Quantum-based self-attention mechanism for hardware-aware differentiable quantum architecture search (opens in new tab)

Author(s): Yuxiang Liu, Sixuan Li, Fanxu Meng, Zaichen Zhang, and Xutao YuThe automated design of parameterized quantum circuits for variational algorithms in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era faces a fundamental limitation, as conventional differentiable architecture searches rely on classical models that fail to represent quantum gate interactions adequate…[Phys. Rev. Applied 25, 064053] Published Tue Jun 16, 2026