Parity-dependent Casimir forces and Hall currents for a confined Dirac field

This paper investigates a massless Dirac field confined between two parallel walls in d+1d+1 dimensions, demonstrating that the field's parity under midplane reflection determines whether the resulting Casimir force is attractive or repulsive and governs the symmetry of associated vacuum-induced currents, including a transverse Hall-like current in 2+1 dimensions.

Aitor Fernández, César D. Fosco2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Heterogeneously Integrated Diamond-on-Lithium Niobate Quantum Photonic Platform

This paper demonstrates a scalable quantum photonic platform by heterogeneously integrating high-Q diamond photonic crystal cavities with a thin-film lithium niobate backbone, enabling efficient, low-loss photon transfer and collection from silicon vacancies for practical quantum networking.

Sophie W. Ding, Chang Jin, Zixi Li, Nicholas Achuthan, Kazuhiro Kuruma, Xinghan Guo, Brandon Grinkemeyer, David D. Awschalom, Nazar Delegan, F. Joseph Heremans, Alexander A. High, Marko Loncar2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Communication-constrained nonlocal correlations

This paper extends communication-based approaches to distinguish quantum theory from broader probabilistic frameworks by systematically characterizing relevant communication tasks and deriving new operational constraints that reveal a broad family of previously undetected implausible behaviors, thereby reinforcing communication as a fundamental lens for identifying physically meaningful theories.

Lucas Pollyceno, Denis Freudenheim, José Nogueira, Anubhav Chaturvedi, Rafael Rabelo, Marcin Pawłowski2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Symmetry-based perturbation theory for electronic structure calculations

This paper introduces a symmetry-based multi-reference perturbation theory (SBPT) that leverages enhanced symmetries in a reference Hamiltonian to significantly reduce computational costs in both classical configuration interaction and quantum computing applications, while offering scalable solutions and improved robustness for various molecular systems.

Hiromichi Nishimura, Nam Nguyen, Tanvi Gujarati, Mario Motta2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Metriq: A Collaborative Platform for Benchmarking Quantum Computers

The paper introduces Metriq, an open-source collaborative platform that unifies benchmark definition, execution, and data collection to enable reproducible, cross-platform performance assessment of quantum computers through a diverse suite of metrics and a composite Metriq Score.

Alessandro Cosentino, Changhao Li, Vincent Russo, Bradley A. Chase, Tom Lubinski, Siyuan Niu, Neer Patel, Nathan Shammah, William J. Zeng2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Fermi-pressure-assisted cavity superradiance in a mesoscopic Fermi gas

This study demonstrates that a mesoscopic Fermi gas in a high-finesse cavity exhibits a non-monotonic superradiant threshold driven by a crossover between Fermi pressure-assisted ordering and Pauli blocking, while also enabling the observation of spin-density-wave phases through spin-dependent light-induced forces.

Francesca Orsi, Ekaterina Fedotova, Rohit Prasad Bhatt, Mae Eichenberger, Léa Dubois, Jean-Philippe Brantut2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

A note on large-scale quantum chemistry on quantum computers: the case of a molecule with half-Möbius topology

This paper demonstrates that state-of-the-art superconducting quantum processors, utilizing the SqDRIFT algorithm, can reliably simulate the electronic structure of a half-Möbius topology molecule with active spaces up to 50 orbitals (100 qubits), marking a significant step toward practical large-scale quantum chemistry applications.

Samuele Piccinelli, Stefano Barison, Alberto Baiardi, Francesco Tacchino, Jascha Repp, Igor Rončevic, Florian Albrecht, Harry L. Anderson, Leo Gross, Alessandro Curioni, Ivano Tavernelli2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Approximate QCAs in one dimension using approximate algebras

This paper demonstrates that in one dimension, every approximate quantum cellular automaton on a finite system can be rounded to an exact quantum cellular automaton with nearly identical local action, thereby proving that approximate QCAs are classified by the same index as exact ones through a novel local construction based on robust subalgebra intersections and Kitaev's rigidity theorem.

Daniel Ranard, Michael Walter, Freek Witteveen2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Integrability of Goldilocks quantum cellular automata

This paper demonstrates that a specific subclass of Goldilocks quantum cellular automata is integrable and mappable to free fermions through two distinct proofs, enabling classical simulation and providing a tunable parametric circuit for testing quantum hardware, while contrasting these with typically non-integrable variants that still conserve a quantity useful for error mitigation.

Logan E. Hillberry, Lorenzo Piroli, Eric Vernier, Nicole Yunger Halpern, Tomaž Prosen, Lincoln D. Carr2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

Table-top nanodiamond interferometer enabling quantum gravity tests

This paper presents a feasibility study for a table-top nanodiamond interferometer that utilizes quantum superpositions of massive objects and small-range electromagnetic fields to enable more accessible and resource-efficient experimental tests of the quantum nature of gravity.

Marta Vicentini, Ettore Bernardi, Matteo Bordin, Ekaterina Moreva, Fabrizio Piacentini, Carmine Napoli, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Alessandra Manzin, Marco Genovese2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph