Quantum Circuit Simulation

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Quantum circuit simulation asks how to reproduce or estimate a circuit’s outputs on classical computers, enabling algorithm development, verification, and planning before or alongside hardware runs. Methods include state-vector and stabilizer simulation, tensor-network contraction and circuit cutting, plus specialized GPU, database, and compiled execution for variational workloads. Benchmarks and learned cost models help predict runtime, memory, and accuracy or select representations and contraction plans based on circuit structure and hardware. No simulator is best across circuit families: entanglement, non-Clifford gates, precision, and depth shape classical difficulty, while approximations and hardware-aware optimization trade accuracy and generality for speed.

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  1. Fully quantum training of parametric circuits with Quantum Hamiltonian Descent

    Oct 23, 2026Marco Burato, Leonardo BanchiQuantum Circuit OptimizationVariational Quantum Algorithms

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy · INFN Sezione di Firenze, via G. Sansone 1, I-50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

  2. An Efficient Quantum Circuit for Flow Model Execution Using Quantum Neural Networks

    Oct 8, 2026Rui Che, Ludvig af KlintebergQuantum Generative ModelingQuantum Circuit Simulation

    Department of Business and Mathematics, Mälardalen University, Universitetsplan 1, Väster˚as, 721 23, Sweden.

  3. What Does It Cost to Simulate a Quantum Sentence Classifier? An Energy and Compute Perspective on Near-Term QNLP

    Oct 5, 2026Kishlay Kashyap, Sandipan GangulyQuantum NLPQuantum Machine Learning

    Heritage Institute of Technology

  4. QC-Stark: A Multi-Task Benchmark Revealing Capability Dissociations in LLMs Evaluated on Quantum Computing Tasks

    Sep 28, 2026Pranav GuptaLLM EvaluationQuantum Circuit Simulation

    Cisco, 2901 3rd Ave, Suite 600, Seattle, WA 98121, USA

  5. Predicting Resource Efficient Hamiltonian Decomposition for Continuous-Time Quantum Walk Simulations

    Aug 21, 2026Mostafa Atallah, Rebekah Herrman, Zain H. SaleemQuantum Circuit SimulationQuantum Circuit Compilation

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville · Argonne National Laboratory

  6. Learning to Rank Tensor Network Contraction Plans for GPU-Accelerated Quantum Circuit Simulation

    Aug 6, 2026Alfred M. Pastor, Maribel Castillo, Jose M. BadiaTensor NetworksLearning to Rank

    Department of Computer Science, Universitat de València, 46100 Burjassot, Spain · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castelló de la Plana, Spain

  7. RASP-QAOA: Resource-Aware Per-Instance Selection for Exact QAOA Simulation

    Aug 6, 2026Chih-Chung HsuAlgorithm SelectionQuantum Circuit Simulation

    Institute of Smart Industry and Green Energy, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  8. InferQ: A Database-Oriented Benchmark for Quantum Circuits Simulation

    Jul 31, 2026Andrei Ilinescu, Aadi Patwardhan, Rihan HaiBenchmark DesignSynthetic Benchmark Generation

    Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  9. Stacking the Deck: Tunable Trainability in Stacked LCUs

    Jul 27, 2026Nikhil Khatri, Stefan Zohren, Gabriel MatosBarren PlateausQuantum Circuit Simulation

    Machine Learning Research Group, University of Oxford, United Kingdom · 2Quantinuum, London, United Kingdom

  10. Entanglement geometry separates circuit cutting, classical hardness, and trainability

    Jul 20, 2026Maria Gragera Garces, Sabina Drăgoi, Lirandë PiraTensor NetworksQuantum Circuit Simulation

    Quantum Software Lab University of Edinburgh, UK · ETH ZÜrich, ZÜrich, Switzerland IBM Research, RÜschlikon, Switzerland · Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  11. VQCSim: When Does Compile-Once Statevector Simulation Beat Generic Quantum Frameworks?

    Jul 13, 2026Anton Firc, Martin Perešíni, Vojtěch Mrázek +7GPU AccelerationHybrid Quantum-Classical ML

    EvoAI Hardware Group, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic · eBRAIN Lab, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE · Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (CQTS), NYUAD Research Institute, NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  12. A Novel Parallel QCNN Architecture with Efficient Classical Simulability

    Jul 9, 2026Lawrence Nguyen, Hiu Yung WongQuantum Convolutional Neural NetworksQuantum Circuit Simulation

    Department of Electrical Engineering San Jos´e State University San Jos´e, USA

  13. Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Quantum Reasoning

    Jun 20, 2026Katherine Ip, Casey R. Myers, Udaya Parampalli +2LLM Fine-TuningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia · School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA, 6009, Australia · Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, 1 Bryce Avenue, Kensington WA, 6151, Australia +1

  14. Family-Aware Residual Architecture for Predicting Quantum Circuit Simulation Performance

    Jun 10, 2026Honjar Xing, Yehong Jiang, Xianbang Wang +2Tensor NetworksQuantum Circuit Simulation

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA