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Quantum Hardware Advances Enable Complex Condensed Matter Simulations

This review details advancements in quantum hardware for simulating condensed matter physics, covering phenomena like strong correlation, topology, and non-equilibrium dynamics. It primarily examines gate-based digital quantum simulations while noting the role of analog experiments. The survey encompasses various hardware platforms and highlights how current noisy simulations are vital for developing techniques for future fault-tolerant quantum simulations.

Training-Free Global-Local Trajectory Reduction Accelerates 3D PET Diffusion Denoising by an Order of Magnitude

This paper introduces a training-free acceleration framework for 3D diffusion models applied to low-count PET denoising. The authors propose a global skipping strategy that initializes reverse diffusion from an intermediate step via a noise-consistent transformation, plus a local feature reuse shortcut that reuses slowly-varying U-Net features across neighboring steps. The method achieves over 10x acceleration with improved or comparable reconstruction quality across multiple PET tracers (18F-FDG, 68Ga-DOTATATE, 18F-PSMA), and blinded reader studies confirm enhanced clinical confidence and perceived diagnostic quality.