Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science / Quantum Team

Mission-Driven Applied Quantum Information Science.

Foundamental and applied research across quantum algorithms, numerical simulation, hardware physics, benchmarking, and theory and design of quantum sensors.

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Optimization & Machine Learning

Quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms for constrained optimization, sampling, learning, and autonomous reasoning problems.

Quantum Simulation

Digital and analog approaches to simulate static and dynamical aspects of materials, chemistry, field theories.

Hardware Physics & Co-design

Research at the interface of device physics, architecture, control, error handling, algorithms.

HPC, Benchmarking & Software

High-performance simulation, open research software, verification, and evidence-based benchmarking across platforms.

Quantum Sensing

Theory, protocols, and system concepts for quantum-enhanced sensing and measurement, and its intersection with computing and quantum information transduction.

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Temporal information processing on a 4,500-qubit quantum annealer

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Antonio Sannia, Roberto Menta, Pratik Sathe, Dario De Santis, Vittorio Giovannetti, Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Davide Venturelli, Gian Luca Giorgi, Roberta Zambrini, Francesco Caravelli arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.19308

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