Computing Green's functions and improving ground state energy estimation on quantum computers with Liouvillian recursion

This paper presents a noise-robust, quantum-classical hybrid algorithm using Liouvillian recursion to compute many-body Green's functions on near-term quantum hardware, which subsequently enables more accurate ground state energy estimation via the Galitskii-Migdal formula than direct Hamiltonian expectation values.

Jérôme Leblanc, Olivier Nahman-Lévesque, Julien Forget, Thomas Lepage-Lévesque, Simon Verret, Alexandre Foley2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Nonreciprocal transparency windows, Fano resonance, and slow/fast light in a membrane-in-the-middle magnomechanical system induced by the Barnett effect

This paper theoretically demonstrates that a hybrid cavity magnomechanical system comprising two YIG spheres and a central membrane, influenced by the Barnett effect, can generate multiple transparency windows, tunable Fano resonances, and controllable slow/fast light transitions while achieving nonreciprocal absorption and group delay through photon-phonon-magnon interactions.

M. Amghar, M. Amazioug2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

MQED-QD: An Open-Source Package for Quantum Dynamics Simulation in Complex Dielectric Environments

This paper introduces MQED-QD, an open-source package that integrates macroscopic quantum electrodynamics with classical electromagnetic solvers to simulate exciton dynamics in complex dielectric and plasmonic environments, demonstrating how silver nanorods enhance long-range interactions and exciton delocalization compared to planar geometries.

Guangming Liu, Siwei Wang, Hsing-Ta Chen2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Extending spin-lattice relaxation theory to three-phonon processes

This paper extends first-principles spin-lattice relaxation theory to include three-phonon processes, demonstrating that while these contributions are negligible for the studied Chromium nitride complex under experimental conditions—thereby validating the weak coupling assumption—the framework reveals that slightly stronger coupling could make three-phonon effects significant at room temperature.

Nilanjana Chanda, Alessandro Lunghi2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Generalized matching decoders for 2D topological translationally-invariant codes

This paper introduces a graph-matching decoding framework for general two-dimensional topological translationally-invariant codes that coarse-grains syndromes into effective toric code excitations, proving it corrects errors up to a constant fraction of the code distance and achieves non-zero thresholds while demonstrating performance comparable to state-of-the-art decoders for bivariate bicycle codes.

Shi Jie Samuel Tan, Ian Gill, Eric Huang, Pengyu Liu, Chen Zhao, Hossein Dehghani, Aleksander Kubica, Hengyun Zhou, Arpit Dua2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Recursive Magic State Distillation on the Surface Code

This paper proposes a recursive implementation of 15-to-1 magic state distillation using lattice surgery on the surface code to reduce resource overhead for preparing T|T\rangle and CCZ|CCZ\rangle states, while noting that achieving output error rates comparable to the logical code requires a physical error threshold significantly lower than that of the underlying surface code.

Jonathan E. Moussa2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Decay Rates in Interleaved Benchmarking with Single-Qubit References

This paper establishes a rigorous theoretical foundation for using single-qubit reference sequences in cross-entropy benchmarking by deriving a refined analytical expression that corrects systematic overestimations, thereby enabling reliable and high-precision characterization of multi-qubit entangling gates on superconducting quantum processors.

Ilya A. Simakov, Arina V. Zotova, Tatyana A. Chudakova, Alena S. Kazmina, Artyom M. Polyanskiy, Nikolay N. Abramov, Mikhail A. Tarkhov, Alexander M. Mumlyakov, Igor V. Trofimov, Nikita Yu. Rudenko, Maxim V. Chichkov, Vladimir I. Chichkov, Grigoriy S. Mazhorin2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Constant depth magic state cultivation with Clifford measurements by gauging

This paper proposes a constant-depth magic state cultivation protocol for color codes that utilizes gauging to perform logical XSXS^\dagger measurements, achieving high logical error rates with reduced circuit depth compared to previous methods, albeit at the cost of scalability due to the reliance on post-selection rather than full error correction.

Bence Hetényi, Benjamin J. Brown, Dominic. J. Williamson2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Local strategies are pretty good at computing Boolean properties of quantum sequences

This paper demonstrates that simple local measurement strategies, specifically the greedy approach, are provably optimal for computing global Boolean properties of quantum sequences if and only if the target function is affine, while also guaranteeing a universal performance bound that remains competitive with unrestricted global measurements even under severe memory constraints.

Tathagata Gupta, Ankith Mohan, Shayeef Murshid, Vincent Russo, Jamie Sikora, Alice Zheng2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Heuristics for Shuttling Sequence Optimization for a Linear Segmented Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

This paper presents a heuristic algorithm for qubit mapping and shuttling sequence optimization in linear segmented trapped-ion quantum computers, demonstrating that it reduces the number of required ion displacements—which scale polynomially with qubit count—and that utilizing multiple interaction zones further minimizes qubit reordering overhead.

J. Durandau, C. A. Brunet, F. Schmidt-Kaler, U. Poschinger, F. Mailhot, Y. Bérubé-Lauzière2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Spatiotemporal Pauli processes: Quantum combs for modelling correlated noise in quantum error correction

This paper introduces Spatiotemporal Pauli Processes (SPPs), a scalable framework that maps arbitrary non-Markovian quantum dynamics to efficient multi-time Pauli trajectories via process-separable combs, enabling the diagnosis and simulation of correlated noise that can cause catastrophic breakdowns in quantum error correction thresholds.

John F Kam, Angus Southwell, Spiro Gicev, Muhammad Usman, Kavan Modi2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph