@inproceedings{Ghad2609:Scheduling,

title = {Scheduling Under Stochastic Control Drift in a Room-Temperature NV-Center Quantum Processor},

author = {Sakineh Ghaderi and Abdelkrim Menina and Leon Röscher and Talía L. M. Lezama and Riccardo Bassoli and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-09-13},

urldate = {2026-09-01},

booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE26), IEEE Quantum Week 2026},

address = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Ghad2606:Restricted,

title = {Restricted Energy Accounting of Delivered Entanglement in NV-Center 

Repeater Chains: Exact Single-Hop Dynamics and Reduced-Order 

Multi-Hop Scaling},

author = {Sakineh Ghaderi and Talía L. M. Lezama and Bassem Arar and Muhammad Idham Habibie and Riccardo Bassoli and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-06-01},

booktitle = {European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026)},

pages = {6},

address = {Rimini, Italy},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Rosc2606:Two,

title = {Two-Qubit Implementation of QAOA for MAX-CUT on an NV-Center 

Quantum Processor},

author = {Leon Röscher and Talía L. M. Lezama and Luca Cimino and Jonah Hofe and Riccardo Bassoli and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-06-01},

booktitle = {European Wireless 2026 (EW 2026)},

pages = {6},

address = {Rimini, Italy},

abstract = {We report a proof-of-principle implementation of the quantum approximate 

optimization algorithm (QAOA) for the smallest nontrivial MAX-CUT instance 

on an NV-center-based quantum processor operating at room temperature. The 

two-qubit register is encoded in the electron spin and the 

(^14mathrmN) nuclear spin of a single NV(^-) center. Using a 

minimization formulation of MAX-CUT, we implement a single-layer QAOA 

ansatz with native entangling and single-qubit control operations. Because 

the optical readout of the NV(^-) center is not projective in the 

computational basis, we reconstruct computational-basis populations from 

averaged fluorescence signals and use them to determine the experimental 

QAOA cost landscape by scanning the variational parameters. These results 

show that the core elements of QAOA can be realized on this platform and 

establish a baseline for future improvements in phase tracking, 

coherence-preserving control, and scaling to larger problem sizes.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{HOFFMANN2026:Building,

title = {Building Bridges to the Quantum Future: Early Results from a Mentoring Program for the Emerging Quantum Workforce},

author = {Vivian Hoffmann and Jessica Gollmann and Lisa Küssel and Riccardo Bassoli and Holger Boche and Frank H. P. Fitzek},

url = {https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2026.0607},

doi = {10.21125/inted.2026.0607},

issn = {2340-1079},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-03-01},

urldate = {2026-03-01},

booktitle = {INTED2026 Proceedings},

publisher = {IATED},

address = {Valencia, Spain},

series = {20th International Technology, Education and Development Conference},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}