Gergana V. Velikova

Dominik Seitz, Niklas Heim, João P. Moutinho et al.

Digital-analog quantum computing (DAQC) is an alternative paradigm for universal quantum computation combining digital single-qubit gates with global analog operations acting on a register of interacting qubits. Currently, no available open-source software is tailored to express, differentiate, and execute programs within the DAQC paradigm. In this work, we address this shortfall by presenting Qadence, a high-level programming interface for building complex digital-analog quantum programs developed at Pasqal. Thanks to its flexible interface, native differentiability, and focus on real-device execution, Qadence aims at advancing research on variational quantum algorithms built for native DAQC platforms such as Rydberg atom arrays.

Callum Duffy, Smit Chaudhary, Gergana V. Velikova

This study introduces growth-based training strategies that incrementally increase parameterized quantum circuit (PQC) depth during training, mitigating overfitting and managing model complexity dynamically. We develop three distinct methods: Block Growth, Sequential Feature Map Growth, and Interleave Feature Map Growth, which add reuploader blocks to PQCs adaptively, expanding the accessible frequency spectrum of the model in response to training needs. This approach enables PQCs to achieve more stable convergence and generalization, even in noisy settings. We evaluate our methods on regression tasks and the 2D Laplace equation, demonstrating that dynamic growth methods outperform traditional, fixed-depth approaches, achieving lower final losses and reduced variance between runs. These findings underscore the potential of growth-based PQCs for quantum scientific machine learning (QSciML) applications, where balancing expressivity and stability is essential.