assad
{"title":"A unified optical platform for non-Gaussian and fault-tolerant Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill states","authors":"Özlem Erkılıç, Aritra Das, Biveen Shajilal, Ping Koy Lam, Timothy C. Ralph, Syed M. Assad","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01336-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01336-6","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum technologies, encompassing communication, computation, and metrology, rely on the generation and control of non-Gaussian states of light. These states enable secure quantum communication, fault-tolerant quantum computation, and precision sensing beyond classical limits, yet their practical realisation remains a major challenge due to reliance on high-photon-number Fock states or strong non-linearities. Here we introduce a unified optical framework that removes this constraint, using only Gaussian inputs, optical parametric amplification, and heralded photon detection. Within a single architecture, we demonstrate the generation of photon-added squeezed states with near unit fidelity, cubic-phase-like states with strong non-linearities and fidelities above 98.5%, and squeezed-cat states exceeding 99% fidelity that can be iteratively bred into GKP grid states surpassing the 9.75 dB fault-tolerance threshold. Operating entirely below 3 dB of input squeezing, the approach provides a scalable, experimentally accessible platform that unites the state resources required for quantum communication, metrology, and computation within one coherent optical framework.","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148612780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental implementation of a discrete-time quantum walk on biological networks","authors":"Viacheslav Dubovitskii, Filippo Utro, Aritra Bose, Laxmi Parida, Sabrina Maniscalco, Sergey N. Filippov","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01332-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01332-w","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum walks provide a versatile framework for probing the structural and dynamical properties of complex systems ranging from biological networks to synthetic materials. However, their realization on current noisy pre-fault-tolerant quantum computers is fundamentally limited by decoherence. Conventional dense encodings of graph structures require prohibitively deep circuits, making them incompatible with existing hardware. Here we introduce an algorithm that leverages symmetry-sector encoding and trades circuit depth for the number of qubits, while integrating symmetry-respecting postselection as an effective noise-mitigation strategy. This combination enables us to execute practical quantum-walk circuits for biological network motifs on actual quantum hardware. We benchmark the proposed methodology against known state-of-the-art circuit architectures, highlighting significant reduction of circuit depth in our approach at the cost of moderate qubit overhead. Utilizing 40 qubits, we implement quantum walks on complex graphs containing up to 17 nodes and 20 edges—the largest experiment on superconducting hardware to date, with the Hellinger fidelity exceeding 87% throughout 7 steps. We present a proof-of-principle case study that illustrates how experimentally obtained quantum-walk dynamics on a protein-protein-interaction network can be applied to prioritizing disease-associated genes. We discuss the framework scalability in the pre-fault-tolerant era and its potential for studying larger biological networks.","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148587306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohit Lal Bera, Joyce Kwan, Armando Pérez, Miguel A. García-March, Ravindra Chhajlany, Tobias Grass, Maciej Lewenstein, Utso Bhattacharya, Sourav Bhattacharjee
{"title":"A hybrid Anyon-otto thermal machine","authors":"Mohit Lal Bera, Joyce Kwan, Armando Pérez, Miguel A. García-March, Ravindra Chhajlany, Tobias Grass, Maciej Lewenstein, Utso Bhattacharya, Sourav Bhattacharjee","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01328-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01328-6","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a four-stroke quantum thermal machine based on the 1D anyon Hubbard model, which is capable of extracting the excess energy arising from anyon exclusion statistics at low temperature into finite work. Defining a hybrid anyon-Otto (HAO) cycle, we find that the low-temperature work, in the absence of any interactions, is maximized in the pseudo-fermionic limit, where the anyons most closely resemble free fermions. However, when weak interactions are introduced, the work output is no longer maximized at the bosonic or pseudo-fermionic extremes but instead peaks at intermediate statistical angles. This clearly demonstrates that interactions and anyonic statistics conspire non-trivially to enhance performance, with interacting anyons offering greater quantum thermodynamic advantage than either bosons or pseudo-fermions, in this regime. Furthermore, we also outline an experimental protocol to realize the HAO cycle using ultracold atoms in an optical lattice.","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148587302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bruno Camino, Mao Lin, John Buckeridge, Scott M. Woodley
{"title":"Thermodynamic sampling of materials using neutral-atom quantum computers","authors":"Bruno Camino, Mao Lin, John Buckeridge, Scott M. Woodley","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01323-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01323-x","url":null,"abstract":"Neutral-atom quantum hardware has emerged as a promising platform for programmable many-body physics. In this work, we develop and validate a practical framework for extracting thermodynamic properties of materials using such hardware. As a test case, we consider nitrogen-doped graphene. Starting from Density Functional Theory (DFT) formation energies, we map the material energetics onto a Rydberg-atom Hamiltonian suitable for quantum annealing by fitting an on-site term and distance-dependent pair interactions. The Hamiltonian derived from DFT cannot be implemented directly on current QuEra devices, as the largest energy scale accessible on the hardware is two orders of magnitude smaller than the target two-body interaction in the material. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a rescaling strategy based on a single parameter, αv, which ensures that the distribution sampled by the hardware is well described by Boltzmann-like weights corresponding to those of the material at an effective temperature ({T}^{{prime} }={alpha }_{v}T), where T is the device sampling temperature. This rescaling also establishes a direct correspondence between the global laser detuning Δg and the grand-canonical chemical potential Δμ. We validate the method on a 28-site graphene nanoflake using exhaustive enumeration, and on a larger 78-site system where Monte Carlo sampling confirms preferential sampling of low-energy configurations.","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148587303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photonic qubit gates via 1D scattering from an array of two-level emitters","authors":"Evangelos Varvelis, Joachim Ankerhold","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01324-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01324-w","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic quantum computing offers a promising platform for quantum information processing, benefiting from the long coherence times of photons and their ease of manipulation. This paper presents a scheme for implementing a deterministic phase gate for dual-rail number encoded photonic qubits, leveraging a standard 1D waveguide coupled to an array of two-level emitters (TLE). Using a transfer matrix approach, we develop a protocol for deterministic phase gate operation, demonstrating its robustness against non-waveguide mode coupling and disorder. Finally, we relax the idealized assumption of monochromatic light, considering finite-bandwidth pulses. Despite these realistic considerations, our results indicate high fidelity for the proposed phase gate protocol. Finally we will discuss two qubit operations.","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148459334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generating logical magic states with the aid of non-Abelian topological order","authors":"Sheng-Jie Huang, Yanzhu Chen","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01315-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01315-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148459326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reece Robertson, Mirko Consiglio, Josey Stevens, Emery Doucet, Tony J. G. Apollaro, Sebastian Deffner
{"title":"Variational Gibbs state preparation on trapped-ion devices","authors":"Reece Robertson, Mirko Consiglio, Josey Stevens, Emery Doucet, Tony J. G. Apollaro, Sebastian Deffner","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01318-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01318-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148432140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nasser Gohari Kamel, Arsalan Mansourzadeh, Ujjwal Gautam, Vinaya Kumar Kavatamane, Ashutosh Singh, Edith Yeung, David B. Northeast, Paul E. Barclay, Philip J. Poole, Dan Dalacu, Daniel Oblak
{"title":"Erbium-doped fiber quantum memory for chip-integrated quantum-dot single photons at 980 nm","authors":"Nasser Gohari Kamel, Arsalan Mansourzadeh, Ujjwal Gautam, Vinaya Kumar Kavatamane, Ashutosh Singh, Edith Yeung, David B. Northeast, Paul E. Barclay, Philip J. Poole, Dan Dalacu, Daniel Oblak","doi":"10.1038/s41534-026-01316-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-026-01316-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19212,"journal":{"name":"npj Quantum Information","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148432138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}